Name: "It's Not Political For Them, It's Personal" - Kaitlan Collins On Epstein Survivors
Uploaded: 2026-02-18T17:21:52.000Z
Duration: 3 min 26 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

Hey, everybody, it's CNN's Kaitlan Collins.

Modal verbs - A2

Why do you think the American public is not as ready to turn the page on the Epstein files as the president suggests they should be?

To-infinitive

And the press secretary said last week during a briefing that the country, it's time to move on.

It's Republicans and Democrats alike who want answers.

And really what they want is accountability here.

Can I do a little follow up on that for just a second here?

Is that isn't it weird that the Justice Department has all this information and yet they're saying that individual people out there can pour through it and they can point out things to the Justice Department if they would like, but

And lawyers are going through this, obviously, and lawmakers can go and look at the documents themselves.

But we had this surreal moment on my show last week where Thomas Massie, one of the Republicans from Kentucky who wrote this bill, it's a pretty short law that you can go and read that the president was obviously had his hand forced to sign.

He found a name that was redacted, that he looked up where he could see where it was unredacted, and

he said it shouldn't be redacted on our show.

About 20 minutes before he came on, he had tweeted it out, and

Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, then, quote, tweeted it and unredacted the name.

And Thomas Massie found out in real time on this show, and

he pointed it out to the attorney general last week, and she was saying, well, we corrected it.

But his point was, had he not pointed it out, would it have been unredacted?

And I think your point is great, that it's not just Republicans.

This is not a political issue they've tried to make to say that anyone who was in that position of power or abused these women and underage girls, many of them at the time, that they should be brought to account and held to have justice for these women.

It seems like the lowest bar we can cross as a society is to hold people who traffic children to account, no matter what their political persuasion is.

And I think, you know, we've interviewed so many of these women, and

they're powerful and this has shaped their lives.

But many of them were so incredibly young when this happened.

And there was one survivor who said, gave this quote, I believe, to the Miami Herald and said that Jeffrey Epstein went after women that he thought no one would care about and that no one would believe.

And to see these women who for decades were ignored by the FBI or attorneys or prosecutors, finally feel that they have some semblance of that, I think is really powerful.

I mean, these women, all they want is accountability.

The Source with Kaitlan Collins airs weeknights on cnn.

We'll be right back with New York Times best selling author Walter Isaacson.

Subtitles ListPlay Video

"It's Not Political For Them, It's Personal" - Kaitlan Collins On Epstein Survivors

weird

incredibly

individual

controversial