I'm Alex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Brightbart News, and this is the Brightport News Daily podcast.

Happy New Year to all of you.

A first, a quick plug for yesterday's show, my long, long, long-form interview with historian Victor Davis-Hanson, one of the most important and clearest thinkers in public life.

And it is the longest interview I think I've ever done of my career.

And it's all available for you on yesterday's show. A great show to share with people, maybe one where you send a link to someone, you text on the

link and encourage them to subscribe to the podcast. It really helps us move up the charts,

which is what we're seeing. We're seeing that. And that's all thanks to you. And we're very

appreciative. Today, I also do a full plug for the Sir serious XM show, which is three hours every morning, starts at 6 a.m. live Eastern time. And we also had a guest, Dr. Spassian Gorka and Peter Schweitzer, both of whom I would have loved to featured on the podcast. But again, we try to keep the podcast pretty condensed for you. So all that is available on the SXM app and a great reminder to

check out the live show. From time to time, those of you who have a serious XM subscription,

and of course telling friends and family members about the broadcast is the best thing you can

do to help us out at brightboard.com. Jelaine Maxwell is guilty, and that's a good thing,

five or six counts for the child sex

trafficking, et cetera, in connection to her friend. And I assume more than friend, Jeffrey

Epstein. But what's more interesting here is that the Epstein files are still sealed and she didn't

cut a deal that we know of or is not in the process of cutting one as of yet

to give up names.

And that is very disturbing because it means a lot of bad people will have gotten away with a lot of bad stuff.

And that will only continue.

And the public will be left without any transparency about what appears to be a massive ring of

child sex predators who could be amongst the elite of the elite in the world

political and media spaces respectively and it is just a shame if this is how things go and it should not

be considered acceptable but that is an ongoing saga that we report out on the show in some detail and we'll continue to have

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