Epstein files: New revelations about Trump
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In a newly released email, a US government investigator says that President Donald Trump flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane many more times than was previously reported. Also: Ukraine says it's suffering widespread power cuts after another night of deadly Russian air attacks; US regulators approve a pill version of the weight loss drug Wegovy; we hear what it's like to have a baby in Bethlehem; and how can you ensure that you'll keep your New Year's resolutions?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Andrew Peach and at 16 hours GMT on Tuesday the 23rd of December. |
| 0:15.5 | These are our main stories. |
| 0:17.4 | The US Justice Department publishes thousands of new files relating to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 0:23.5 | Ukraine says it's suffering widespread power cuts after another night of Russian air attacks. |
| 0:28.9 | Regulators in the US approve a weight loss pill. |
| 0:33.8 | Also in this podcast, the latest on the bidding war for one of Hollywood's oldest studios, Donald Trump's year through the eyes of one of his friends. |
| 0:42.3 | There's mass deportations underway, and a lot of people feel that that might be extreme. |
| 0:48.0 | You want to remove the people that are criminals and gang members, but you don't necessarily want to forcibly remove everybody. |
| 0:55.5 | And how do you stick to New Year's resolutions? |
| 0:58.2 | So a smart use of friction, make it easy to follow through, make it difficult to fail, is the way forward. |
| 1:07.9 | The US Justice Department has released its largest batch yet of files relating to Geoffrey Epstein. |
| 1:14.2 | He was the sex trafficking US financier who befriended a huge number of rich and famous men over the years and who died in prison in 2019. |
| 1:22.7 | Our investigations correspondent Andy Verity is among the BBC team coming through this enormous data dump by the DOJ. |
| 1:29.2 | He's been telling my colleague Tim Franks about the latest revelations. |
| 1:32.9 | The thing that leapt out at me first was an email which indicates that Donald Trump |
| 1:39.2 | travelled many more times on Geoffrey Epstein's private jet than was previously reported. And it reports that he |
| 1:46.1 | flew with Geoffrey Epstein and Gillen Maxwell during the time for which they expected to bring |
| 1:51.4 | charges against her. Now, of course, his presence on the flights doesn't indicate wrongdoing. |
| 1:57.0 | This email was sent on the 7th of January 2020 when he was still in his first term of office. |
| 2:01.8 | Donald Trump is from an assistant US attorney on the team investigating Epstein, |
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