Jessica Tarlov

Epstein, I don't really know.

And it was a quiet but action-packed week somehow.

Are you still fully on the side that the United States is going to do nothing?

Or is this just going to be like pulling teeth and take several years, but we'll end up getting there?

What are the survivors thinking and feeling right now?

It must be an insanely difficult way to live on top of the trauma of what happened.

And I still feel guilty that we weren't paying attention.

I'm not talking about, like, the government, but that...

Americans were not paying enough attention to a scandal of this level of proportions.

Yeah.

We absolutely have to do better.

Yeah.

I want to shift gears a bit and talk about the government taking steps to pave the way for the merger between Nexstar and Tegna, two broadcast news giants who announced their intention to merge last summer.

It's a $6.2 billion deal, and in order for it to happen, Brendan Carr and the FCC had to waive the so-called 39% rule, which prevented one company from owning TV stations that reach more than 39% of households.

But that's gone now, and Nexstar and its partners will oversee 265 television stations in 44 states and D.C., reaching about 80% of U.S.

households.

What is happening here?

It makes me think about, remember when they started tracking what the anchors were saying on Sinclair local stations and they were all reading the same script?

Is there a way to let's say it goes through?

I understand the eight attorney generals are suing about it, but let's say they find a way to get it through, which is usually the case with things that Donald Trump wants to get done.