Welcome to the Beat. I'm Ari Melbert. We begin tonight with a special report on a story Donald Trump has failed to disappear the secrets of Jeffrey Epstein now exposed in those millions of new files, which journalists and experts, all of us really are still reviewing since Friday's release. But these new files have enabled us to update our legal timeline,

which has reporting from the first 2005 Epstein probe into Epstein, his conspiracies,

his bid to evade justice, and how the long arm of the law did finally catch up with him

before his death in the custody of the Trump DOJ. So in our special

report right now, this timeline, which we've shown you once before with our MS Now reporting,

is updated with the brand new revelations from the new files. Now before I go into this timeline,

I'll just tell you right now what you will see tonight. One, how the Bush DOJ

dropped the tougher possible case against Epstein. Two, how the Trump DOJ identified

Epstein's potential co-conspirators. We'll show you some of them tonight, but then didn't

charge the vast majority of them. Three, how under both parties, the DOJ has clearly failed to follow those leads,

which means the feds had paths to indict and stop this trafficking ring years ago, but they did not.

Four, we'll show you how Trump's administration has top officials who falsely claimed that they had

ended or limited their Epstein contact, and now they have been busted by their newly revealed

emails in their own writing. That includes a Trump official who's still in the cabinet tonight.

And five, we'll show you how the Trump administration lied about these files, fought their release,

broke the law on releasing them, and still faces

questions about what they're hiding and why Donald Trump is so personally haunted by his

own Epstein links, from their own social time together to his government's demonstrated failures

in this case. So, let's look at what we've learned. The very first key Epstein probe began

in Palm Beach in 2005. That put public heat on Epstein in a new way. Trump's current commerce chief,

Howard Lutnik, says that back then is when he cut all ties with Epstein, his one-time neighbor. So we'll return to that

in a moment on this timeline. Now, others have asked why the DOJ didn't nail Epstein men.

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