Ben Meiselas (host)

Comes a month before Epstein signed the non-prosecution agreement with the United States attorney, Alex Acosta, who then became Donald Trump's labor secretary in 2019, who was recently deposed by the House Oversight Committee, said that he was unaware of any financial investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, but then of course we learned

that through the suspicious activity reports that have been made public as a result of public records requests by the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, 4,600 SAR suspicious activity reports.

And we also learned that it was about a billion dollar money laundering scam that Epstein was running adjacent to the sex trafficking ring.

So Alex Acosta has a lot of explaining to do himself.

I want to remind you all about this.

What did Ghislaine Maxwell say when she was interviewed by Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney, Todd Blanch, turned number two at the DOJ, the guy who's now part of this emergency meeting in the Oval Office.

Here is what Ghislaine Maxwell said that she never saw Trump act inappropriate with anybody.

Here, play this clip.

She also claimed that she had no recollection about the birthday book that she assembled for Epstein in 2003, where Donald Trump's handwritten birthday note about our enigmas never age or our enigmas always remain secret and secrets stay young forever, whatever that creepy message was.

She says, I don't know anything about it.

Play this clip.

I do not.

And then of course you had Ghislaine Maxwell say, so my father liked him very much and he was loved, really liked his wife as well because we were both Czechoslovakian, referring to Donald Trump's first white Ivana.

As far as I'm concerned, Trump was always very cordial and very kind to me.

And I just want to say that I admire his extraordinary achievements in becoming the president now.

And I like him.

And I've always liked him.

So that is the sum and substance of my entire relationship with him.

Well, Ghislaine, it seems like you lied yet again to federal officers, which should be, in my opinion, another criminal violation.

But we all know the federal judges had previously said that you engaged in