The Young Turks
Feb 13, 2026
Artist Petrina Ryan-Kleid
Ghislaine Maxwell was invited to a "shadow" 9/11 commission, according to the latest release of the Epstein files. Cenk Uygur discusses on The Young Turks.
Transcript
"Look, Cenk, you rail against
mainstream media, legacy media all the
time." But guys, I didn't think that
they were part of an active cover up.
Like, I thought they got all their
framing wrong and it was partly because
of the pressures and the different
things that happened like the
advertisers, a lot of them are
politicians and big pharma and defense
contractors.
I've explained to you all
the things that are wrong with media in
a 100 different ways. But even I didn't
expect this. Wait, there was a shadow
9/11 commission and there's not a single
national media reporter that's
interested in that. I'm not going to be
quiet about this. In the Epstein files,
we find two emails that are
shocking. Now, you're going to say,
"Wait a minute. Aren't all the emails
shocking? I mean, there's missing
babies. There's torture videos that
people are talking about, girls 9, 10,
11. It just couldn't get any worse until
you found these two emails. Now
these are going to make you go, "Wait a
minute. What in the world? And these are
from the Justice Department's website
from the Epstein files, emails actually
sent. So, first one is to Ghislaine Maxwell.
It's from Ed Epstein. Okay. Interesting.
Well, now that's not that surprising
that Ed Epstein would be talking to
Ghislaine Maxwell, but what's interesting is
that's January 6, of 2003,
and the subject is s
"Shadow commission
invitation."
Wait, what? And they say, "Any interest
in being on the shadow commission on
9/11? The membership list is secret at
Epstein."
Wait, there was a shadow commission?
Do we know about that? I don't know
about that. Did you guys know about
that?
And of all people in America, they were
asking Ghislaine Maxwell to be on the
shadow 911 commission.
So, did that exist? What did they
decide? Did they affect the real, not the
real real, the apparently maybe not so
real 9/11 commission, that we were
spoonfed?
And who else was on this secret list
that actually
decided what was going to go in the 911
commission report?
And look guys, at
that point, even if you back in 2003,
you don't know Ghislaine Maxwell's work
with Jeffrey Epstein. Ed Epstein knows
that she's working with Jeffrey Epstein.
And let's say that he somehow
miraculously doesn't know what Jeffrey
and Ghislaine are up to. But Ghislaine
Maxwell is Robert Maxwell's daughter.
Robert Maxwell is not just a generic
Israeli spy. He's the Israeli spy that
stole our nuclear secrets,
and you're going to put her on a secret
9/11 shadow commission?
And so what's amazing, the second email that
I'm going to share with you is arguably
even more amazing.
But how is this not national news
everywhere?
So, what's happened to me in the last
week or so is that my eyes have been
open to how much deception is in
establishment media. And if you watch
the Young Turks regularly, you're going
to say, "Look, Cenk, you rail against
mainstream media, legacy media all the
time." But guys, I didn't think that
they were part of an active cover up.
I thought they got all their
framing wrong, and it was partly because
of the pressures and the different
things that happened, like
advertisers, politicians, big pharma and defense
contractors. I've explained to you all
the things that are wrong with media in
a 100 different ways. But even I didn't
expect this. Wait, there was a shadow
9/11 commission and there's not a single
national media reporter that's
interested in that and has done a story
about it?
Okay, now let me give you the
second email, also to Ghislaine Maxwell, this time from a
guy named Philip Lavine. And god forbid
anybody should ask who he is. This one's
date is even more important. September
18th, 2001, a week after 911.
And the email reads, "Where is the real
pilot?"
Whoa. What is that? "Where's the real pilot?" A week after 911?
And that email is going to Ghislaine Maxwell.
If you don't think this is an
interesting story, you're not a
journalist. If you're covering up the
story, you're not a journalist.
Well, literally no one in corporate
media is covering this. So apparently
there are zero journalists in legacy
media. None.
I mean, but it's beyond
that. There's no one who doesn't think
that this is interesting. It doesn't
mean that you can't disprove it. I
don't know how you would, but
you would do investigative reporting, and you would
try to figure out, "Wait, that's super
interesting. What do they mean real
pilot?" Could it be the biggest
coincidence in human history that they
don't mean 9/11, even though it's a week
after 9/11, and you're emailing
someone who's very very likely an
Israeli spy, but it's a different
pilot from a different plane maybe.
That's when you would have to do
journalism, and you would have to
investigate it, and you would find this
remarkable, and you'd want to look into
what the hell was the shadow commission?
Why is someone asking Ghislaine Maxwell where
the real pilot is? But we've got
literally none of that from our national
media.
