Nicholas Confessore

And what is perplexing for a lot of people who are reading these documents is that this Justice Department said we found no evidence of anything that would predicate an investigation for us.

I am not a prosecutor.

I'm not a lawyer.

And I can't see behind those redactions.

When I read these documents, I find that puzzling and challenging.

And even if they are right, even if I, as a reporter, could see behind all the redactions and come to the same conclusion they did with some legal training, you begin to understand why this hunger still exists.

Right, the suspicion.

Why this mystery, the suspicion, the who else is getting away with something?

Why haven't they been punished?

And I think to your point earlier, it just feeds the sense that the people who did bad things are getting away with it.

Even as simultaneously, we see these dominoes falling, as we discussed at the top of the program.

I think the former Prince Andrew is in some ways the exception that proves the rule.

His public association with Epstein as a figure of scandal goes back to 2010.

The story of their friendship and the scandal around it has been unfolding for 16 years.

And he is just now coming under criminal investigation in his home country.

because of an unprecedented political alignment in this country that resulted in the release of all these documents that in turn told us about some other things he did that might be illegal in the UK.

And the fact that it took that long for him to face like a criminal consequence, obviously he was stripped of his title before he fell out of favor, but the length of time before the justice system in his country caught up with him

I think helps explain the pent-up hunger and anger and frustration people have and the reason why the consequences for some other figures who are perhaps less closely tied into his crimes has been severe and rapid.

And yet, at the same time,

I think it also tells us a bit about how hard it is to reach a resolution on this, because the man at the center of it all cannot be brought to justice.