Jeffrey Epstein's Past Threats, Intel Associations, and How He Really Got So Rich, with Vicky Ward | Ep. 1108

The Megyn Kelly Show

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🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Megyn Kelly begins the show by discussing the possibility that the Trump administration will be releasing more on Jeffrey Epstein now, why the story really matters even if it isn't the most important story in the country or world, the need for journalists to stay on it and get to the truth, the nuances in the Epstein and Diddy story and why not all alleged victims are to be believed, the hypocrisy from some in the press who covered for Biden's cognitive decline now trying to spin Epstein to hurt Trump, and more. Then Vicky Ward, author of "The Idaho Four," joins to discuss the facts we know about whether Epstein was an intel asset or "belonged to intelligence," the significance of Ghislaine Maxwell's father Robert Maxwell, Alex Acosta's past non-answers, the details of Epstein's strange career path, how he supposedly got wealthy, the circles he ran in that included Ehud Barak and Bill Clinton, how he was able to get the cushy plea deal, how Epstein threatened her unborn children while she investigated his finances and real estate for Vanity Fair, how he infiltrated newsrooms to manipulate coverage, why his intimidation tactics went unchecked for years, new reporting about the roommate who was Bryan Kohberger’s main target, his behavior mirroring past killers, how investigators used DNA technology to crack what was nearly the perfect crime, and more. Ward- https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/james-patterson/the-idaho-four/9780316572859/ Riverbend Ranch: Visit https://riverbendranch.com/ | Use promo code MEGYN for $20 off your first order. Just Thrive: Visit https://justthrivehealth.com/discount/Megyn and use code MEGYN to save 20% sitewide Birch Gold: Text MK to 989898 and get your free info kit on gold Pique: Get 20% off your order plus a FREE frother & glass beaker with this exclusive link: https://piquelife.com/MEGYN

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
0:12.0	Hey, everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show. We are live from Vail, Colorado
0:17.2	today, where I'm out here on business, but I wanted to make sure I made time for all of you
0:23.1	because there's a lot going on. And we're going to talk a bit about Epstein. And we're going to speak
0:29.7	in just a moment to reporter Vicki Ward. Her name is all over the news. You heard it all over our
0:34.3	show yesterday. She's the reporter who wrote for Vanity Fair back in the early aughts about Jeffrey Epstein.
0:41.0	Her piece about his abuse of girls was removed from the piece, though she was quite heroic in trying to expose him back then.
0:51.3	And then she updated her piece in 2019 when Alex Acosta, the U.S. attorney who had
0:57.2	been going after Epstein down in Florida in 2007, 2008, spiked the case, gave him a sweetheart
1:04.1	deal, and waltzed off into the sunset. She reported for Daily Beast in 2019 that she'd been told by a member of the Trump transition
1:13.4	team back in 1617 that Alex Acosta had said to the Trump transition team that he had been
1:21.8	told that Jeffrey Epstein was part of intelligence. I want to quote it exactly. He had been told, quote, that's a quote,
1:29.8	been told to back off that Epstein was above his pay grade, quote, I was told Epstein belonged to
1:36.0	intelligence and to leave it alone. That's what he told his interviewers in the Trump transition.
1:41.5	That was what she reported. So we're going to have her on today
1:45.1	to talk about where that came from, what she can say about it, and whether she stands by
1:50.1	that reporting. There are many other people disputing Alex Acosta's alleged statement that,
1:57.6	you know, suggests Epstein was a foreign agent, including Alan Dershowitz, which I'll play for you in a minute.
2:04.0	He represented Jeffrey Epstein in that sweetheart plea deal.
2:06.9	He's the one who got it for him.
2:08.6	And he does not believe that Epstein was an agent for Israel or anyone else.
2:13.6	And I'll let you hear from him directly as he explains why that is. Meanwhile, here's where
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