So, okay, I mean it forces us to wonder, are you in on
it? I mean, if you had told me even a
week ago, two weeks ago, the entire
national media will find out that 9/11
might not have happened in the way that
we think, and they'll bury it,
even though it's the most
interesting interesting story there is,
what actually happened on 9/11? And
they're like, "Nope, we're not
interested in it." No? Okay. That's full mask off. I don't trust
anyone in national media anymore. And I
don't think it's done at
the reporter level, but the editors, the
publishers, the producers on cable news,
the executives. I mean, is there not a
single journalist who's like, "Guys, we
got to do a report on this?" Well, that
would be remarkable. My guess is
there were at least a couple that were
like, "Can we do a story on this? This
looks like the most remarkable story
we've ever seen." And apparently they
were told, "No, you're not allowed to do
a story on that." That is incredibly
strange.
And so now I said she's almost certainly
an Israeli spy, not just because her dad
was the legendary spy, and not just
because our government seems to be
protecting Israel at every turn. I mean,
again, that is remarkable. Robert
Maxwell steals our nuclear secrets, and
then shares them with the Soviet Union
to get Israel more goodies from the
Soviet Union, and we don't arrest them,
because they say it would cause an
international incident and embarrass the
Israelis? Well, if you steal our nuclear
secrets, of course you should be
embarrassed, and you should be in prison.
We didn't even bother trying to arrest
them.
And then if you look at the
drop site news stories,
Jeffrey Epstein is procuring cyber
weapons for Israel. He's doing a deal
with Russia, Mongolia, African
countries, with Israel. He's
donating to the IDF.
He's got an IDF sweatshirt on. He
goes to Israel, and meets with the
prime minister anytime he wants.
He has the Israeli prime minister stay
at his house 30 times. He has Israeli
spies stay at his house. And not one
national media story about his
connections to Israel and Ghislaine
Maxwell's connections to Israel. I don't
know that a single legacy media outlet
has run a story about who Ghislaine Maxwell's
dad is. Come on! How How is
that not interesting?
No. No. That means you're not in the
news business. You're not trying to
cover the news. You're trying to cover
up the news.
So guys, I don't have all
the answers for you here. These are two
emails that are in the files. But I do
know that I now deeply deeply question
what happened on 9/11. And I said
that online today ,and a whole bunch of
establishment people, mainly Democrats
as far as I could tell, were "How dare you?!
That is it. I'm now cancelling you,
because you are not legitimate
anymore. Hey, waiter. Not legitimate.
Please remove him from the facilities,
brother. I've been cancelled 28
times. Go for it. Get in line.
Okay. I'm not going to be quiet about this. What
do you mean, "Where's the real pilot?"
Is no one going to ask Philip Levine or
Ghislaine Maxwell, what do you mean?
"Where's the real pilot" a week after
9/11? What the hell is the shadow
commission on 911? Who was in it? And
what did you guys decide? And how did
you affect the US government? These are
the most natural questions. If anybody
tells you not to ask those questions,
they work for another government. They
don't work for us. They're not for
America. They're for a different country,
and a country that appears to be
oppressing us.
And even if they didn't do this, and
they certainly did a lot of things that
we've seen in the Epstein files,
keep asking questions. And do not be
afraid to be an American. We have a
right to free speech. We have a right to
our opinions. And we have a right to
fight for this country.
And don't let anybody threaten you, or
intimidate you, or bully you with ideas
of cancellation, and how you'll be
forever seen as illegitimate if you
don't bow your head, and stop asking
questions.
All right. Now, I want to know where is
the real pilot? Who was the real pilot?
And what the hell happened on 911?
These files have been amazing.
And the last thing I'll do is a shout out to
two American heroes, Ro Khanna and Tom
Massie. If it wasn't for them, we would
have never gotten these emails.
I hope that this opens up something
bigger, and we find out what actually
happened. But I guarantee you, our
entire government will try to cover it
up. They've had these emails all along.
They've had them since 2001,
and they covered it up. So our
government is compromised. They're not
on our side. They were hiding the truth
from you. That is indisputable now. And
our media currently as we sit is also
part of the cover up.
So on the Young Turks, and on TYT as a network, we're
never going to let you down. We're going
to give you the honest truth, no matter
what people say about us. No matter what
the rest of the news news media is
doing, we're going to give you the best
we got, and be honest with you no matter
what.
So, these are two real emails in
the Epstein files on the Justice
Department website. You could look it up
yourself. And if you're not asking
questions about 911 after this, well,
you're the kind of sap that the corrupt
people inside the US government, and
potentially inside the Israeli
government love. Do not let them program
you. Do not let them make you bend a
knee and stop asking questions.
Americans have to get together and fight
back politically, and get our government
back.