The Epstein Files: Former US Presidents Named
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
High-profile associates of Jeffrey Epstein named in US court papers.
Former presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump are among the people named in US court papers detailing connections of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The team assesses what we know so far, what’s to come, and how the story has played out on social media.
And after weeks of controversy, Claudine Gay has stepped down as president of Harvard University following her comments on anti-Semitism.
We speak to the reporter who got the scoop on the plagiarism story about why he thinks she had no choice but to step down.
HOSTS: • Sarah Smith, North America editor • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Marianna Spring, disinformation and social media correspondent • Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent
GUEST: • Aaron Sibarium, Reporter at The Washington Free Beacon
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This episode was made by George Dabby with Catherine Fusillo, Rufus Gray, Claire Betzer. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The series producer is George Dabby. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Happy New Year, welcome to 2024. |
| 0:07.5 | I was in the sea of the Hebridean Island of Vaiona, early in the morning on the 1st of January that's the way we do it in |
| 0:14.0 | Scotland you might think that is an odd way to celebrate the turning of the year well there |
| 0:18.8 | are stranger ways to do it just look at what Donald Trump was up to at Marilago. He had vanilla ice on stage |
| 0:25.1 | performing alongside a teenage mutant Ninja turtle. Michelangelo if you need to know which one. I don't know. I don't know. |
| 0:35.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:39.0 | I've not seen the pictures but I'm kind of imagining them and then wish I wasn't. But here's the |
| 0:44.3 | point salient, you know people will laugh at it, people will talk about it. |
| 0:48.4 | Get social media attraction. Joe Biden on the other hand. |
| 0:52.0 | Mr. President, before we start here about the new year, I'm curious, what sort of holiday foods |
| 0:57.7 | have you been enjoying over the last few days? |
| 0:59.7 | Well, I've been eating and everything is put in front of me. |
| 1:02.3 | I've eaten pasta, which I love, |
| 1:04.8 | eating a lot of chicken, chicken parmesan. |
| 1:07.4 | I've been eating all Italian foods, basically. |
| 1:09.7 | And ice cream. |
| 1:11.1 | Chocolate chip ice cream. |
| 1:12.2 | It's good to know that you're eating like the |
| 1:13.9 | rest of us here across the country I mean seriously I don't know if you've |
| 1:19.8 | ever heard the phrase Justin beige flag beige flag is like not like a red flag |
| 1:25.0 | beige flag is like something a bit boring that someone does I think that |
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