Epstein ‘birthday book’; ICE raids in Chicago; ‘kissing bug’ disease; Banksy; and more
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🗓️ 9 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Lawmakers released a note that President Trump allegedly wrote to Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 0:08.3 | That's where we're starting The Seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:12.1 | I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Tuesday, September 9th. |
| 0:15.6 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:25.8 | Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee released hundreds of pages of documents from the estate of the late sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. Among them were a redacted |
| 0:32.4 | version of a birthday book that was allegedly gifted to Epstein on his 50th birthday in 2003, |
| 0:39.3 | containing messages from high-profile friends. Those friends allegedly included President |
| 0:45.6 | Donald Trump. In July, the Wall Street Journal reported that there was a sketch and a note |
| 0:51.5 | from the president in this book. White House officials denied |
| 0:55.3 | it existed, but now we can see it. The sketch is of a nude female form and imagines a fictional |
| 1:02.8 | dialogue between Trump and Epstein. It includes the lines, we have certain things in common, |
| 1:09.9 | enigmas never age, and may every day be another |
| 1:14.0 | wonderful secret. The note ends with a handwritten signature and the typed words Donald J. Trump. |
| 1:22.1 | The House committee had subpoenaed Epstein's estate for the documents under pressure from Trump's |
| 1:27.3 | Republican base. |
| 1:29.2 | White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt reacted to yesterday's release by calling the report |
| 1:34.6 | fake news. |
| 1:38.0 | ICE launched an operation targeting immigrants in Chicago. That's number two. For weeks, President Trump has vowed that |
| 1:48.1 | his administration would send federal law enforcement officers to Chicago. Here he is yesterday, |
| 1:54.6 | speaking at the Museum of the Bible in D.C. about Chicago's policy allowing cashless bail, |
| 2:00.7 | a policy Trump disagrees with. |
| 2:02.6 | When you try and reason with people like in Chicago with the governor and the mayor, you try and |
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