Tina Brown

I mean, it was all this.

And I think that the private plane I've decided is the sort of ultimate, you know, origin sin, essentially.

Once you've flown in a private plane, you never want to fly commercial ever again.

People will crawl on glass.

Just to be on that private plane.

And everybody wants to be on the plane.

It was really critically important.

I mean, everybody thinks, you know, Clinton was there for the girls.

Clinton was there for the plane, right?

He needed to get someone to fly him around the world once he'd been the president.

Who's got a plane?

It's available.

And he had one.

And so that was the major thing with Epstein.

Other people just wanted – they thought that he might give them money for their thing.

I mean, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers was in it because they wanted academic grants.

His wife wanted one.

So everybody's got their – he understood that everybody had a weakness, a pulse point that he could sort of tweak in that sense.

The Daily Beast, when I was the editor, you know, we were the first to expose the fact that he got this sweetheart deal in Florida with the DA there who only charged him with harassing one girl, sexually propositioning one young woman, as opposed to the volume of people that we then revealed he had.

He always had incredibly powerful lawyers who, I mean, he really understood how to work the network and he did.