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The Counsel

Note from Elie 7/25: Ghislaine Maxwell Is Not the Savior

The Counsel

Some Spider, Inc.

Politics, News

4.6848 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Elie Honig is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and co-chief of the organized crime unit at the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted more than 100 mobsters, including members of La Cosa Nostra, and the Gambino and Genovese crime families. He went on to serve as Director of the Department of Law and Public Safety at New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice. He is currently Special Counsel at Lowenstein Sandler and a CNN legal analyst. For a transcript of Elie’s note and the full archive of contributor notes, head to CAFE.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I've ruled out uni because I want to live at home.

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I've ruled out uni because I want to earn money.

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I've ruled out uni because of my grades.

0:10.0

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0:23.6

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0:31.4

Hey everyone, Ellie here, wishing you a happy Friday. Well, the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, not only is it

0:37.4

not going anywhere,

0:39.0

it is getting worse and worse for the administration. We're going to talk about a legal angle

0:45.3

in a minute, an important one, but someday they're going to look back at this, people who study

0:49.8

communications and crisis management as an example of everything not to do, the mixed messages,

0:57.4

the change in positions, the unconvincing, non-responsive answers we've heard from the

1:03.7

administration. And this week it really all snowballed. And now we see things happening really beyond

1:10.0

the control of President Trump himself. One of them

1:12.7

will talk about soon. We're starting to see subpoenas from Congress, the Republican-controlled Congress.

1:19.2

And so it's getting really, really uncomfortable and worse for the administration. It's fascinating

1:24.4

to watch it play out, though. Whatever one may think of it, it's a unique collision of the law and politics. And they both matter, and they're both going

1:33.3

to dictate the ultimate result. I'm convinced now that there is no winning this. I was talking to a

1:38.7

pretty staunch conservative operative the other day. And I said, there's no path to

1:44.1

victory or even measured defeat here for the other day. And I said, there's no path to victory or even measured

1:46.6

defeat here for the Trump campaign. They're just, they're too far in. People will never be

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