from WNYC studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday, February 9th.

On this day when Galane Maxwell is testifying before the House Oversight Committee, the world is still,

I think we can say fairly, only beginning to digest the creepiness of various rich or powerful

men who talked about women with Jeffrey Epstein or got set up by him with women long after he

was convicted of having sex with a minor and forced to register as a sex

offender. And in some cases, even after the Miami Herald reporting in 2018 about many other

allegations, we'll touch on some of these names, Howard Lutnik, one of President Trump's

very top appointees, Bill Gates, Leon Black, health

influencer and CBS News contributor, Peter Attia, Galane Maxwell and the Clinton Foundation,

maybe we'll get to that. Epstein's Manhattan neurologist, Dr. Harry Fish, co-owner of the New York

Giants, Steve Tisch, Bard College college president, Leon Bostein, maybe others.

There was also the question, though, of why images of some of the victims were not redacted,

while identities of some of his associates were.

Here's Democratic Congressman Rokana on NBC's Meet the Press

last week. And there is a demand for elite accountability. But the survivors' lawyers that I've

talked to have said that the survivors are still upset. They're upset that many of their names

accidentally came out without redactions, and they want to make sure the rest of

the files come out.

So we'll talk about some of the revelations, what consequences they should lead to, and if

Galane Maxwell's testimony today can shed any new light with two journalists following the

Epstein story closely. Steve Eder,

investigative reporter for the New York Times, and Vicki Ward, who did some of the earliest

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