Welcome to the beat. I'm Mari Melbert. We begin with the bombshell confirmation, the revelations

in this ongoing Trump-Eptstein scandal. Donald Trump is in the Epstein emails. As Nicole Walson,

we're just discussing, that is now confirmed prior to this. Responsible people, lawyers who deal in

evidence, journalists who deal with what we know and don't know,

weren't saying that yet. Other people have said all kinds of things, by the way, on both sides of this.

But what you see on your screen, our headline here, is the first time this has been reported and

confirmed with receipts because Epstein himself emailed about Trump.

We have this from Congress.

These are damning emails where Epstein says,

this is his view, what he alleges,

that Donald Trump knew of Epstein's conduct.

He sent an email in 2019,

revealed for the first time ever today.

So long after his death,

we now learn that he says, of course Trump knew about, quote, the girls. Now, that is a major statement. The context of it is what lawyers and investigators

would call more credible because it was made privately in a secret manner that he thought would stay secret.

And if you're saying, okay, Ari, but now it's on the news, now it's in other people's hands,

yeah, years later, and after he died, this statement he made stayed secret all that time

through the probe and through his own death. So what they thought would stay secret,

did stay secret for a long time.

And while Donald Trump vowed to release exactly this type of material, the emails or files in

government possession, he broke that vow. And it's only the dogged pursuit of investigative reporters.

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