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Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Thursday, September 4th, 2025.

This is USA Today's The Excert.

Today, what Epstein victims are saying about investigative files in the case, plus Trump reacts to a meeting in Asia without him. And iced attention is expanding to the notorious

Angola prison. Women who say they were sexually abused by the late

disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein spoke out in an emotional press conference yesterday,

where they called for the full release of the criminal investigative files in the case.

I spoke with USA Today, domestic security correspondent Josh Meyer for more.

Josh, thanks for hopping on. My pleasure, Taylor.

So, Josh, what did we hear from Epstein victims yesterday?

There were a lot of victims there.

There were several dozen that spoke.

Some of them for the first time.

One was originally from Brazil, one from the United Kingdom.

They all had kind of the same message that they were groomed by Galane Maxwell,

allegedly, and that they were essentially served up as first initially as massage therapists or masseuses and then as essentially sex slaves to Jeffrey Epstein.

So they're very angry at Congress for not being more transparent.

They're very angry at the Justice Department.

And they want the files released, the so-called Epstein files.

And they say that the public needs to see them and that the victims need to see them and see all the detail in them to get on with their lives. Well, this press conference came after a big release of documents this week. What tens of thousands of documents out there, Josh? Did we learn anything new from that release? How much actually came out? You know, we didn't. The documents came out late in the evening, and so we had to go through, and they were done in a way where you couldn't keyword search for them, so it made it very hard to call through them. But what we determined and what everybody else determined was that there was almost nothing new in there. In fact, literally nothing new. And that critics are saying, including Democrats on the Hill, are saying that congressional

Republicans just release those as part of an effort to cover up for Trump and that they're

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