ort of like an anti-American block of powers trying to make sure that the US doesn't have all the economic clout and Trump's making sure that they don't go too far by threatening them with tariffs.

Will that work? I don't know. It might. He already scared them off from pursuing a currency that's not the dollar. They were definitely pursuing that and he threatened them and they said, "Oh, we'll put that on hold." So threats do work. We've seen the tariff threat work now a few times, right?

And I guess Trump is now sending out a hundred letters to various countries that did not get a trade deal done with us. And Scott Bessent is framing this rather cleverly. Bessent is really good on the interviews and on the public stuff, but instead of saying, "We gave up on getting deals, so we're just going to send them a letter telling them what they're going to pay in tariffs," he says, "That is the deal." And he's not wrong. No, we have a deal with a hundred countries. There's a hundred countries that had all the time in the world to make a deal with us, and we were willing to make a deal. It didn't happen. So now the new deal is we'll tell them what they're going to pay in tariffs and that's it. That's the deal.

Now if they wanted in the next three weeks because I guess it won't go into effect until August 1st. If they wanted to, the US would say, "Oh, do you want to try to get a proper trade deal that isn't just us charging you more with tariffs?" And we would say yes to that. Yeah, we'll do that. Absolutely. But I love his reframe that instead of failing, so we're just sending them the bill, we have just succeeded, but in a shortcutted way. The shortcut is we don't need a new trade deal. We're just going to sign the bill. That is the new trade deal. I kind of love that. Bessent is really good at framing issues.

And Dana Bash asked Scott Bessent. She goes, "That's not a deal. That's a threat. That the threat would be that they're going to have to pay more in tariffs." And Bessent says, "No, that's the level. That's the deal." Good reframe.

Thailand apparently did come up with a deal. So Thailand negotiated a deal and they're going to import more US natural gas and more of our corn to reduce the trade deficit with Thailand. So that's good. And they offered to cut levies to zero on many US imports, not 100% of them, but many of the important ones. And they said it's not just about reducing tariffs, but also about opening up trade. So there you go. Thailand did the smart thing by negotiating when they had a chance to negotiate. So probably they're getting a better deal than they would have gotten. I hope they did.

All right. You want to talk about Epstein, don't you? So apparently the Justice Department, if you haven't heard this yet, if this is the first time you're hearing this, it's going to make your head explode. But the Justice Department just released a 10-hour video or some say 11-hour video of what they say is Epstein's jail cell to show that nobody went in or out. And therefore they have concluded that he must have taken his own life because there's no video of him going in and out.

Now didn't you understand that there was no video of that? But where did they suddenly come up with some video of that? It wasn't a video of the cell. It was a video of the access to the cell. And then I looked at the video and I said to myself, I don't even know what door this is. I don't know what I'm looking at. What the hell is this? And other people weighed in. And apparently you do not see anything that would tell you whether anybody had access or not. Some of it is because it looks like there's an edit that might have lost a minute. Some of it is it wasn't even looking in the right place. Some of it is if somebody was already in there before the 10-hour video, they could have got it done and then left afterwards. So no, the video that they're showing us has no persuasive value to any of us. If any of that convinced you, no. Because we didn't even get really a straight story about what video existed. And I guess they said that the video cameras didn't work in his cell. Well, that's a pretty big coincidence.

Now one of the possibilities that they didn't look into is that there was somebody already in that general area before the video or even that the video was in the wrong place. Maybe it wasn't even where you could tell if somebody got in there. But so we don't believe that. But it gets better.

Not only has the Justice Department declared that it was definitely a suicide, but the systemic review revealed no incriminating client list. There's no client list. You know how all of us for years have been saying, "Well, why don't you show us the client list?" And now their official pronouncement is there was never a client list. Now that might be true. It might be true there was never a client list. Maybe he didn't write that stuff down. But so there was no murder and there was no client list. And there was also no evidence that he blackmailed prominent individuals. No suicide, no client list, and no evidence that he blackmailed anybody.

Okay. And we did not uncover evidence. This is a Department of Justice. We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties. They didn't find any evidence that would make some non-Epstein person that was involved with him guilty of a crime. Nothing.

Well, End Wokeness, one of my favorite accounts to follow on X, pointed out that in 2019 the FBI raided Epstein's home in New York City, not the island, but his home, and discovered hidden safes with computer discs and stashes of footage. Do you know what happened to all those computer tapes and computer discs? Take a guess. You want to guess? They went missing. Yep. Went missing.

So now we've got the video. The video of a cell was accidentally erased. There were no videos on the island apparently or they went missing. And the ones from his home in New York City, they definitely exist, but then they went missing. So apparently Ghislaine Maxwell got con