There is a lot to get to a lot to talk about. Thank you so much for being here with me tonight.

And one of the things I've been thinking about today is if there's one thing that has been very clear through the last few weeks of Trump's, I can only call them daily meltdowns over the Epstein files.

It's that for Trump, protecting himself is more important than basically anything else.

Definitely more important than transparency, more important than public interest, and more important

than the people who suffered at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator Galane Maxwell.

Well, today we got another reminder of that, because today was the deadline for Epstein's

victims to weigh in on whether or not a court should grant Trump's request to release

all grand jury testimony relating to the late sex predator.

And those victims are justifiably irate about how the Trump administration has handled

all of this so far.

As one anonymous victim wrote,

I'm not sure the highest priority here is the victims,

justice for the victims or combating child exploitation.

Another said, I'm not some pawn in your political warfare.

And a lawyer representing numerous victims put it this way, quote, we were quite surprised to learn that the government sought the unsealing of grand jury materials before this court without first conferring with the victims or their counsel.

This omission reinforces the perception that the victims are at best an afterthought to the current administration.

An afterthought.

The fact that these victims and their family members and their lawyers and their community

feel they are an afterthought to Trump and his administration shouldn't be surprising.

I'm not surprised by it, given that Trump said Epstein, quote, stole young girls from him

at Marilago, stole, and that was the word he used. I mean, here's how the brother of former

spa worker Virginia Joufrey reacted to that last week. When you said the president invoked your

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