Family of Virginia Giuffre, accuser of former Prince Andrew, react to his arrest
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What was the family reaction to Prince Andrew's arrest?
The U.S. military deployed on the streets of America. Whole communities targeted for removal.
And when accountability finally came knocking, the Burn Order to cover it all up. It was one of those days when it would have been basically impossible for you to have missed the news. I mean, it doesn't matter what you were doing today or how busy you were. You're probably pretty busy. It was one of those things that was on every phone and TV screen and every text, probably when you woke up this morning. That's what I learned. And it was on every text chain really around the world. And I'm, of course, talking about the arrest of the former Prince Andrew today in the United Kingdom. He's not known as the prince anymore, but you know who I'm talking about. Now, what you may not know are the details of the decades-long fight that led to this moment, a fight that started in so many ways with the bravery of one woman, the late Virginia Roberts Dufresne.
And I'm Really am honored, as I just mentioned to Jacob, that members of her family agreed to join me and talk about this tonight. Imagine your reaction. Imagine their reaction to seeing this news. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries is also going to join me in studio tonight. I have a million questions for him. I'm sure you do, too. And Congressman Ro Khanna is also going to be with us. And there is a lot to talk with him about, because the other huge piece of news today was that the House Oversight Committee released the video of the full, nearly five-hour-long deposition of Les Wexner they conducted yesterday. Now, Wexner has denied all wrongdoing, but he was one of Epstein's biggest financial benefactors.
And Virginia Dufresne testified that she was sexually trafficked to him multiple times. So keep that just in your mind, sitting in your mind, when you listen to what he had to say about whether law enforcement had ever reached out to him about his relationship with Epstein or any of these accusations.
Did the FBI or Department of Justice ever directly speak to you about Epstein or Maxwell? Has the FBI or DOJ ever directly contacted you or spoken to you about Epstein or Maxwell? Never. Just to clarify, did you speak to any law enforcement agency of any kind regarding Jeffrey Epstein's investigation in New York in 2019? No.
Never.
No, I don't remember ever talking to any law enforcement agency. And just to be clear, you never formally interviewed with anyone from the FBI or Department of Justice about Jeffrey Epstein or his criminal investigation in 2019? Never.
Yeah, just to clarify, just to be clear, for good reason, they kept asking him this question. And his answer was never. Les Wexner says that nobody at the FBI or the Department of Justice ever interviewed him about Jeffrey Epstein. They never even contacted him. Now, if that is true, that is a scandal on a number of levels, but chief among them is that last July, the Justice Department and the FBI put out this letter saying, quote, as part of our commitment to transparency, the Department of Justice and the FBI have conducted an exhaustive review of investigative holdings relating to Jeffrey Epstein. And then that letter concluded, and here's the key part, we did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.
Now, the Justice Department claimed they had looked into the Epstein case and determined there was no there there. No more work to be done. Nothing to see. Case closed here. That was last July. Now, it has always been completely shady that this Department of Justice not only refused to release the Epstein files when they promised to, which was for a long time, but then when Congress passed a law compelling them to release those files, they have, of course, failed to abide by that, too. And we know why. I mean, for the first time in modern American history, the president of the United States is openly and forcefully exerting control over the Department of Justice. And don't just take my word for it.
Well, we can see it with our own eyes.
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