Latest / DEEP INSIGHT / Letter signed by J. Epstein to Larry Nassar cites our president

Transcript

Letter signed by J. Epstein to Larry Nassar cites our president · DEEP INSIGHT

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: The Justice Department released a new batch of documents in
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, including chilling new evidence that some
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: viewers may find disturbing. This is a jailhouse letter apparently
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: written by a Jeffrey Epstein. This is Jay Epstein, and
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: it was sent to another infamous sex offender, that would
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: be Larry Nasser. The letter appears to include a reference
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: to President Trump, and should note President Trump is not
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: accused of any criminal wrongdoing.
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: And I just spoke to a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse,
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: Hailey Robeson a short time ago. Here's what she said,
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: and DOJ says some of these things are salacious and
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: there's no truth behind it.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: That's the statement it just released. But what do you
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: think about the mention of Trump in that letter and
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: what it said.
• 0:45
  Speaker 3: I think it's very apparent in that specific letter that
• 0:49
  Speaker 3: was just publicized from the Epstein files, I think it's
• 0:52
  Speaker 3: very apparent that there are a group of men that
• 0:56
  Speaker 3: enjoy the company of young women and chill. And I
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: think that letter emphasizes that he knew what was going on,
• 1:06
  Speaker 3: and that enough, that complicity is enough for me to
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: know you have no business being in the position of power.
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: Strong words there from Haley Roads and let's go live
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: now to see it, and senior reporter Marshall Cohen join
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: us here in the situation room. So walk us through
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: that letter. What did it actually say?
• 1:24
  Speaker 4: Marshall?
• 1:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Pam, So let's be really clear about what we
• 1:27
  Speaker 5: know and what we don't know. We have actually been
• 1:29
  Speaker 5: aware for a couple of years that Epstein tried to
• 1:32
  Speaker 5: send a letter or maybe did send a letter to
• 1:34
  Speaker 5: Nasser from prison that's been out there. We have never
• 1:37
  Speaker 5: seen it before, and it apparently was in the drop
• 1:40
  Speaker 5: today from the Justice Department. It was written to LN
• 1:45
  Speaker 5: Larry Nasser on the envelope and it was signed by
• 1:48
  Speaker 5: Jay Epstein, and it was postmarked just a couple of
• 1:52
  Speaker 5: days after Epstein's suicide. No conspiracy there. It's not too
• 1:56
  Speaker 5: crazy to think that prison officials will need to look
• 1:59
  Speaker 5: at stuff before goes out in the mail. So it's
• 2:01
  Speaker 5: dated just a few days after that suicide. And I
• 2:04
  Speaker 5: will read for you what it said. And as you mentioned, Pam,
• 2:06
  Speaker 5: it's kind of disturbing. This is the letter quote. As
• 2:10
  Speaker 5: you know by now, I have taken the short root home.
• 2:13
  Speaker 5: Good luck. We shared one thing our love and caring
• 2:17
  Speaker 5: for young ladies and the hope that they'd reach their
• 2:19
  Speaker 5: full potential. Our president also shares our love of young
• 2:24
  Speaker 5: New Bile girls, which is obviously the disgusting words of
• 2:27
  Speaker 5: one sexual predator to another. But I should make clear
• 2:31
  Speaker 5: that Donald Trump has never been accused of any sexual
• 2:34
  Speaker 5: wrongdoing by law enforcement, and obviously he's never been charged
• 2:37
  Speaker 5: with any of these Epstein related crimes.
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: And so the short route home reference, do we think
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: that's him talking about dying by suicide because he's because
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: it came out a few days.
• 2:46
  Speaker 5: After the timeline would seem to suggest.
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: So yeah, we're also seeing this twenty twenty one mar
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: alogue subpoena relating to the Gillian Maxwell case. This is
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: new right Do we not know about the subpoena?
• 2:58
  Speaker 4: Tomorologo.
• 2:58
  Speaker 5: I didn't know about it.
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: I told Marshall Cohen, You've been all over the stories.
• 3:01
  Speaker 5: I don't think it was out there before our colleague
• 3:04
  Speaker 5: Michael Williams found it this morning in the batch of
• 3:07
  Speaker 5: thirty thousand documents. A subpoena sent by the Justice Department
• 3:12
  Speaker 5: to Maro a Lago October twenty twenty one, just a
• 3:15
  Speaker 5: few weeks before the start of the Galain Maxwell trial.
