Judge Pirro asks why Jeffrey Epstein documents were under seal: 'What was the government's benefit?'

Judge Jeanine Pirro reacts after Bill Clinton, Stephen Hawking, David Copperfield appear in Jeffrey Epstein court documents.

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JUDGE JEANINE PIRRO: It was 2011 when Bill Clinton goes into Vanity Fair and threatens them and says, we don't want you to write this story. Here's the important part: it was in 2000 – 2007 that he was convicted in Florida of soliciting a minor for prostitution. So at that point, he was a convicted pedophile, a sex offender. And yet Bill Clinton is still fighting for him. Here's the interesting thing: these names are names that have been out there in the public for a bit, but now there's a little more window dressing that we have. Bill Clinton going in and saying, don't write this story, Vanity Fair. Why? It kind of makes you wonder how he got that great deal from the federal government that gave Epstein and his co-defendants immunity in perpetuity. Was Bill Clinton behind that as well, with the Justice Department taking that case away from the local D.A. and then sending it back after they literally let the statute of limitations run out? 

Fifty times Bill Clinton is mentioned in just these papers alone. Then you've got Stephen Hawking … who even thought about that? … Epstein tells Maxwell, tell the girls that they would pay him whatever we need to pay them to not talk about Stephen Hawking and the sex or orgy with young girls. So then there's even more window dressing. David Copperfield, remember he was accused previously of sexual assault before this. And he says to one of the girls, he said, did you know that you girls are being paid to find other girls? So there's more window dressing that's coming out with this. And every day we're getting more releases. The question is, why were these names sealed? Why didn't we know about it? What was the government's benefit in sealing these names?