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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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We start with reactions from the White House and a top Democrat on a new batch of pictures from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate. We’ll break down the charges against Michigan’s former head football coach since his arrest. Brian Walshe’s fate is in the hands of a jury. There’s a new shakeup in US military leadership over the fallout from controversial boat strikes in the Caribbean. Plus, a milestone in the fight against a growing STD nationwide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, from CNN. I'm AfomaDK, with the five things you need to know for Friday, December 12th.
0:08.0	The White House is reacting to new photos Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released from
0:12.7	Jeffrey Epstein's estate. A White House spokesperson accused House Democrats of, quote,
0:18.0	selectively releasing cherry-picked photos with random redactions to try and
0:22.1	create a false narrative. Some of the pictures include images of sex toys. Others show many
0:28.3	powerful figures, including President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, and others,
0:33.6	reinforcing the late convicted sex offenders past ties to high-profile people.
0:38.3	One photo shows Trump with six women whose faces are blacked out by committee members,
0:42.3	and another picture shows Clinton with Epstein,
0:45.3	Epstein's former girlfriend Galane Maxwell, and another couple.
0:49.3	Clinton has never been accused by law enforcement of wrongdoing related to Epstein and neither has Trump.
0:55.0	Both Clinton and Trump have said they didn't know about Epstein's crimes and that they cut ties with him.
1:00.0	Congressman Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the committee, says they've gone through about a quarter of the 95,000 photos handed over in their investigation.
1:09.0	He's calling on the Trump administration to release any files they can right now,
1:13.0	rather than waiting until next Friday's deadline to do so.
1:16.4	I think anything that we release is significant.
1:18.2	I think clearly, I think people should be able to make judgments on their own as to what
1:21.6	they see in these photos.
1:22.8	For us, this is about transparency.
1:25.6	More news coming up, including charges on a former Michigan football coach.
1:32.3	This episode is brought to you by Vanta.
1:34.3	Security and compliance done wrong is a headache.
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