grateful that the jury believed us and sent a strong message that perpetrators of sexual abuse and exploitation will be held accountable no matter how much power and privilege that they have. joining me now is former bbc investigative reporter and creator of the hunting ghislaine podcast, john sweeney. he s also writing a book of the same name that will explore this case. that will be out in april. john, good to have you. you have covered this entire case, the epstein case, for years. so when it was stretching into day six of deliberations, did you think she would be found guilty? i ll be honest with you, no, i said they re not going to do it. there was a particularly bleak moment when the jury asked for the evidence of professor of the professor who believes in false memory.
these federal investigations, very torturous and expensive, they threaten indictments, which can ruin your life, and what that does is they are basically extorting silence from their political opponents. no one is ever going to stop them unless parents stand up. dana: any role here for the fbi? jeanine: absolutely not. if there s a problem, you call the local police, the sheriff department, you call the d.a. the last person you want to call is the fbi, because we know how they botched this, whether it is the larry nassar case from the olympics, or what would be the parkland school shootings. i could go on and on: the epstein case, on and on. they have no role in this. the fbi likes to get involved with a get a lot of headlines. let s focus more on the issue: what is important here? what is important as parents have a fundamental right to decide what s going to be in their child s education. these are not people who don t have a say. it s their children, not the state s children.
epstein used by jeffrey epstein several times. yesterday his lawyers said the passport was never used and its purpose was to try to convince potential terrorists that jeffrey epstein is not jewish. it contains his residence to be saudi arabia. prosecutors said the passport contains numerous stamps that reflect use of the passport to enter france, spain, the united kingdom and saudi arabia in the 80s. in vanity fair, the epstein case could create problems for more people outside the courtroom than just donald trump. they represent some of the women ho accused jeffrey epstein of abusing them said nobody around epstein a lot is going to have an easy time now. it s all going to come out. another person involved with
prosecutors said the passport contains numerous stamps that reflect use of the passport to enter france, spain, the united kingdom and saudi arabia in the 80s. in vanity fair, the epstein case could create problems for more people outside the courtroom than just donald trump. they represent some of the women ho accused jeffrey epstein of abusing them said nobody around epstein a lot is going to have an easy time now. it s all going to come out. another person involved with litigation said it s going to be staggering, the amount of names. after a break, joyce vance will join us with what she expects to see in court tomorrow. in court . limu emu & doug
it typically refers to government officials, state or federal. that s who that group is normally targeting. in the new york times columnist michelle goldberg writes that jeffrey epstein is the ultimate symbol of plutocratic rot. reading here, the epstein case is first and foremost about the casual victimization of vulnerable girls and it s a political scandal. if not a partisan one. it reveals the deep corruption among mostly male elites across parties and the way the very rich with purchase impunity for the most loathsome of crimes. if it were fiction it would be both too sordid and on the those to be believable, like a season of true detective penned by a doctrinaire marxist. he socialized with donald trump who in 2002 described him as a terrific guy, whom he had known for is a years. it s even said that he likes