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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Trump Has A Chance To Pursue Justice In Epstein Scandal

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

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41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

The Justice Department today says they want to speak with Ghislaine Maxwell, the once girlfriend and associate of pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Will she comply and would she tell the truth?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Will President Trump finally bring justice to the victims of the Epstein scandal, or is he going

0:08.8

to continue the cover-up?

0:11.5

The lead starts right now.

0:14.9

The Justice Department today says it wants to speak with Galane Maxwell, the once girlfriend,

0:20.0

an associate of pedophile and sex

0:21.5

trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. She is sitting in prison. Will she comply? Why would she tell the

0:27.1

truth about the other men, possibly connected to this scandal? Plus, did it, the president,

0:33.2

did President Trump just say too much what he revealed about a side deal as he bragged about the

0:38.8

millions he's getting from his settlement with CBS and Paramount and CBS and parent company Paramount

0:45.1

and Ozzy Osbourne as you just heard known as the godfather of heavy metal royalty and

0:50.6

reality TV is dead at age 76 we're going to take a look back at the legendary rocker ahead.

1:02.0

Hi everybody, welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper, and we're going to start in the law and

1:05.2

justice lead under pressure from conservatives for initial attempts to poo-poo releasing all of the

1:10.8

Jeffrey Epstein files.

1:12.0

The Justice Department today said it is now reaching out to Galane Maxwell.

1:15.9

Epstein's former girlfriend and associate, she's serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role

1:19.8

in trafficking minor girls for Epstein.

1:22.5

The president was asked about this announcement by the Justice Department earlier today.

1:28.5

I don't know about it, but I think it's something that would be, sounds appropriate to do.

1:34.1

What might Maxwell tell the feds about other men possibly involved in their decades-old,

1:41.9

sleazy, illegal operation.

1:44.3

And what will be President Trump's role in finally bringing some semblance of justice to Epstein's

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