Ghislaine Maxwell, the Epstein Files, and the scandal that won’t go away

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  Hey, Asma, how you doing?

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  Hey there, Tristan.

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  Well, it has been, I will say, an absolutely dizzying week here in Washington.

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  Yeah, it looks a bit like it.

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  The government is finally reopening after the longest shutdown in US history,

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  and Congress's attention is turning back to the Epstein files, which I was interested in.

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  I mean, the story of the Epstein files had frankly been a little bit dormant here in Washington,

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  but on Wednesday, it suddenly exploded again.

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  And the house is is expected to vote next week to release the full files.

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  Well, it's been big news over here in London as well.

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  We saw it pop up when there was this dump of a few emails by Democrats.

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  Could you just explain this to me, please?

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  How did this come about?

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  Yeah,

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  Democrats on this committee in the House released three email exchanges from the estate of the convicted sex offender,

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  Jeffrey Epstein.

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  And those emails kicked off a huge news cycle here

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  because they raised fresh questions about what President Trump may have known about Jeffrey Epstein's behavior.

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  In one of these messages, Epstein writes that,

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  and I'm going to quote here, of course he knew about the girls.

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