From New York, this is Democracy Now.

I was only 14 years old when I met Jeffrey.

I ended up dropping out of high school before ninth grade.

And I never went back.

From 14 to 17 years old, I went and worked for Jeffrey.

I was a 16-year-old high school student athlete who made good graves and had high aspirations for college.

Why was Maxwell the only one held accountable when so many others played a role?

Why does the government hide this information from the public?

This secrecy is not protection. It's complicity.

Survivors of sexual predator, Jeffrey Epstein, held a news conference outside the Capitol

telling their story, showing support for a rare bipartisan bill that would make release of the

Epstein Files law.

The bill was introduced by Republican, Thomassey and Democrat, Rokana.

A nation that allows rich and powerful men to traffic and abuse young girls without consequence

is a nation that has lost its moral and spiritual core.

We'll speak with Congressmember Rokana, as well as Lauren Hirsch of World Without Exploitation,

who organized the testimony of the women.

Then the Trump administration bars the Palestine delegation from entering the United States ahead of the UN General Assembly here in New York.

They have chosen to ban the Palestinian president and his delegation of some 80 diplomats intended to attend the General Assembly.

And doing so at precisely the moment when the UNGA is going

to be taking up a lot of critical discussions around the question of Palestine, the genocide in

Palestine, the two-state solution, multiple recognitions of the state of Palestine. We'll speak with former UN official Craig Mokhyber.

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