trump on tape acknowledging he kept a classified document after leaving the white house. what it could mean for the ongoing doj investigation. one of the most powerful bank ceos in the world deposed for hours in a lawsuit over jeffrey epstein s sex trafficking crimes. what lawyers want to know about jpmorgan s long time relationship with epstein. amazon will shell out more than $30 million after being accused of violating user privacy for years. this is cnn news central. we begin with a story you saw first on cnn. federal prosecutors now have a tape of former president trump acknowledging that he held on to a classified pentagon document and suggesting that he wanted to share it but had a limited ability to declassify records after leaving office. the tape is from a meeting at his new jersey golf club in the summer of 2021 with the team working on mark meadows autobiography. while cnn has not obtained the recording, multiple sources have described it saying the tape
from a legal perspective? well, from a legal perspective, we would pursue whatever rights we had against that person. however, if that person was also a victim, we would probably have some sympathy towards them, and we might not proceed if they were also a victim of epstein. you think that s possible? yeah, it s actually highly likely. there s also a lawsuit that you have that s been filed against les wexner, former ceo of victoria s secret. you have accused him of enabling epstein. he s been named in some of these documents as recently as this week. he says that he cut ties with epstein in 2007, he told investors that in 2019? i mean, the fact of the matter is that i have a lawsuit against him under the child victims act. and, you know, he gave them his home to commit these heinous crimes.
believed that he was engaged in ongoing sex trafficking operation, epstein would not have been retained as a client. in hindsight we regret that he was a client. now, dimon did acknowledge that he is now aware that some jpmorgan employees knew epstein was charged with sex crimes involving cash and that he was moving large amounts of money around in his accounts in 2007. and jpmorgan has sued a former banker there, jess daly, known to be a friend of epstein. the badge ank alleges that is h blame but staley denied all wrongdoing. who is filing these lawsuits? the government of the u.s. virgin islands, remember he had an island getaway there, they are suing the bank and also a woman who goes by the name jane doe who says that she was a victim of epstein. and they both say essentially this is where the money was kept, these were bank accounts epstein used to pay cash for his
epstein. sources who knew them during this time told me that he insisted she lose weight. and she did. that he could be incredibly abusive to her in public, and she put up with it in silence. is maxwell also a victim of epstein s abuse and manipulation, do you think? what do you make of that question, and do you expect the defense to play up that angle? so, it s complicated, jim. we did hear from from him on how all articles of clothing would be asked to be removed and how
girls, even being in the room when epstein abused them, but defense bobbi sternheim question that, telling the jury maxwell is a convenient stand in for the man who can not be here. epstein dade in august 2019 while waiting trial in what officially is criewld a suicide. maxwell had been in federal custody since june 2020, not far from the federal prison in manhattan where epstein was found hanging in his cell. six counts in the indictment, the most severe which is sexual traffic of minors. if ghislaine maxwell is convicted of that count, she may spend the rest of her life in prison. reporter: maxwell s trial is expected to last through the holidays and it s unclear if she ll take the stand in her defense, possibly portraying herself as a victim of epstein s as well.