Hello and welcome to news hour from the BBC World Service coming to you live from London with me John Donison and we're going to start the program with the breaking news that's coming out of the United States our millions of listeners there I'm sure have been waking up to it dominating the airwaves house Democrats in Washington have released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein Suggested that Donald Trump knew more about the financiers sexual abuse than he has so far acknowledged and claimed that the now press President had spent hours at my house,
that's Mr Epstein's house, with one of his victims.
President Trump has denied any involvement in or knowledge of the sex trafficking activities of his former friend who died by suicide in federal prison in 2019
as he was awaiting trial.
Well, Michael Gold of The New York Times has been telling me the details.
So, yeah, these emails are coming, I should say, as the House returns to session.
And it seemed designed to thrust the Epstein issue back into the national conversation.
But these emails all are from Jeffrey Epstein, two associates of him.
One is to Ghislaine Maxwell, his longtime confidant, who's currently serving a 20-year sentence.
And in that email, Epstein calls Trump the dog that hasn't parked.
And that's the one where he says he spent hours with this victim,
who the emails do not identify, I should say.
Any response from the White House yet?
Probably not nothing from the White House yet Republicans on the Oversight Committee, though,
did issue a statement accusing Democrats, essentially,
of cherry-picking and creating a fake narrative to slander President Trump.
And we should say, I just want to be very clear,
that the president and the White House have emphatically denied that he had any knowledge of Epstein's sex trafficking scheme,
or that he had any involvement in any wrongdoing by him or Delaney Maxwell.
And, well, you've got the morning shows on in the States at the moment.