DOJ Letter To Congress Lists Hundreds Of Prominent People Named In Epstein Files
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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| 0:32.4 | An agonizing weight for DNA test results in the Guthrie case. |
| 0:36.9 | The lead starts right now. The glove that could |
| 0:41.8 | give investigators a new break in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. DNA testing is happening now |
| 0:48.9 | as today's show anchor Savannah Guthrie issues a new plea to the person who took her mother. |
| 0:56.0 | And more members of the royal family wrapped up in the Epstein files, how the daughters |
| 1:02.0 | of the former Prince Andrew were mentioned. |
| 1:05.0 | Plus, tracing the toxin used to kill Alexi Navalny, one of Vladimir Putin's most vocal critics, the lethal weapon of |
| 1:13.5 | choice, poison from a tropical frog. We're going to have the new report. |
| 1:23.1 | Welcome to the lead. I'm Dana Bash in for Jake Tapper. The lead tonight, the Pima County Sheriff officially declaring the entire Guthrie family not suspects in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. |
| 1:37.1 | The 84-year-old mother of today's show, anchor Savannah Guthrie, has now been missing for 16 days. Last seen and taken from, it appears, |
| 1:46.0 | her home in Tucson, Arizona. The sheriff Chris Nannos putting to rest remaining speculation |
| 1:53.0 | from the public and some in the media saying in a statement, the family, quote, |
| 1:58.0 | including siblings and spouses are cleared as possible suspects and have been cooperative and gracious and are victims in this case to suggest otherwise it's not only wrong, it is cruel. |
| 2:12.6 | As the investigation heads into its third week, a source familiar tells CNN authorities have still not zeroed in on a leading motive for the suspect. The FBI is now analyzing DNA from a glove found just two miles from Nancy Guthrie's home. The FBI says this glove appears to match what the suspect wore when seen here, tampering with Nancy Guthrie's doorbell camera |
| 2:35.7 | before her disappearance on February 1st. |
| 2:39.2 | Today, President Trump told the New York Post the abductors would face very, very severe |
| 2:45.2 | consequences if Guthrie is found dead, even threatening the death penalty. |
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