Former top assistants. Thats gislein maxwell. We know from Police Records and Court Documents and other things that maxwell is one of the alleged people whos really procuring these underaged girls for these quote on quote massages which turned into sexual encounters. And Jeffrey Epstein has pleaded guilty to some of that already. Obviously, he faces a criminal indictment by federal prosecutors here in new york now. And its a defamation suit because of a statement that maxwell made a Public Statement that she made about some of virginia jofreys allegations. So thats where were at today. A number of the filings in that case were sealed. So this is going through the federal court system. They have since settled the terms of that settlement havent been made public. But the public us we cant see it just the attorneys and the parties to the case. To be clear, you deal with this all the time. These things get sealed because of an arrangement between the judge and the parties to the suit . Yes
despite the uncertainty over the last day or so that with the acting dni nomination or selection of admiral maguire, that is actually a good sign. what is the danger of the acting part of that? the danger of the acting isn t so much again the qualities of the individual who selected. it s more the my understanding through another federal statute called the vacancy act is that that acting physician even for someone like admiral maguire who s been confirmed already as the director of the national counterterrorism center can only last in that acting capacity for 300 days. if my understanding of that statute is correct. javed al is a former senior director at the national security council. ben is a senior member of the foreign relations committee. we have been talking for years but we re never in the same place, so good to see you here. i want to ask you about the idea