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What's up everyone? And welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. We've talked a bunch about how people have whitewashed what happened with Jeffrey Epstein for years and years and years. And when I say people, I don't just mean individuals. I'm talking about whole ass news stations. You see, when I make these allegations, however, I show up with receipts. And today's no different. We're going to talk about the leaked tape and how ABC News killed an interview with with Virginia Roberts about Jeffrey Epstein. You want to talk about conspiracy theories, you want to talk about people whitewashing the story and trying to rewrite history? Well, all you have to do is take a look at the legacy media and that's exactly what they've been doing for decades. So let's get into this article from Vox and let's take a trip back to November 5th of 2019 and let's see what sort of nonsense ABC was getting into. Leaked tape. ABC News killed an interview with an accuser of Jeffrey Epstein. The tape suggests that ABC News stopped its own anchor from reporting on Epstein's crimes in order to preserve access to the Royal family. This article was authored by Jane Coston. Now remember, this is coming on the heels of what we just learned about Buckingham palace and Scotland Yard protecting Prince Andrew. Now why would you think any less of ABC trying to protect him? Especially considering they don't want to lose their access to the Royal Family. Just look how goo goo people are for the Royal family. Just look at what's going on on your tv. Now don't get me wrong, it's a sad day. Lady dies, 96 years old, country mourns. Great. Shouldn't be my country. We shouldn't have this fixation with these royals, with the monarchy, with the Queen, with Prince Andrew that some people do. And I will never understand it. Hero worship is very weird to me. But at these major news stations, places like abc, the last thing they want to do is lose access to the Royal family. And even if that means quashing a story about one of the most notorious sex traffickers of all time. Oh, doesn't ABC own Disney? By the way, news of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged sexual assault and trafficking crimes involving his circle of famous friends could have broken years earlier, but it was quashed by television network executives, according to a video released by a right leaning activist group on Tuesday. In the video, obtained by Project Veritas, ABC News anchor Amy Robach complains to a producer off air that she had convinced one of Epstein's survivors, Virginia Roberts, to speak on record about her allegations against Epstein and others reportedly involved in Epstein's web of sex trafficking, including former President Bill Clinton, attorney Alan Dershowitz and Prince Andrew. But she continues, abc refused to run the story in order to keep access to the British royal family. Now, again, when I get up here and I rant about the legacy media, it's not just because I feel like ranting about them or because I have nothing else to talk about. They have been an incredible impediment on the way to justice here. And you would think it would be the reverse. You would think that these news stations, these anchors, these journalists would be falling over themselves to let these survivors get on air and tell their story. But they weren't willing to do it. And if it wasn't for social media and if it wasn't for the way that these survivors could go directly to you, the people, their story would have never been told. We would not put the Epstein story on air. First of all, I was told, who's Jeffrey Epstein? No one knows who that is. This is a stupid story, she says on the tape. Then the palace found out that we had our whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways. So that's your great lady the Queen. The palace threatened ABC a million different ways. So tired of hearing about the palace this, the palace that, the palace, how about that? Run home and tell that to the palace. You want to talk about organized crime? But these people were busy protecting Andrew at every turn, and his mother was busy enabling him. And those are just the facts. Referring to Kate Middleton and Prince William and the network's desire to interview the pair, she said, we were so afraid we wouldn't be able to interview Kate and Will that we also quashed the story. And she added, it was unbelievable what we had. But Bill Clinton, we had everything. I tried for three years to get it on, to no avail. And now it's all coming out and it's like these new revelations and I freaking had all of it. I'm so pissed right now. Every day I get more and more pissed. What we had was unreal. And this is Amy Robock from ABC News saying this in her own words, so it's not even like they can spin it. Roberts detailed her own disappointment with ABC News decision to kill the interview in August of this year in an email to npr, she wrote, I view the ABC interview as a potential game changer. Appearing on abc, with its wide viewership, would have been the first time for me to speak out against the government for Basically looking the other way and to describe the anger and betrayal survivors felt. So instead of giving Virginia Roberts a platform to tell her story, abc, espn, the whole caboodle of companies that fall under