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The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | An unindicted co-conspirator in the Epstein case just spoke to members of Congress. |
| 0:07.2 | The lead starts right now. |
| 0:09.6 | The billionaire behind Victoria's Secret, Bath and Body Works, Abercrombie and Fitch, |
| 0:15.8 | the man known as billionaire Les Wexner, once named as a secondary unindicted co-conspirator, |
| 0:20.7 | though with notes |
| 0:21.3 | that there was limited evidence of his involvement. |
| 0:24.1 | Today in a congressional deposition, Wexner testified about his ties to the dead pedophile, |
| 0:30.4 | Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 0:31.4 | One of the lawmakers who is in Ohio for the questioning will join us here on the lead. |
| 0:37.0 | And the agonizing waits now 18 days in for any information on Nancy Guthrie. |
| 0:44.2 | What authorities in Arizona are saying about the search today? |
| 0:48.2 | Plus, meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, on the stand. |
| 0:53.5 | What he told a jury in a lawsuit alleging Facebook and Instagram are intentionally designed to be addictive and harmful for children. |
| 1:06.2 | Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper, and our lead tonight, Les Wexner, the former owner of Victoria's Secret facing tough questions from lawmakers today over his involvement with dead pedophile and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Wexner's name was at first redacted in the co-conspirator document and the Justice Department's massive Epstein file release. It's now unredacted, and it appears in hundreds |
| 1:29.4 | of other records, a paper trail of authority's mission to understand how the retail tycoon |
| 1:34.3 | helped Epstein grow his wealth, and whether or not Wexner had any knowledge of Epstein's sexual |
| 1:40.4 | crimes during their approximately 30-year-long business relationship between the 1980s and 2010. |
| 1:47.0 | We should note, Wexner has never been charged with a crime. |
| 1:50.0 | He has, through the years, denied any wrongdoing related to Epstein, including today. |
| 1:55.0 | His statement to lawmakers reads, in part, quote, I was never a participant nor co-conspiratory in any of Epstein's |
| 2:01.8 | illegal activities. To my enormous embarrassment and regret, I, like many others, was duped by a |
| 2:07.4 | world-class con man, unquote. Records in the Epstein files include allegations made to the FBI |
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