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Mitch McCann: US correspondent on emails claiming Trump spent hours with a victim of Jeffrey Epstein · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Cisco's Stateside with Mitch McCann. Mitch, the latest Epstein from
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  Speaker 1: beyond the Grave. These Epstein emails keep coming, and this
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  Speaker 1: one mentions Trump quite specifically.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, Good morning, Ryan. New allegations this morning
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  Speaker 2: that suggests Donald Trump may have known more about the
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  Speaker 2: exploits of Jeffrey Epstein than he has led on. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the context of this is that the administration has been
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  Speaker 2: under a lot of appreciator release of all the Epstein files,
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  Speaker 2: these documents and emails, which some believ will shed light
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  Speaker 2: to the extent of his crimes and may disclose the
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  Speaker 2: involvement of other high profile names. Now, House Democrats have
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  Speaker 2: released emails today from Epstein's estate. Now keep in mind
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  Speaker 2: here before I read them, that Donald Trump has always
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  Speaker 2: said he wasn't involved or had any knowledge of Jeffrey
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  Speaker 2: Epstein's crimes. This is one email from April twenty eleven.
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  Speaker 2: Epstein wrote to Gilaine Maxwell. He said, I want you
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  Speaker 2: to realize that the dog that hasn't barked a is Trump.
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  Speaker 2: He also added an unnamed victim spent hours at my
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  Speaker 2: house with him. He has never once been mentioned. And
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  Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen he wrote to the author Michael Wolfe
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  Speaker 2: about Donald trum of coursing you about the girls as
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  Speaker 2: he asked Elaine to stop. Now, the White House sees
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  Speaker 2: these stories and nothing more than bad faith efforts to
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  Speaker 2: distract from his historical accomplishments. The White House is due
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  Speaker 2: to speak at a press briefing in about an hour,
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  Speaker 2: and you can expect that conversation will dominate the press
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  Speaker 2: briefing much.
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  Speaker 1: Where are we at with releasing the full files? So
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  Speaker 1: it hasn't happened yet.
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  Speaker 2: Day, It hasn't happened yet, and the White House sees
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  Speaker 2: there's essentially no need to do so. But I think
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  Speaker 2: this will increase the pressure on them. Caroline Leavitt will
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  Speaker 2: be asked about this and Donald Trump later in the day.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, one of the big issues for Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump is this just keeps coming up. I think you
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  Speaker 2: said beyond the Grave. It keeps coming up every couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks, and it's really infuriating Trump and it's really
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  Speaker 2: upsetting many of his base because he campaigned on releasing
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  Speaker 2: all the files. So I think this increases the pressure
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  Speaker 2: to do so.
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  Speaker 1: It does a much Thank you for that much, McCann,
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  Speaker 1: and you is correspondence for.
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