Epstein survivors open MS NOW's segment on the House Democrats' Trump report
On Deadline: White House, Jamie Raskin tells Nicolle Wallace that "the cover-up is staring us in the face" and again calls for an independent special counsel, one week before the midterms.
Why this story? One of MS NOW's most watched videos since yesterday, with 636,540 views.
BOMBSHELL new report on Trump's alleged Epstein ties TERRIFIES Republicans one week before midterms
Things we can learn from the video
Press to jump
- 0:00Epstein survivors at a Detroit press conference demand answers and accountability, saying "the bill is overdue."
- 0:52Wallace introduces the House Judiciary Democrats' 50-page staff report on Trump's alleged ties to Epstein.
- 1:34Wallace goes through the report's main claims, including the accusation that the Justice Department covered up evidence.
- 4:00Raskin says the department is not cooperating with investigations and has cut off state and international authorities.
- 5:45Raskin points to Ghislaine Maxwell's transfer to a lower-security prison as part of what he calls a cover-up.
- 9:40Raskin repeats the Democrats' call for an independent special counsel to investigate Epstein's co-conspirators.
The segment opens in Detroit, where two survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse stand at a podium. "For decades," one says, survivors "were left to carry the consequences." The other puts their demand more briefly: "Well, the bill is overdue."
A sign on the podium reads "The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room." From there, Nicolle Wallace's Deadline: White House turns to the document behind the day's attention. It is a 50-page staff report from Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, its cover headed "We Have Certain Things In Common, Jeffrey." The report says it lays out the case against Trump emerging from the Epstein files, and it accuses the Justice Department of a "desperate" effort to cover that case up. Wallace goes further on air, saying the attorney general "may have engaged in criminal obstruction of justice."
Her guest is Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the committee's ranking Democrat. He says the department "is not cooperating with any of those investigations" and has cut off state and international authorities. He presents Ghislaine Maxwell's transfer to a lower-security prison as part of that pattern. "The cover-up is staring us in the face," he says. His remedy is the one Democrats have pressed before: an independent special counsel to take the matter out of the Justice Department's hands.
Raskin has taken the report to other programs today. What this version adds is the survivors' own voices from Detroit, placed ahead of the politics. The allegations belong to the report and to the people quoted, and the segment includes no response from the Justice Department.
The video drew about 640,000 views in its first six hours, more than any other new MS NOW upload since yesterday. In that time it also gathered more comments than the channel's regular videos usually collect in a full first day.
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