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Laura Coates Live

Epstein Survivor: Releasing Files Would Be “Justice For All Of Us”

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie said he and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene “are willing to name names” on any list compiled by survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse. President Donald Trump had earlier dismissed the furor as a “Democrat hoax", even as women who said they’d been abused by Epstein called for action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight, no more talking about or around them.

0:06.5

Jeffrey Epstein survivors deliver a message to Trump and to Congress, and it is loud and clear.

0:12.4

Stand for the truth and release the files.

0:15.7

One of the very brave women who survived Epstein's evils will share her story with me tonight. Plus, Florida's

0:23.3

Surgeon General declaring war on vaccine mandates, vowing to end all of them. Is it exactly what

0:30.0

RFK Jr. wants? And later, probably all politics is really local. Zora Mamdani is ripping the White House after a report suggests that they may be trying

0:40.8

to clear the field for Andrew Cuomo.

0:44.2

Tonight on Laura Coates Live.

0:52.4

58 days.

0:58.3

That's how long has been since the Trump administration tried to shut down the Epstein files. That's 58 days of public outrage, 58 days of piecemeal drips, 508 days of

1:07.1

stonewalling, and today the pressure campaigned for accountability, it hit a boiling

1:12.6

point. This was the scene outside of the Capitol this morning, right here in Washington, D.C.,

1:18.7

a large group of Epstein survivors gathering just steps away from maybe the only place that they

1:24.6

might still hold the power to deliver answers for the people and to the people.

1:30.3

Congress. They described the horrific abuse that they endured as young teenagers.

1:37.3

They called for everyone involved to be identified. They demanded justice.

1:43.3

And they urged Congress to force the Trump administration

1:46.5

to release not some, but all the files.

1:50.0

I stand before you today as a survivor of both Jeffrey Epstein and Gillen Maxwell.

1:56.0

I was 16 years old when I was flown to New Mexico to spend a weekend with Epstein and Maxwell.

2:01.6

My therapist says that my brain is just trying to protect itself,

2:04.6

but it's so hard to begin to heal knowing that there are people out there who know more about my abuse than I do.

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