From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is the Daily.

In the week since the Justice Department released millions of documents in the Epstein files,

executives have lost their companies, lawyers have resigned, but it was unclear who, if anyone, would face any kind of legal

consequence. That changed on Thursday when Andrew Mountbatten, Windsor, the former Prince Andrew,

Duke of York, was arrested in England. But the former prince may never face legal accountability

for many of the criminal allegations that have

dogged him for years. Today, my colleagues Michael Shear and Nicholas Confessore

explain why the former prince was arrested, how the blast radius for this scandal has widened,

and why, to many people, consequences still feel so elusive.

It's Friday, February 20th.

So, Michael, we are here to talk to you today because it feels like arguably one of the biggest shoes to drop has happened in the

Jeffrey Epstein scandal. And specifically, we're talking about Andrew Mountbatten, Windsor,

formerly known as Prince Andrew of the British Royal Family. He was arrested. Tell us what happened

and what he was arrested for. You're right. It was really an explosive moment here in Britain where the

public has been following Andrew's travails for a long time. At 8 o'clock in the morning, police

arrived at the Sandringham estate, which is a country estate favored by the king and many members of

his family, and they arrested, Andrew, they arrested the former

prince, took him into custody under suspicion of what they called misconduct in public office.

And what does that mean?

What that basically means is that when you were serving in public office, you did something wrong.

You broke the law as part of your duties,

your official duties.

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