All right, welcome, everybody, to the Jim Acosta show.

It is Thursday, and the fallout from Epstein Gate continues to grow here in Washington.

Joining me on today's show is investigative journalist with the Miami Herald, Julie K. Brown, who has been working the Epstein story for years.

She's also the author of the book, Perversion of Justice, the Jeffrey Epstein story.

Julie, it's great to see you when I was thinking

about, I need to have an expert on this case to come on my show. I thought of you first, and I know

I'm not alone in that, but you really have been an expert in this. And just thank you for coming on.

I guess, first of all, what's been your reaction to this flood of news that we've seen this week since that DOJ memo that came out, whatever, 4th of July weekend, that really felt like they were trying to sweep this thing under the rug?

Your thoughts?

Well, there's sort of an irony here because up until now, there's really, you know, there's been a lot of hinting that Trump is

somehow connected to Epstein, but there's really been no hard evidence at all. And I've been pretty

vocal about the fact that some of, you know, people have been trying to directly link him with

Epstein. Yes, he was friends with him, but so were a lot of other people.

And the irony here is that even though he wasn't directly linked to Epstein before,

this whole thing that happened this week does now link him to this case because he's made the decision to keep these files under wraps.

And we're not just talking about a list here because we don't even know, and I doubt,

that there is a proverbial list of clients that Epstein had.

But these are investigative files by the FBI, by the FAA, by Homeland Security, by the U.S.

attorney.

There are countless agencies that have been involved in Epstein investigations over the

past two decades.

So there's a lot of material here that they have in their hands that they

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