Will we ever get to the bottom of the Epstein files?

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🗓️ 6 April 2026

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Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown talks about what's next in the unfinished release of Justice Department files about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, now that Pam Bondi has been forced out as attorney general.

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0:00.0	WBUR Podcasts, Boston.
0:06.3	I don't see a whole lot of change between him and Bondi.
0:10.4	They both were minimizing the importance of these files.
0:15.2	The new acting Attorney General wants to move on from the Epstein files.
0:29.2	Music wants to move on from the Epstein files. It's Monday, April 6th,
0:31.1	and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR.
0:34.5	I'm Chris Bentley.
0:38.4	Today on the show, tweets cannot reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
0:44.0	We have to open the Straits of Hormuz, I think, on our own.
0:47.3	I don't think we can do it through the president's kind of bluster and through the social posts.
0:51.8	We're going to have to open it with military risk.
0:54.1	Also, we speak with America's greatest cross-country skier. stir and through the social posts. We're going to have to open it with military risk.
1:00.1	Also, we speak with America's greatest cross-country skier about living in the moment.
1:06.9	Sometimes I'm just hanging on by my fingernails, to be totally honest. So I'm truly not thinking about medals or results or what it means to the team or historically, you really just are in
1:12.9	that moment, what can I do right here right now to be my best?
1:19.6	But first, what happens with the Epstein files now that Pam Bondi is out as Attorney General. The new acting Attorney General,
1:30.5	Todd Blanche, wants the Department of Justice to move on, saying the files should not be a part
1:36.3	of anything going forward. But congressional committees are still investigating Epstein's
1:41.9	serial abuse of girls and his ties to powerful people.
1:46.7	And Bondi may still have to testify about what she knows.
1:50.2	Here's Democratic Representative Rokane.
1:52.4	I mean, if we could chase Hillary Clinton, who hasn't been in office for 20 years,
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