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American Prestige

Special - Jeffrey Epstein and Elite Power w/ Murtaza Hussain (Preview)

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8705 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Subscribe now for the full episode and access to all news specials. Danny and Derek sit down with journalist Murtaza Hussain of ⁠Drop Site News⁠ to talk about his ongoing reporting on Jeffrey Epstein’s extensive political and financial influence. They get into how Epstein operated as a fixer and connector for powerful people and entities around the world; the private meetings and backchannel negotiations he helped facilitate, from Israel to Russia to Côte d'Ivoire; the role he played in brokering surveillance and security agreements; and why this part of his life went unreported or was dismissed for so long. Be sure to check out Murtaza’s reporting in Drop Site’s series “Epstein and Israel.”

Transcript

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0:00.0

So, right, so far we've done stories about this in Mongolia and Cote d'Ivoire.

0:04.7

We've also done a story about Epstein being involved in setting up a private back channel

0:09.8

between the Israeli government and the Russian government during the Syrian civil war

0:14.0

to try to create a situation that a negotiated deal where Bashar al-Assad were left power in 2013

0:20.7

and a pro-Russian

0:22.0

Syrian dictator who was willing to do what Israel wanted to would come into power at that time.

0:27.1

Epstein was integral in setting up the contacts between Barack and ultimately Putin himself for this

0:33.0

back channel through his own connections to Russian oligarchs and in Putin's ruling circle.

0:39.8

There was that. And the last story, the most recent story we've done is about an Israeli

0:44.0

intelligence agent who was living in Epstein's house on multiple occasions in 2013, 2015.

0:49.3

He's a military intelligence agent, an aide to Barack, Yoni Kornin. He lived in Epstein's house.

0:56.3

You know, that's not just in the emails.

0:58.2

That's also in the House oversight committee disclosures of the schedule.

1:01.9

He was there. He was staying in his apartment in Manhattan.

1:05.0

So, you know, there was some information about that and what he was doing there.

1:08.2

Corrin was like a liaison between the Israeli and American intelligence establishments and

1:13.6

Epstein House was base.

1:15.0

So one can make it that what they will.

1:18.2

And yeah, but this is only in the beginning of these stories.

1:20.4

We have many, many more stories because, you know, as you said, there's been a reticence or

1:25.4

hesitation to cover this subject or this aspect of the Epstein story

1:28.7

in most media outlets. And, you know, I have some theories about that or have some speculation

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