Ross Douthat

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293 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 2 Dec

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The Ezra Klein Show · Interesting Times: She Exposed Epstein and Shares MAGA’s Anger · 2 Dec 2025 podcast

Which is, what do you think, if anything, the government has in its possession, the Department of Justice or anyone else that could shed further light on this case? matched

When people talk about the Epstein files, right, this kind of term of art that gets thrown around, some of what you're suggesting sounds more like you think the government needs to, you know, look at material that it already has, but effectively create a new set of Epstein files. matched

Well, we don't know. matched

We're going to go digging and find new information. matched

But do we matched

And when you say things could be released that wouldn't be appropriate, that means that there's a set of information and material that involves both victims and maybe alleged perpetrators, matched

also just people who are connected to Epstein, right? matched

some of that that presumably can't be released without betraying the victims themselves, right? matched

And some of that you wouldn't want to release because you'd be effectively releasing people matched

hearsay and rumor about public figures who haven't actually been charged with a crime. matched

Right. matched

Those seem like both impediments to some kinds of release that people want. matched

Are there similar files from the 2018 ish investigation that that could be that could be released? matched

were a group of powerful men who abused women together with Epstein who have gotten away with it, why wouldn't Maxwell have given up some of those men for the sake of some kind of plea bargain? matched

But why does Maxwell, we're going to end with Trump, but why would Maxwell care about giving up a powerful Democratic or Republican donor if it would buy her time off prison? matched

working. matched

We're working on getting her on the podcast. matched

no one. matched

Yeah. matched

So if her lawyers had offered, they would have just said, no, thanks. matched

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