• 3:18
  Speaker 5: It is redacted, but it is clear through the redactions
• 3:22
  Speaker 5: that they were looking for employment records about someone we
• 3:26
  Speaker 5: don't know who, But I should point out that we
• 3:29
  Speaker 5: do know that there was one very well known person
• 3:31
  Speaker 5: that did work at mari A Lago when it was
• 3:33
  Speaker 5: actually recruited to work for Epstein, and that was a
• 3:36
  Speaker 5: Virginia Jiuffrey, who was one of Epstein's victims. Not sure
• 3:40
  Speaker 5: if the subpoena is about her, but there's been a
• 3:41
  Speaker 5: lot of talk about her being at both mar A
• 3:44
  Speaker 5: Lago and Epstein's estate, and she died by suicide earlier
• 3:49
  Speaker 5: this year.
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, very sad. How was the DOJ responding to all
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: of these revelations because it put out a statement with
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: this batch, but not yeah, the first one.
• 3:57
  Speaker 5: They went on the offensive this morning, and on offense
• 4:01
  Speaker 5: to defend Donald Trump. Let me read for you what
• 4:05
  Speaker 5: they put out in a tweet this morning as they
• 4:07
  Speaker 5: rolled out this batch of tens of thousands of files.
• 4:10
  Speaker 5: They said, some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist
• 4:14
  Speaker 5: claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the
• 4:17
  Speaker 5: FBI right before the twenty twenty election. To be clear,
• 4:21
  Speaker 5: these claims were unfounded and false. If they had a
• 4:23
  Speaker 5: shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against
• 4:27
  Speaker 5: Trump already. So framing the entire conversation right off the
• 4:31
  Speaker 5: bat to say, if you see stuff about Trump, don't
• 4:34
  Speaker 5: believe it. But as the woman you just spoke to
• 4:37
  Speaker 5: in the last hour made clear, there's a lot of
• 4:39
  Speaker 5: stuff in here that has been vetted and verified. Maxwell
• 4:43
  Speaker 5: was convicted Epstein. Before he was charged with the federal case,
• 4:48
  Speaker 5: he had been convicted in a state case twenty years earlier.
• 4:52
  Speaker 5: So you know, the Justice Department sort of massaging the
• 4:56
  Speaker 5: situation here trying to defend Trump. But as we've seen,
• 4:59
  Speaker 5: there's a lot of stuff in here that has been
• 5:01
  Speaker 5: verified and has vindicated a lot of those victims.
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: All right, Marshall Cohen, thank you as always. I know
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: you and the team have a lot of work going
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: through these documents.
• 5:09
  Speaker 6: Want to bring in Nick Ackerman, former assistant special Watergate prosecutor.
• 5:13
  Speaker 6: He joins us by phone, So Nick, a letter like
• 5:17
  Speaker 6: that from Jeffrey Ebstein in the days before he took
• 5:22
  Speaker 6: his own life. Epstein, of course, who had a plea
• 5:24
  Speaker 6: deal from years before and was accused of sexual abuse
• 5:27
  Speaker 6: at the time he wrote it, a letter like that
• 5:29
  Speaker 6: written to another sex abuser, does it have any legal significance, Well, I.
• 5:36
  Speaker 4: Don't know how much legal significance it has. It certainly
• 5:40
  Speaker 4: corroborates what we've heard from other victims that Donald Trump
• 5:46
  Speaker 4: had an inclination to grab women and miss hues his
• 5:51
  Speaker 4: positioned in various ways before he became president. And it's
• 5:55
  Speaker 4: consistent with all these other people have said. And it's
• 5:58
  Speaker 4: also consistent with Donald Trump's fiftieth birthday wish to Jeffrey Epstein.
