It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC.

Good morning, everyone.

So if you follow the news closely enough, even like Sunday night and early Monday morning,

maybe you've heard by now about President

Trump's latest flip-flop on releasing the Epstein files. He was for it as a candidate when he

couldn't release them, then against it when he became president, and he could. You probably

know that much. Now it looked like he would get embarrassed by lots of House Republicans

voting against him and for the release.

He suddenly recommended last night in a social media post that the House should vote for it.

Now, if they do, I guess he can declare victory instead of defeat, right?

We'll talk more about the politics and the new revelations from last week about

Trump's involvement with and knowledge of the Epstein crimes. But in light of that content, I thought

it might be good to start with a very brief reminder of what we're talking about when we talk

about Jeffrey Epstein. This is a short clip of the journalist Julie K. Brown from the

Miami Herald who spoke about Epstein on NPR's weekend edition yesterday. She reported more on

Epstein than anyone. She was asked about Epstein having so many friends in high places

while being a serial abuser of minors.

I think that it shows that he's a great manipulator and that also could you imagine if he's able to manipulate some of the top people in the world, could you imagine what he must have

done with these young girls who were 13 and 14 years old and how he must have been able to manipulate them

into believing somehow that he was going to help them with their lives.

I mean, that is the sad part about it.

He was the mastermind behind this sex trafficking network that led to the abuse of hundreds

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