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The Lead with Jake Tapper

House Cmte. Gets “Birthday Book,” Other Docs From Epstein Estate

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

News

41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

The infamous Epstein birthday book is now in the hands of Congress and the page allegedly from President Trump is now public. Plus, the United States Supreme Court is allowing roving immigration patrols to continue in Los Angeles as the Trump administration launches a new operation in Chicago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tony Shalub loves bread.

0:02.0

On his new CNN original series, he's traveling the world to see how bread is the most delicious way to bring people and cultures together.

0:10.0

Tony Shalub, Breaking Bread, premieres Sunday, October 5th on CNN.

0:16.5

What may be the most viewed page in a certain book today, the lead starts right now.

0:25.2

This doodle in the Epstein birthday book that has the White House playing defense showing a woman's figure the president denies drawing and signing his name at the bottom, the White House denies that he signed that name.

0:38.8

I'm going to talk to a Democrat on the committee that made this page public. Plus, the U.S. Supreme

0:44.4

Court today allowing roving immigration patrols to continue in Los Angeles as the Trump

0:49.0

administration launches a new operation in Chicago, but does it live up to the hype of what Trump wanted?

0:54.8

And what sources are telling CNN about the shouting match between two top Trump officials

1:00.9

that almost came to blows and went down an exclusive club reserved for wealthy MAGA loyalists?

1:11.9

Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. We start in our law and justice lead. President

1:16.5

Donald Trump swore he never drew a picture of a woman's torso for a book of occasionally

1:22.7

bawdy letters celebrating Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday back in 2003. A book and drawing disclosed a few

1:30.7

months ago, mid-July, but not shown by the Wall Street Journal. Quote, the Wall Street Journal

1:36.3

printed a fake letter. Trump posted on social media back then. Here's some of what the president

1:41.5

said when reporters asked him about this Wall Street General report.

1:44.6

I don't even know what they're talking about.

1:49.0

Now, somebody could have written a letter and used my name, but that's happened a lot.

1:53.2

I don't do drawings.

1:54.8

I'm not a drawing person.

1:56.9

I don't do drawings.

1:58.4

Sometimes he would say, would you draw a building and I'll draw four lines and a little roof, you know, for a charity stuff?

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