Welcome to The Beat. I'm Ari Melbert. And we are following actual investigative developments in how Congress is dealing with the Epstein files. There's a billionaire, and if you don't know his name, you certainly know his business background. Les Wexner will be grilled tomorrow. This is part of what has become a bipartisan rebuke to Donald Trump over and over on the Epstein

files. He said no new files. Congress made him release them. That's the story we've been following.

He said, let it go. It's an old story. Congress said, no, there's more to do. And so it stays in the

news because of these actual investigative developments. Now, Exeter had a long and very big kind of business relationship

with Epstein. The question is what kind of business, but tens of millions of dollars were exchanged.

This deposition will occur in Ohio. That's part of an accommodation of the witness who is 88 years

old. Now, when I mentioned business, what these two

men did in business is part of what's under investigation. So on the one hand, we could tell you

that Wexner was a successful businessman, a billionaire, and that he was also a benefactor of Epstein,

that he helped him financially. And maybe that's all there was to it. We want to be careful and

follow the facts. But lawmakers, investigators, and maybe that's all there was to it. We want to be careful and follow the facts,

but lawmakers, investigators, and independent journalists have raised the question of just why so much of Wexner's money ended up in Epstein's pockets. At one point, Epstein was managing

Wexner's finances. Then they did sever ties, And that was in 2007 as more heat came on Epstein.

What we're learning from the files, though, is that Wexner is in there over a thousand times.

Emails, lawsuits that seem to involve potentially both of them. And the DOJ has even modified some of the redactions to the 2019 FBI file that showed they were

looking at whether Wexner had exposure related to the crimes they were investigating Epstein for.

Now, we want you to understand what Wexner has said, and this is prior to even the new files

release, he maintains that they had a kind of professional relationship and that ultimately

he became disenchanted

with what he viewed as Epstein's failures or misconduct with regard to finances.

Now, Wexner will be only the second person to speak before Congress since the files were released.

You can see a lot of the pressure on many of these individuals we've been tracking, while

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