on a singular message that this election will decide whether american democracies survives. will those words move voters? plus, the u.s. scrambling today to find partners for peace in the middle east, even as the israel-hamas war threatens to spin out of control. will secretary of state antony blinken s fourth trip overseas break new ground. and a new front in the war of transgender rights. the stakes are high whether trans americans can run for office using the names they choose. i ll talk to vanessa joy who says she was kis disqualified from her race in ohio because of a law she believes could put other trans candidates at risk. we start with the president s massive political gamble, betting that voters will rally around him as the defender of democracy and reject donald trump s dystopian vision of america. that message is at the heart of a big speech he ll give near valley forge this afternoon and is expected to be the framework for his campaign going forward. they d
ghislaine maxwell trial, the indictment of jeffrey epstein, the idea that these were, quote, unquote massages and would often turn sexual, that s where the alleged sexual abuse occurred. when you look at this, he goes through they had a whole process set up to bring in these underage girls. they had no experience. they were recruited. they were brought in, and it matches a lot of the evidence that we heard during the maxwell trial. it just shows the type of machine in a really horrible way that he had set up to be able to get these women in to commit horrible crimes against them. do we have any idea more documents and when? definitely more documents as soon as today. a number of the documents that came out yesterday were some medical files and health files attached to virginia giuffre. going forward here, and it s no surprise following the judge s order, a lot of these names and a lot of the things we re starting to see we ve seen before. they re motions that we have
the mob is dead. jeffrey epstein in this substance. it says, okay, but you had a number two. it alleges that the number two, ghislaine maxwell, was running the criminal enterprise day to day. the things that i experienced, that i being jennifer in this case, the things that i experienced what occurred with jeffrey epstein was as a result of maxwell. that s her allegation. a result of her efforts to keep this running, to keep recruiters going out, finding new girls to bring to jeffrey epstein. for him to have these quote, unquote massages and for the sexual contact. and even a rape to occur. she knew everything. she was running it. and she has her hands on the controls. talk to me quickly about the latest on the investigation, the conditions at this correctional
neither trump or clinton are was implicated in epstein s alleged crimes. we have a team of analysts covering it all. epstein will make his first appearance since his arrest. and former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. and politics reporter for the wall street journal , along with senior writer for politico and msnbc political contributor jake sherman. tom, i know this indictment just came out within the last couple of minutes here. i think you have had a chance to look through it. it is a wide-ranging indictment that lays out pretty disturbing charges against epstein. yeah. that s absolutely right, hallie. here s how the scheme looked. basically what happened here is epstein had several of his employees recruit underage victims, underage girls to come and perform quote, unquote massages, which turned out to be usually anything but.
case with epstein of course with the first set of charges against him just completely contained by i believe now a cabinet official who was working in florida. what are the possibilities right now for epstein and for others to face charges, more charges linked to all of this? well, the possibilities are not good, mika. and you re correct to point out others involved. at the time last night i went through the palm beach police department s case file and they were prepared to move against epstein s assistants and to charge them as well with the recruiting girls and knowing that they were underaged and knowing what they were being recruited for to give quote/unquote massages, that were sexual encounters. i think when you look at who was brought here and when you look at the state case file, the evidence that they uncovered,