Hi, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. A stark split-screen moment unfolded today in the nation's capital.

It was a clarion call for transparency from the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Galane Maxwell,

and it was set against Donald Trump and the Trump administration, whose efforts at providing clarity in the Epstein case

have been disingenuous at best.

Flanked by members of Congress in what is a shockingly rare bipartisan display of consensus these days,

survivors gathered on Capitol Hill this morning and called for the release of the Epstein

files.

They spoke one after the other.

Here's a bit from their accounts.

I met Galane when I was a senior in college.

I was just 21 years old.

Maxwell introduced me to Jeffrey Epstein later on that day.

That evening was the sliding glass doors moment that changed the trajectory of my entire life.

I was once bright, fun, outgoing, and kind. I loved people and people genuinely enjoyed being around me.

But after meeting Jeffrey Epstein and Galane Maxwell,

it felt like someone shut off the lights to my soul.

Gulen, it was your butler that greeted me at the front door of your beautiful home,

and it was your calm, manipulative, and fraudulent demeanor that cultivated my trust.

That coercive system that you have mastered was entirely end-game oriented. And that end-game

was to feed the perversion of you and Jeffrey through sexual violence.

They spoke today. It was part of a public push to have all of the Epstein materials and files released. The petition that would make that happen, that would trigger a vote in Congress

on the bill releasing the Epstein files, at this, just needs the support of two more Republicans.

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