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The Beat with Ari Melber

New Epstein pics put heat on DOJ for December deadline

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Daily News, News, Versant Media, Politics, Ms Now, Government, Versant

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

December 12, 2025; 6pm; House Democrats releasing numerous photos of Jeffrey Epstein with prominent individuals including Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and Bill Clinton, ahead of the December 19 deadline for DOJ to release its Epstein files. MS NOW’s Ari Melber reports and is joined by Molly Jong-Fast, Michelle Goldberg, and 50 Cent.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the beat. We begin with the newly released evidence. These are Jeffrey Epstein photos that are

0:05.1

coming to light for the first time today. They feature powerful politicians, including from both

0:10.8

parties, and some of the world's richest men. Now, this is part of 95,000 images that were lawfully provided

0:19.9

under these further transparency pushes.

0:23.7

And these came from Epstein's estate, from his computer emails and other documentation

0:28.5

under, as I mentioned, a lawful subpoena from Congress, specifically the House Oversight Committee.

0:34.6

These are newly coming to light. We're going to give you context as you see them.

0:38.9

It is one thing to read about and hear about some of these relationships. There's Steve Bannon,

0:42.8

Trump ally, with Woody Allen. Another thing to see them with your own eyes and make your own

0:47.3

judgments. House Democrats released about 85 images. Some include Trump. One includes

0:52.4

former President Clinton. Trump's surrounded by women who

0:55.6

were in, I should say, Hawaiian lays. Their face is redacted by the committee. Another one shows Trump

1:02.1

with an unidentified woman. We don't know without further context why the Epstein has said had or

1:08.9

saved these, what Jeffrey Epstein's interest was in them,

1:11.9

whether or not they relate to something that Trump's own cabinet official has called alleged

1:16.1

blackmail. The answers and context for that kind of question, those kind of issues would come up,

1:22.4

of course, when we get the Fuller Epstein files, which DOJ must turn over with a looming deadline.

1:28.5

I'll get into that shortly, but the estate did not have written context with these images.

1:35.9

The mirror selfie now seen round the world shows what you see here.

1:43.6

Very simply, sex trafficker Epstein holding the phone next to, close to him,

1:50.0

flanking him, longtime Trump ally, former White House official, Steve Bannon.

1:56.0

We've reported on their extensive relationship, including their furtive secret efforts to, according to Bannon,

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