Federal Cover-Ups and AI Power Grabs Exposed | Alex Newman

February 17, 2026·46 min·4 clips

Alex Newman reveals the Epstein files provide smoking gun evidence of a global blackmail operation involving intelligence agencies.

The cold open begins with ads, then moves into warnings about hidden power, infiltration, intimidation, and self appointed truth arbiters. The guest names the deep state directly. He says intelligence agencies do the dirty operational work, including blackmail, drug trafficking, gun running, overthrowing governments, and collecting dirt on people. Then he draws the line he wants listeners to notice. In his view, conservatives often treat the intelligence agencies as the top of the structure, when they are tools for richer and harder to see actors. Epstein becomes the example. The guest uses him to trace power upward from agencies toward financial networks. The Trilateral Commission comes up early. The guest says a new document dump includes material about Epstein's involvement with the trilaterals, including David Rockefeller asking him to join. From there, the frame gets wider. Rockefeller is treated as one of the money men behind the machinery, not just another political name. The Rothschild family gets pulled in too. The guest describes them as a pinnacle of banking and financial power, then connects them to the start of George Soros' career. The biggest claim is the payment. He points to a $25 million payment from the Rothschild group to Epstein, described in emails as risk assessment work. He does not accept that explanation. The argument is serious, suspicious, and broad, moving from references that sound document based into sweeping claims about hidden power. By the end, Epstein is presented less as an intelligence operative than as someone near the people the guest believes own and direct intelligence power.

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A blunt, conspiracy-minded conversation about power and influence, with a steady skeptical edge.

Jeff Dornick gives his guest room to build a broad case about hidden power, intelligence agencies, and the money networks he puts above them. The pace stays brisk, and the host keeps circling back to power and influence instead of letting the discussion drift.

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