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Europe's Epstein fallout Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor released under investigation · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: We start with an arrest in the UK that's rocked
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  Speaker 1: the royal family. Andrew mount Batten Windsor, former Prince and
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  Speaker 1: younger brother of King Charles the Third, has left police
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  Speaker 1: detention after being taken into custody earlier. Today, police say
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  Speaker 1: the former royal has been quote released under investigation. He
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  Speaker 1: suspected of passing sensitive documents to the late sex offender
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Speaker 2: Once a prince, now an ostracized member of the British
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  Speaker 2: Royal family, Andrew mount Batten Windsor is the first in
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  Speaker 2: the monarchy's modern history to be arrested. British police are
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  Speaker 2: investigating allegations that he was passing on confidential government documents
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  Speaker 2: to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Back in twenty ten,
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  Speaker 2: when he was serving as the UK Special Trade Envoy,
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  Speaker 2: Prime Minister Keir Starmer stated that laws must apply regardless
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  Speaker 2: of status.
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  Speaker 3: One of the core principles in our system is that
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  Speaker 3: everybody is equal under the law and nobody is above
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  Speaker 3: the law, and it is really important that that is
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  Speaker 3: applied across the board.
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  Speaker 2: Buckingham Palace released a statement from King Charles.
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  Speaker 4: What now follows is the full fair and proper process
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  Speaker 4: by which this issue is investigated. In this as I
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  Speaker 4: have said before, they have our full and wholehearted support
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  Speaker 4: and cooperation.
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  Speaker 2: A recent release of millions of documents related to the
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  Speaker 2: Epstein files put Andrew back in the spotlight. Despite pictures
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  Speaker 2: showing him in compromising positions with what many believe are
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  Speaker 2: some of Epstein's sex trafficking victims, Andrew mount Patten has
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  Speaker 2: repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. His most outspoken accuser, Virginia Guffrey,
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  Speaker 2: claimed that Andrew assaulted her on three occasions when she
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  Speaker 2: was just seventeen years old. Geoffrey committed suicide last year.
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  Speaker 2: Her family have released a statement thanking the British police,
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  Speaker 2: but many Britons are skeptical that justice in Andrew's case
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  Speaker 2: will be served.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's only because the public probably put pressure
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  Speaker 5: on and the media has put pressure on to have
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  Speaker 5: then questioned. But he'll probably disappear to some country where
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  Speaker 5: it won't be extradited.
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  Speaker 3: I thought to go into hiding and get away with it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so no, that's all I've got to say. Really, I'm pleased.
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  Speaker 5: Honestly, nothing's going to happen to him.
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  Speaker 4: Really, if you think about it.
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  Speaker 5: You know, he's fully protected by his family. I don't
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  Speaker 5: want to say too much into it. Wherever he gets
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  Speaker 5: what he deserves.
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  Speaker 2: Concerns about Mount Batan Windsor's links to the late financier
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  Speaker 2: have dogged the royal family for more than a decade,
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  Speaker 2: and this unprecedented arrest of the king's brother is likely
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  Speaker 2: to put more on the crown.
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  Speaker 1: And let's bring in Matthew Sheffield. He's a journalist and
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  Speaker 1: former Republican media consultant, and he's also a podcast host.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much for joining us.
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  Speaker 6: Its tread to be here, Arion.
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  Speaker 1: So Matthew today was another example of real consequences here
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  Speaker 1: in Europe from the Epstein files. Yet we've seen precious
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  Speaker 1: little in the United States. Why is that exactly.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I do want to clarify that there have been
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  Speaker 6: consequences for some people in the United States. So, for instance,
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  Speaker 6: there was a Yale computer science professor named David jellen
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  Speaker 6: Turner who was recently suspended there for engaging in emails
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  Speaker 6: with Jeffrey Epstein. And also there's a Harvard professor named
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  Speaker 6: Larna Summers who was also suspended for his close relationship
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  Speaker 6: and attorney with the finance company Goldman Sachs that was
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  Speaker 6: forced to resign after we're being very close friendly to
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  Speaker 6: her what she called Uncle Jeffrey. So there have been
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  Speaker 6: consequences for some people, but notably the people that have
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  Speaker 6: not experienced consequences are all people connected to Donald Trump
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  Speaker 6: and the Republican Party. And that's the big difference. And
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  Speaker 6: it is starting to rankle some of the right wing
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  Speaker 6: media and some of the fans of Donald Trump as well,
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  Speaker 6: but they're not doing it so much against Trump but
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  Speaker 6: against some of the other figures in his orbit.
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  Speaker 1: So there has been some blowback at least. But let's
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  Speaker 1: stay with the President for a second. Trump said that
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  Speaker 1: former Prince Andrew's arrest was called very sad. But are
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  Speaker 1: Americans in general, are the voting population really paying attention
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  Speaker 1: to what's happening here in Europe? Gardening the Epstein files.
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  Speaker 6: I think people The arrest of former Prince Andrew definitely
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  Speaker 6: is going to put a pin in it for many
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  Speaker 6: Americans who might not have been following the Epstein Files, because,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, this guy is definitely, you know, an extremely
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  Speaker 6: famous person even to people in other countries, and the
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  Speaker 6: fact that he is the first member of the British
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  Speaker 6: royal family to be arrested for an alleged crime. That's
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  Speaker 6: definitely going to put a lot of people's attention onto
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  Speaker 6: these matters. And notably have other people like the e
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  Speaker 6: Commerce secretary Howard Lutnik, who lied and had been exposed
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  Speaker 6: now repeatedly for lying about his close relationship with Epstein,
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  Speaker 6: including being his business partner. You know, they seem to
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  Speaker 6: be getting away with it if they're directly connected and
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  Speaker 6: they work for Trump current.
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  Speaker 1: Now you are a former Republican media consultant, how exactly
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  Speaker 1: have conservative media outlets responded to these European names surfacing
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein files.
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  Speaker 6: Well, they definitely have been covering the arrest of former
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  Speaker 6: Prince Andrew to some extent. And what is notable is
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  Speaker 6: that you now are so generally speaking, right wing media
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  Speaker 6: outlets tend to censor information that is critical of Republican leaders.
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  Speaker 6: That's the main response that they have to negative information,
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  Speaker 6: so they just don't tell their audience at all about it.
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  Speaker 6: But with regard to some people that are connected to Trump,
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  Speaker 6: and one of them, the biggest example is Steve Bannon,
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  Speaker 6: is a former White House Chief of staff and campaign advisor,
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  Speaker 6: you are seeing some rightening media figures start to attack
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  Speaker 6: the very very close relationship that he had with Epstein,
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  Speaker 6: that he was emailing and phone calling with him up
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  Speaker 6: until the very date that he was arrested. And some
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  Speaker 6: people are now finally starting to be concerned about that.
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  Speaker 6: And there are some concerns that people, especially on the
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  Speaker 6: more grassroots base voter side, that they've been very upset
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  Speaker 6: at Pambody, the Attorney General, for lying repeatedly and for
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  Speaker 6: trying to block the release of files. She admitted to
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  Speaker 6: herself that she has not prosecuted anyone who has been
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  Speaker 6: a an Epstein accomplice.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that was Matthew Sheffield has always thanked for
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  Speaker 1: your insights on this historic day.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.