Simon Marks

And certainly this issue of

Precisely what role Jeffrey Epstein was playing behind the scenes in the lives of many wealthy and powerful men is one that is still threatening to touch the White House.

As Bill Gates was testifying there yesterday, the New York Times published a massive investigation, very lengthy piece that I think is appearing in its print edition over the weekend, but was put out online recently.

Claiming that behind the scenes at the White House last summer, there were a series of crisis meetings in the Situation Room chaired by Vice President J.D.

Vance, specifically focused on how the White House was going to crisis manage the Jeffrey Epstein affair and the threat involved.

that it was increasingly posing to the Trump presidency.

So this drumbeat, this percussive drumbeat, continues to be heard in Washington.

This is not a story that in any way is going to go away.

And indeed, one senior Trump official said,

involved in those meetings was quoted as saying to one of those meetings this is going to become donald trump's iran contra that's how seriously they were taking it in the white house at the time all right so there could be more to come simon thank you very much always good to speak to simon marks the chief correspondent with feature story news