the umbrella thought it would be a better idea to safeguard their access to the royal family. Now you tell me that ABC or the legacy media should be trusted when we're talking about this story. So where's NPR and their whole write up about how ABC quashed this story? You notice the narrative that they try to preach, right? That they try and spin to you. And that narrative is this is all a big conspiracy theory and, and only crazy people think anything went wrong here. That's what they want you to think. But the truth is that they've been whitewashing this the whole entire time so that people don't get the full scope of it. Appearing on abc, with its wide viewership, would have been the first time for me to speak out against the government for basically looking the other way and to describe the anger and betrayal survivors felt. Just to reiterate that that's what Virginia wanted to do. That was her goal. She wanted to get on ABC and reach a wider audience and tell her story. But instead ABC decided, let's quash it and we'll keep our access to the Royals because that's more important. To hear about their ideas about the environment or for them to tell us about tea and crumpets or about whatever the hell the Royals want to tell us about. And as if we should care what they have to say. In response to the tape's release, ABC News released a statement from Robach in which she appeared to backtrack on statements made in the tape, saying, as a journalist, as the Epstein story continued to unfold last summer, I was caught in a private moment of frustration, adding that ABC News never told her to stop reporting on the serial predator. I mean, for real. Talk about backtracking. Straight garbage, absolute garbage. She knew that they had the goods. She knew she was frustrated. And instead of doing the right thing and pushing back against the company, she was scared to lose her cushy ass bazillion dollar job reading the teleprompter, right? Because that's what she does. She's a teleprompter reader. These people aren't journalists. The tape shows the extent of how Epstein's attachments to the rich, famous and powerful. His collection, as he called it in a 2002 interview, made it difficult for journalists and others to investigate his crimes as news agencies and others were unwilling to risk the ire of royals and politicians alike in order to learn just how many young women Epstein and his allies abused. Now, folks, remember, for those of you who might think this is a skewered article or it's biased, it's from Vox. How much more to the left does it get than Vox News? And they're telling you the same thing everybody else is telling you. The legacy media was in on it. They whitewashed it. They safeguarded Jeffrey Epstein and his reputation and at the same time, they denied the survivors a platform to tell their story. What we know about Epstein and Prince Andrew as my colleague Anna north and I have detailed, the serious allegations against Jeffrey Epstein, who died in August, were while awaiting trial for sex trafficking are coupled with questions about how he was able to get away with abusing young women again and again. The money manager was accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls, bringing them to his home for massages during which he masturbated or had intercourse with them. He was indicted in 2007, but as Julie K. Brown reported at the Miami Herald, he ultimately just got 13 months in a county jail thanks to a deal signed by U S Attorney Alexander Acosta, who would later become Secretary of Labor under President Trump. The allegations Robach was allegedly attempting to report on back in 2015 center on the testimony of Virginia Roberts, who at the age of 15 was working as a towel girl at Mar a Lago resort when she says she was recruited by Epstein's co conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell to begin giving massages to the money manager as reported by POLITICO in 2017. Roberts asserts in her complaint that Maxwell, the sole defendant in the suit and the daughter of late publishing magnate Robert Maxwell, routinely recruited underage girls for Epstein and was doing so when she approached the $9 an hour locker room attendant at Mar a Lago in 1999 about giving massages to the wealthy investment banker. Now this was the M.O. of Ghislaine Maxwell. She would approach these girls in different settings, schools, whatever it was, and try and recruit them for Epstein's disgusting, dastardly behavior. According to Roberts, those massages turned into severe sexual abuse and trafficking, as Roberts has alleged in court filings that as the New Yorker detailed in August of this year, Epstein lent her out the sex for his friends. Those friends allegedly include well known attorney Alan Dershowitz, one of Epstein's attorneys who helped the serial predator get a sweetheart deal from prosecutors. Robert sued Dershowitz in April of this year after Dershowitz accused her of lying about his alleged abuse. And according to npr, it was a call from Dershowitz that allegedly may have led to ABC News quiet washing the story. So again, folks, I ask you, why is ABC News so scared of people like Epstein? Why are they scared of people like Dershowitz? If you have the goods and you're reporting correctly, you shouldn't be worried about anything. But the allegations noted in the news tapes also