• 6:04
  Speaker 4: So whether or not this would be admissible in a
• 6:06
  Speaker 4: court of law is a whole different story. But certainly
• 6:10
  Speaker 4: from a political standpoint, and from the fact that this
• 6:13
  Speaker 4: is something that Jeffrey Epstein is saying. We know that
• 6:16
  Speaker 4: they were very close and they're very good friends, and
• 6:20
  Speaker 4: that this is pretty damning. I mean to go on
• 6:24
  Speaker 4: with this letter. It says in that letter, when a
• 6:27
  Speaker 4: young beauty walked by, he looked to grab snatch, whereas
• 6:30
  Speaker 4: we ended up snatching grubbed in the mess halls of
• 6:33
  Speaker 4: the system, meaning the prison system. And he signed it
• 6:37
  Speaker 4: saying life is unfair yours, Jay Epstein. So you've got
• 6:42
  Speaker 4: two essentially abusers that are writing to each other, and
• 6:48
  Speaker 4: in the course of that Jeffrey Epstein references Donald Trump,
• 6:52
  Speaker 4: who has gotten away with all of this.
• 6:55
  Speaker 6: It is worth ooting, obviously that President Trump or Donald
• 6:57
  Speaker 6: Trump not charged with anything in connection with Jeffrey Epstein
• 7:02
  Speaker 6: at all. It's also possible that Jeffrey Epstein was trying
• 7:06
  Speaker 6: to stick it to Donald Trump, who was president at
• 7:09
  Speaker 6: this point the moment that the letter was written of
• 7:13
  Speaker 6: greater perhaps legal significance.
• 7:15
  Speaker 4: Nick.
• 7:15
  Speaker 6: Is the other information that came out overnight a letter
• 7:18
  Speaker 6: written by an attorney for the Southern District of New
• 7:20
  Speaker 6: York which indicated, and this is a verbatim, that Donald
• 7:24
  Speaker 6: Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than
• 7:27
  Speaker 6: previously had been recorded, or that we were aware and
• 7:31
  Speaker 6: at times on two of the flights, two of the
• 7:35
  Speaker 6: passengers were women who would be possible witnesses in a
• 7:39
  Speaker 6: Glain Maxwell case. Now, again, this letter was written at
• 7:43
  Speaker 6: the time late in Donald Trump's first term, when he
• 7:46
  Speaker 6: was president. But the idea that Trump had been on
• 7:50
  Speaker 6: a plane with two people who were witnesses potentially in
• 7:53
  Speaker 6: a federal case was the significance there.
• 7:57
  Speaker 4: Well. The significance is that Donald Trump would of course
• 8:00
  Speaker 4: be a potential witness as well, which means that he
• 8:04
  Speaker 4: could have been called at the trial of Gislaine Maxwell.
• 8:08
  Speaker 4: So that's pretty shocking. The fact that he could have
• 8:13
  Speaker 4: been called was a witness. That's something that I don't
• 8:15
  Speaker 4: think has been reported before. And it also goes to
• 8:19
  Speaker 4: Donald Trump's knowledge of what Epstein was doing. I mean,
• 8:22
  Speaker 4: don't forget. He's been backing off at every point he can,
• 8:25
  Speaker 4: claiming that he had no idea that Jeffrey Epstein was
• 8:28
  Speaker 4: doing anything illegal. But as these Epstein files come out,
• 8:32
  Speaker 4: with the drip drip drip, we have learned that Donald
• 8:36
  Speaker 4: Trump knew a bit more than he's acknowledged. For example,
• 8:40
  Speaker 4: there's the email of April second, twenty and eleven, where
• 8:47
  Speaker 4: it reflects an email between Epstein and Maxwell where it
• 8:52
  Speaker 4: says that Donald Trump spent hours in Epstein's house with Virginia,
• 8:59
  Speaker 4: who is one of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein's you know,
• 9:04
  Speaker 4: sexual escapades.
• 9:06
  Speaker 6: Of course, Virginia's Giffrey, before she died, said that Donald
• 9:10
  Speaker 6: Trump did not do anything wrong or untour. And it's
• 9:13
  Speaker 6: also worth noting that the plane trips in question here
• 9:15
  Speaker 6: between nineteen ninety three and nineteen ninety six, a time
• 9:19
  Speaker 6: before Epstein was charged with anything. Nick Ackerman, A lot
• 9:23
  Speaker 6: of contexts here, a lot of new information coming out,
• 9:25
  Speaker 6: seeing it, continues to sift through it. Thank you very much,