Situation Room
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Sep 24, 2026
Marina HydeHOST
But look, I know what you might be thinking.
Marina HydeHOST
Is all this unfair? I mean, they're only on a flipping chat show, aren't they? The trouble is that there are so few of these sorts of moments in the obsessively controlled world of contemporary showbiz that we are left with the somewhat absurd situation of twats like me remorselessly analyzing this tiny clip like we're huddled in the White House Situation Room, watching live footage of some SEAL team raid on a stronghold and holding our breath for the kill order.
Marina HydeHOST
And yet, this one proves no less satisfying each time you see it.
Marina HydeHOST
Ladies and gentlemen, she got him.
John KirbyGUEST
And you're right.
John KirbyGUEST
The White House Situation Room runs 24-7.
John KirbyGUEST
So they would have had access to the knowledge of this and could have started the process in the wee hours.
John KirbyGUEST
I think it says two things.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Just as alarming, more than a thousand women and girls were abused, yet no one beyond Epstein and his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been prosecuted.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Rather than pursuing leads, beyond his interview with Maxwell or prosecuting anyone else, then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch appears to have been huddled in the White House Situation Room, helping manage the political and public relations fallout from the release of the Epstein files.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Instead of clandestine meetings, How about you pursue Jeffrey Epstein's associates? How about we go after the NPA? How about we go after the people that helped him violate that NPA? Any interest in that, Todd baby Billy Blanche, or not? Taken together, the failures paint a deeply troubling picture.
Bobby CapucciHOST
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi testified to a congressional committee that Blanche was in charge of the Epstein files release.
Lisa RubinGUEST
This may be one of the first instances I can think of, though, Katie, where the judge's order is so clear and unambiguous and the administration nonetheless thumbs its nose at it or at least appears to do so for a series of several hours when they could have taken steps differently.
Lisa RubinGUEST
John Kirby was on earlier today with me and said, look, the White House Situation Room is operational 24-7.
Lisa RubinGUEST
Somebody could have notified the press operations that they should have started restoring passes sooner than 7-something this morning.
Lisa RubinGUEST
The decision came down at 1.30.
Bill HandelHOST
See, I don't buy that at all, because to say there is a bunker underneath the White House, there already is one.
Bill HandelHOST
The Situation Room in that area is in there.
Bill HandelHOST
And I don't buy that's national security for the United States, people in the United States to know there is a bunker.
Bill HandelHOST
They were going to keep that top secret.
Mosheh OinounouHOST
Traveling with him that morning, he talks to us about what they briefed on that morning and then what unfolded over the course of that day and the weeks and months that followed as the country came under attack and the U.S. responded.
Mosheh OinounouHOST
Ten years later, Michael Morell also happened to be in the Situation Room with then-President Obama as the administration debated whether Osama bin Laden was really hiding inside that building in Pakistan and whether to launch the raid that would ultimately kill him.
Mosheh OinounouHOST
At that point, Morell was deputy director of the CIA.
Mosheh OinounouHOST
I have jokingly called Michael the Forrest Gump of the war on terror because he was there in person with the presidents during some of the most defining moments from intelligence warnings before 9-11 to 9-11 to the wars that then followed in Afghanistan, Iraq, as well as the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
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Mosheh OinounouHOST
Yeah, I mean, it's and it's difficult, right, because you don't know what you don't know.
Mosheh OinounouHOST
History unfolded in a certain way.
Mosheh OinounouHOST
And history would bring you back to the situation room in late April, early May 2011.
Mosheh OinounouHOST
It's remarkable.
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Director Patel still has not responded to our letter from more than a year ago asking about his personal role in this cover-up.
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But we now know that Director Patel reportedly joined in a meeting at the White House Situation Room about how to protect the president from fallout
Kash PatelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
from this cover-up of the Epstein files.
Kash PatelSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We will always investigate victims of human trafficking, as you have seen by the fact that we have arrested over 5,000 child predators and human traffickers, which is the largest number in an 18-month span.
Pamela BrownHOST
I'm Pamela Brown.
Pamela BrownHOST
Wolf Blitzer is off and you're in the Situation Room.
speaker_5UNKNOWN
This is CNN Breaking News.
Pamela BrownHOST
Happening now, CNN is joining forces with MSNOW and Politico and have filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the Trump administration, specifically the president's decision to ban the three news outlets from access to the White House.
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Kylie AtwoodCORRESPONDENT
Pam.
Pamela BrownHOST
All right, Kylie Atwood, thank you so much.
Pamela BrownHOST
And still ahead here in the Situation Room, a shooting near a synagogue in Ontario as the community gathered for Holy Day.
Pamela BrownHOST
What we're learning about the incident.
Jeffrey RobinsonGUEST
There's nobody in the sky to tell them where else anybody is.
Jeffrey RobinsonGUEST
What happened was a phone call comes into the Situation Room in the White House, and the words are, Angel is next.
Jeffrey RobinsonGUEST
Now, Angel is the code word for Air Force One.
Jeffrey RobinsonGUEST
The Secret Service agent who got it in the sit room now reports it to the PEOC, and it was one of the two people I spoke to who answered the phone and is told, Angel is next.
Scott UrbachGUEST
Here's the National Security Agency if I needed to reach out to them.
Scott UrbachGUEST
Here's one for the White House Situation Room.
Scott UrbachGUEST
Send my voice to my wife or my daughters or my son or something like that and make it sound like I'm under duress and send money to this location.
Scott UrbachGUEST
And that happens constantly.
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Scott UrbachGUEST
You know, the office of the secretary of defense, um, and I'll skip to the ones that you guys will want to see.
Scott UrbachGUEST
I've got one here for the, uh, here's the, the national security agency.
Scott UrbachGUEST
If I needed to reach out to them and then way back here, uh, Here's one for the White House Situation Room.
Scott UrbachGUEST
So it's something that I'd forgotten I even had until you sent me that question.
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