reference Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, the third child of Queen Elizabeth II and longtime friend of of Epstein. Epstein and Andrew were so close that the Duke arranged for Epstein to help pay off $15,000 in debts owed to a former personal assistant of Prince Andrew's former wife, Sarah Footy Ferguson, an arrangement that took place several years after Epstein was already a convicted sex offender. So Prince Andrew took money from Jeffrey Epstein, which was probably ill gotten gains. So if this was a RICO case, he you get caught up in it, right? You wonder why it's not a RICO case. Well, all of the evidence is right here on the wall for you. In 2011, Ferguson admitted to the arrangement, telling the Daily Telegraph, I am just so contrite I cannot say whenever I can, I will repay the money and will have nothing ever to do with Jeffrey Epstein ever again. Always the story, right? But you took the money when he was already a convicted sex offender. According to claims made by Roberts in court proceedings and elsewhere, Epstein forced her to have sex with Prince Andrew on multiple occasions in New York, London and on Epstein's private island, Little St. James, while Roberts was underage. And while Prince Andrew has denied the allegations, flight logs released in 2015 backed up Roberts claims. And the Duke and Roberts were photographed together. Those supporters of Andrew say the photograph is fake. I mean for real. If that photograph is fake, I'm 16ft tall and I'm a giant who lives beyond the wall in Westeros. As detailed by NPR in August, Robach and her colleague Jim Hill spoke to Roberts at length about her allegations against Epstein, Dershowitz and Prince Andrew. In 2015, the ABC News team of Amy Robach and Jim Hill secured an interview with Roberts. In a sequence of events confirmed by the network, producers paid for Roberts and her family to fly from Colorado, where they live, to New York City and put them up at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on Central Park South. Robach and her news crew interviewed Roberts on tape for more than an hour about Epstein and his entourage. Imagine going through all of this and then quashing it, just sitting on the interview, destroying it. At the time in 2015, Epstein was walking around A free man comparing his criminal behavior to stealing a bagel. Roberts writes in an email to npr. I really wanted a spotlight shown on him and the others who acted with him and enabled his vile and shameless conduct against young girls and young women. But ABC couldn't be bothered to do that. They were way too busy doing whatever it is they were doing. We're just getting started. The group that released the tape, Project Veritas, targets news organizations and left leaning groups by secretly filming or recording recording them and occasionally deceiving them in order to capture members of those entities taking part in illegal, abusive or bad behavior in order to expose corruption. Look, if you're going to do that, I say go for it. As long as you're not breaking any laws while you do it, you're well within your scope as a journalist or an investigative reporter. Founded by James O' Keefe in 2010, the controversial group has been credited by right leaning observers for his efforts to take part in undercover in undercover journalism. But it gained national and unwanted attention in 2017, attempting to sell the Washington Post on blatantly false allegations against sex sexual assault in an effort to prove the allegations of misconduct against failed Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore were equally fake. It did not work. All right, whatever. Who cares about all of that? But the ABC News tape differs in a number of important ways. The tape was not created by syrup surreptitious recording by a Project Veritas member. Rather, the recording was obtained and leaked by the group to the public. And the network itself has not denied the tapes is legitimate or or claimed it was falsely edited, which Project Veritas has done in the past. And that's why I thought that this tape was better than some of the other stuff that they released. It was just a pure tape from ABC News that was leaked. So it wasn't like an alter tape where there was editing or anything like that. And o' Keefe told me that there was more to come from abc. I believe the ABC tape speaks for itself. However, I can tell you that we recently obtained the tape from our newest network Insider. He said in an email, this person is still on the inside of ABC News. So we're just getting started. I mentioned this earlier in some of our episodes about how ABC News quashed this story. So I figured we'd go back and revisit it and get a full contextual episode about what went down so you could see for yourself how ABC News sat on this story in 2015. And then the crazy part is we know Epstein was still abusing people throughout that whole time period. So could the story at ABC News have led to this being broken earlier? We know that Julie K. Brown's reporting prompted the police into action. The question is, would have ABC's story that they quashed have done the same? If you'd like to contact me, you can do that@bobby capuchirotonmail.com that's B O B B Y C A P U C c I@protonmail.com youm can also find me on Twitter at bo-c a p u C C I. The link that I discussed can be found in the description box.