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Thank you. We are going to start immediately with the Jeffrey Epstein story. It's really a sort of thing.

And yesterday we had Laura Engel from News Nation. News Nation is a real good new cable news network.

So you should find it on your cable system. And Laura, who worked on our show in KFI for a long time, a while back.

She's now their national news reporter, and she's covering this Epstein case.

And it's a sprawling case.

Let's get Laura on immediately.

Oh, she's not quite there yet?

Okay.

It helps if somebody tells me this before I start introducing the guest.

You may have heard some tidbits here. And it's amazing how many people with tawdry sexual histories are connected to this who knew Epstein. I read that Epstein was worth

$580 million.

And his townhome in Manhattan was worth $51 million.

And to this day, nobody has been able to figure out where he got the money.

He was supposed to be this Wall Street finance guy, trader.

They can't find anyone on Wall Street who did business with him, right?

Because when you're buying and selling, you need somebody that you're buying and selling from or two.

And they're just not aware of a source of the money.

And there are rumors that he was working with the CIA,

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