One of the richest men in the world took questions today about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

The lead starts right now.

And that man is billionaire Bill Gates, who was front and center on Capitol Hill today,

pressed on his interactions with the now dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, while the New York

Times is revealing a freak out at the White House about Epstein,

how top Trump officials, including Vice President J.D. Vance, initially reacted to the

Epstein files last year and tried to contain the fallout. Plus, quote, we're going to hit them

hard. That new threat from President Trump to the Iranian regime after a whirlwind 24 hours,

strikes from both sides in between promises

of a peace deal. A well-sourced journalist is here with what the back and forth is and where it

stands now. And just hours away from game four of the NBA finals at Madison Square Garden

and Stephen A. Smith will be here on the lead. He'll talk about the hooped game, but also he's

going to add on to his own War of Words

with President Trump.

Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapp.

We're gonna start in our Law and Justice League today.

Two big new developments on the matter of the Epstein files.

One, billionaire Bill Gates telling Congress that the Epstein files. One, billionaire Bill Gates

telling Congress that Jeffrey Epstein was, quote, working to use information about my infidelities,

unquote, to pressure Gates to reengage with him after their business contact it ended, which

sounds a lot to me like blackmail. But we're going to start with the eyebrow raising report today

detailing a White House freakout. That's in quotes. White House freak out over the Epstein

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