Joining us today is Julie K. Brown, who as everyone knows who's been paying attention, broke

the Epstein Files, Epstein probe wide open in 2017 with a series of articles and investigative

journalism. Welcome, Julie. Thanks for being with us. Great to be here.

Okay. So I want to start by asking you when this drop came from the Justice Department,

which was limited, redacted, but one interesting thing to me was that they were keeping tabs on you.

What was that like in that moment?

And has there been any follow up with the Justice Department on that?

Well, you know, let me back up.

I had somebody point out to me that they saw my names in connection with a plane itinerary, a flight itinerary.

So of course, that sounded very odd.

I knew my name would be in there because the whole reason why the Southern District of

New York opened the case to begin with was because of my investigative story in the Miami

Herald. So of course, story in the Miami Herald.

So of course, they're mentioning my story throughout, you know, did you see this?

Did you look at that?

So I knew my name, but when someone called me and said, well, there's a flight it

with your name on it, and when they showed me a copy of it, it had my maiden name attached

to it.

And that's very odd because I don't use my

maiden name professionally. So I thought, what is this? Now, everything is blacked out,

of course, except for my name. So all I know when I first looked at it was this is my name,

because I have an unusual maiden name. And I don't know why they're doing this because

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