And for more, we're joined now by two women who traveled to Washington to advocate for Epstein survivors.

Liz Stein is an Epstein survivor. She's now an advocate and educator working to combat human trafficking nationwide.

And Jennifer Freeman is special counsel for the Marsh Law Firm, which represents a number of Epstein survivors.

Thank you both for being here.

Good to be with you. And Liz, I'll start with you. As I mentioned, you are among the survivors now speaking out.

What do you hope to accomplish by sharing your story publicly?

I think that what we accomplished today is something that we haven't been able to accomplish so far.

I think that a lot of the survivors have told their

stories in different ways. And we've been telling our stories all the way back to 1996 when

Maria Farmer first reported what was happening with Epstein. So we've been telling our stories

for years, but we've been telling them individually.

And bringing us all together today for the rally and the press conference really gave us a sense of unity and a sense that our collective voices couldn't be ignored.

A sense of unity. The Epstein case has fueled conspiracy theories. It's fueled political fights. The president

today referred to it as a democratic hoax. What does it feel like as a survivor to see your

lived trauma reduced to political fodder? Well, I think it's important for people to understand

that this is not a political issue.

This is a crime, and the crime is sex trafficking.

And so to have, we had 20 Epstein survivors gathered today.

To have so many women coming forward with similar stories.

We don't know each other. We've never met each other most of us, yet we have this commonality, and it's being ignored and downplayed.

The amount of emotional turmoil that you go through in coming out and telling your story,

the risk to your safety, your life changes forever when you become public.

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