Welcome, everybody, to the Jim Acosta show. It is Thursday or another day that ends in why if we were talking about Trump's cover up in the Epstein Gate scandal.

Today, my big guest is Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona. Senator, great to see you.

Good to see it, too.

And, you know, I should just start off by saying today's efforts to cover up the truth in Epstein gate are centered in Florida.

That's where Justice Department officials are scheduled to meet with Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend Galane Maxwell, who's serving a 20-year prison sentence for child sex trafficking.

And it doesn't take a rocket scientist senator to figure out that Maxwell could be offered some kind of deal to exonerate Trump in exchange for

her release or a lighter sentence. What do you make of all this? What's been your sense of this whole

thing since it blew up a couple of weeks ago? I mean, it's just shady. It's just really shady and

it reeks of a cover-up. And, you know, every publicans are like, oh, why don't you guys bring

this up?

Like, we never made this in a campaign issue.

Trump and his people made this a campaign issue for eight years.

And then they get into office and they continued making a campaign issue.

And then it blew up in their face.

And then they're surprised at where like, okay, so why did this blow up in your face?

Were you lying the whole time and you were taking advantage of, you know, essentially re-victimizing these women, or girls,

I should say, you know, were you trying to exploit, you know, the vulnerabilities of a lot of your

voting base by claiming that everyone's pedophiles, right? You claim the DOJ was not actually

going after these guys, and now you're

using DOJ to cover up for these elites. So, you know, the reason is this so interesting.

It's right. There's people that are still asking questions is because it smells bad. It looks

fat. And like at the core, Americans know and feel when there is a cover up, especially of some

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