Name: Epstein files: Britain’s former Prince Andrew arrested
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Britain's former Prince Andrew has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

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Now known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, he was taken into custody in Norfolk just a short while ago.

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He is accused of allegedly sharing confidential information with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein Batten Windsor has previously denied any wrongdoing over his ties to Epstein.

King Charles had stripped his brother of his titles back in October and has since evicted him from Windsor.

Let's get Back down on CNN's Salma Abdelaziz, who joins us live in London.

Salma, what's the latest that you're hearing?

I want to start by asking maybe questions of what we don't know and what we do know so far.

So we do know that he's been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, but

there's a lot of details that are still missing here, of course.

Rahel, we don't know the specifics of the allegations of this investigation by the police.

We're talking about a period of time between 2001 to 2011 when he was representing the UK as a trade envel.

But what are the specific allegations, the specific accusations of misconduct?

What information actually prompted Tim's Valley Police to make this arrest?

That's the key question here because we understand that they have been assessing this claim for some time now.

That latest trove of emails where we see these allegations come to light has been out for a few weeks now.

What was it that the police held onto that said, okay, now is the time when we need to take this very extraordinary action.

Of course, in this country, we also don't know where Andrew Windsor is currently being held.

But we don't know any details beyond that or what the status of that is in terms of his arrest.

And we still don't know if he's been interviewed under caution.

That's what it's described as in this country.

So essentially has he been asked questions?

Has he sat down with a police officer and been asked questions as and where has he been asked these questions?

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, former Prince Andrew, who only earlier this month was forced out of the royal residence, pushed into his brother's residence, the Sandringham Estate, which is currently being searched by police, has now faced A watershed moment, really, not just for himself, but

for the royal family and really for this country at large.

Now, again, being arrested does not mean being guilty.

We do not know the specifics here of why the police have taken this extraordinary action of arrest.

But you can imagine that the royal family is reeling.

King Charles has been trying to get ahead of this time and time again.

Last year, he stripped his brother of all his royal titles.

I said he's pushed him out of the royal residence.

He even took this really extraordinary step of preempting the possibility of this happening right now by saying he was willing to support the police in any inquiry that they had.

So there's going to be a sense in this country, first of all, that this has caught up with Prince Andrew.

He has been long under question, long under suspicion for his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, a relationship that he appears to have lied about in the past, saying that he ended his relationship with Mr.

Epstein once he was a convicted sex offender.

Now, in these latest email troves, that does not appear to be the case.

And it is now clear that he did continue that relationship after Epstein was convicted.

It is that information that led King Charles to strip him of his royal titles, to take these extraordinary steps to try to get ahead of what's happening here.

There is going to be also a bit of empathy, I imagine, in this country for his family, the York family, as they are known here.

He has two young daughters, they're in their 30s.

Their faces have been splashed all over the media for the last few days.

So, so many questions here swirling around what is, first of all, a family, a family that represents this country, the monarchy, as an institution, and

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor represented it as a trade envoy.

And I did write down some details of the emails that could be in question here.

Around 2010, he appears to have forwarded government report visits, details of those visits in Vietnam, Singapore, China.

There are emails that indicate that Mountbatten Windsor forwarded investment, investment opportunities for gold and uranium in Afghanistan.

He had a duty of confidentiality between 2001 and 2011, as trade envoy.

Did he violate the pact for confidentiality?

That is the question the police are asking right now.

The details around that we have yet to know.

So this is the kind of story where it generates a flurry of text links, people trying to put together what they know.

Now, can you remind us the state of play here in the US Right now?

Like, who is investigating what at this point?

Well, that's a question that we don't actually know the full answer to.

The House Oversight Committee is pursuing some depositions with the former Victoria's Secret owner.

And he's a major donor, which is why people are focused on him.

And the question of whether Bill and Hillary Clinton, what their testimony will look like, that's been going back and forth, but

But I think that the thing that is notable here is that so far, the fallout from the Epstein files, which, by the way, have still not been fully released, despite the law that said that they needed to be, the fallout has been not in America, not in American politics, in ways that people have really been feeling, the kinds of results that have been happening in Europe or people even stepping away from business dealings in the United States.

There are a lot of political figures who keep coming up in these documents.

Documents are not necessarily things that implicate guilty behavior.

But we have from the Justice Department from the beginning, this statement that there was nothing, there was nothing to follow up on in terms of criminal investigation.

That statement coming at the front of the release when we see that other things have been followed up.

I want to add one more thing to that, because Prince Andrew in the past has denied the allegations of sexual abuse from people like the late Virginia Giuffre.

I just want to read something, just because the paper happens to be in front of me.

New York Times are talking about the Commerce Secretary, Ludnick, and they mentioned that he's.

It says he's not the only prominent Trump administration official to appear.

The records show that RFK Jr. Obviously of DHS, once went hunting for dinosaur fossils with Mr. Epstein.

An email file shows that Dr. Mehmet Oz, who's at CMMS, invited Mr.

None of these things are criminal, but they're also part of this dialogue that says the elites.

And also in 2016, he was a convicted pedophile.

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