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Epstein Saga Stops Congress in Its Tracks

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ABC News

News, Daily News, Politics

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Pressure from the case of Jeffrey Epstein prompts the House to go on recess early, as the Justice Department seeks to speak with Ghislaine Maxwell. Ukrainians protest president Volodymyr Zelenskyy over a perceived power grab. And rocker Ozzy Osbourne dies at 76. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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sometimes it's better to quit while you're behind. We start here. Congressional Republicans decide to leave town over Jeffrey Epstein.

0:43.3

This is for political games.

0:45.3

Meanwhile, the Trump Justice Department is set to meet with Epstein's convicted co-conspirator.

0:50.3

Ukraine's president has been celebrated for defending democracy. Now his own supporters are furious.

0:57.0

Could Vladimir Zelenskyy lose support at a crucial moment in this war?

1:03.0

And the rock world says farewell to the Great Oz.

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He's like holding up crucifixes and he's got blood running down his throat.

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How Ozzy Osbourne went from Black Mark to cultural touchstone.

1:17.2

From ABC News, this is Start Here. I'm Brad Milky.

1:26.7

So, every day we put the show out and every day I'm like, okay, that is the last time I'm going to mention the name Jeffrey Epstein for a while. There's nothing else there. A guy was a creep while he was alive. He's been dead now almost six years. And yet, new developments keep happening. Not small developments either.

1:44.7

Developments that are putting real pressure on the Trump administration

1:47.4

and therefore on the Justice Department and lawmakers.

1:51.0

We have a moral responsibility to expose the evil of Epstein

1:54.4

and everybody was involved in that.

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