congress has started 2024 right where 2023 left off, gridlock on immigration in the wake of an unprecedented surge in border crossings. a bipartisan group of senators is scrambling to reach border deal that would also free up key aid for israel and ukraine. house republicans the, though, could be standing in the way. dozens of those lawmakers led by the speaker of the house, mike johnson, they are visiting the border to see the crisis firsthand. will this visit and those talks in washington result in congress his first meaningful action on immigration in decades? let's check in with all of our reporters from washington to the border to see where everything stands. what is this large group of republicans led by speaker johnson, what are they going to see today? >> reporter: they have been out here at the border beginning to make their way over to the area

of where the press conference with the speaker and several members will take place, but they have been here getting a briefing from the state department on public safety. the state officers that have really been enforcing what governor greg abbott, the republican governor of texas, has been pushing here, in their fight with the by the administration over the last few years. you see a lot here, the razor wire that runs several miles up and down the rio grande, several miles of the steel containers that are used to block the edge of the rio grande. all of this is in place by state authorities, and we are getting an up close look at all of that. eagle pass has been one of the major focal points of the migration crisis on the southern border, where thousands of people have crossed, but incidentally, as these lawmakers are visiting eagle pass today, there has been a dramatic drop in the number of people crossing illegally here in eagle pass. just before the christmas

holiday, there were several thousand crossing per day just here in this location, but we are seeing far fewer numbers for a number of reasons. there is a natural ebb and flow of migration that happens, but we are also told anecdotally from officials on the mexican side of the border, that at various checkpoints in the interior part of mexico, several miles that way, more robust checkpoints where mexican immigration officials are cracking down on the movement of migrants making their way north as well. that could be the product and result of negotiations and talk set the biden administration, high-level members of the administration, had with the mexican president just after christmas. we are expecting to hear more from republican lawmakers, who are, clearly, making this visit to the border as negotiations continue in washington, and the effort here is to ratchet up pressure on the biden administration to get more of what they want in these negotiations as they press ahead.

>> let's pivot to capitol hill, where these discussions are ongoing. lauren fox is there for us. are we hearing about any movement on the border talks in the senate? >> reporter: the group of bipartisan negotiators in the united states senate, they are meeting as we speak, but they have been short of progress, so far. they have not reached a deal. they are not approaching a deal. a deal is not imminent, but they continue to say that they are making progress in these talks are productive. obviously, they are facing increasing pressure to get an agreement sooner than later, in part, because things are starting to get harder and harder to imagine that a deal could actually pass out of the house of representatives. the dynamics right now, even if senate negotiators could come to an agreement, even if that bill could pass on the floor of the senate, it remains to be seen if new speaker, mike johnson, would actually put it on the house floor, given the

fact he has so many conservative members, who are calling for nothing short of the house passed immigration bill. right now it remains to be seen what would even happen in the house, and the other piece of this dynamic happened when we learned this morning that house republicans are planning to move forward next week with the beginning of impeachment hearings against secretary alejandro mayorkas. it's difficult to imagine how you could get an agreement that could be reached in the senate. how that agreement could be put on the floor of the house and passed, given the fact that mayorkas is coming under more conservative scrutiny. >> down pennsylvania avenue, we have mj lee at the white house. the white house has been lashing out at house republicans over their stance on immigration. the biden administration, now also engaged in a legal battle with the state of texas. >> reporter: yeah, let's talk about that legal battle.

this is, essentially, the biden administration asking the supreme court, now, to allow for border patrol agents to be able to cut razor wire across the u.s. southern border. some of the kind that we saw just a few minutes ago in ed's live shot. what the administration is saying is that this razor wire that was put in place by the state of texas needs to be removed, in some cases, for example, because these patrol agents may need to provide medical assistance to some of the migrants coming across, or in some cases, apprehend some of the people crossing over the southern border. this is one of many issues, one of many examples we have seen where the issue has become contentious between the federal government and the state of texas, and essentially, pitting president biden with texas governor greg abbott, and we are seeing, of course, here in washington, d.c., as lauren just laid out,

how this border issue has become so politically contentious on capitol hill. this issue getting caught up in the issue of funding for israel and ukraine. i was just coming out of the first white house press briefing of the year, and again, they were talking about the urgency behind this issue, but there's really not a lot of signs right now of how this actually gets resolved, and as she was saying, lawmakers left town before the holidays before a deal was struck, and now we are in the new year, but it also means we are squarely in the middle of an election year, and that means that on both sides of the aisle, this is going to be in increasingly politically sensitive issue. both for democrats and republicans to navigate. guys. >> mj lee at the white house. thank you for that report. part of this immigration crisis is the follow-up on the border. governors like greg abbott have transported tens of thousands of migrants to so-called blue

cities, like new york city, and now, some of those cities are being overwhelmed by that influx of new migrant arrivals. we are joined now by manhattan borough president, mark levine. mark, thank you for being with us. you told the new york times back in august that new york, "is at the desperation stage." that was august. that was six months ago. how would you describe it now? >> actually, i'm really proud of new yorkers for welcoming these arrivals with open arms. they have been through very difficult journeys fleeing difficult conditions in their home countries, but we have done this with almost no support from the federal government. yes, it's getting harder and harder. the number of arrivals has increased in recent weeks. we are seeing about 500 per day. it just remains crazy that we have outsourced the national refugee resettlement plan to a xena phobic governor from texas, who is deciding where to send these buses based on his own political agenda. we really need a national plan.

we need more support here and in the other cities. >> when the buses show up, it appears that the biggest problem your city is facing right now is shelter for those migrants. new york has what's called a right to shelter policy that the city has to provide for anyone who applies for it, so what policy changes are you looking for from the biden administration, from the federal government, to help relieve the pressure on your city? >> the fact that new york has a right to shelter law is one of the reasons why our homeless crisis is very different than some of the other cities around the country, where you see thousands of people out in the street. but, we are facing real pressure right now, with over 160,000 arrivals over the past year and a half. very little financial assistance from the fight -- federal government. no national plan to settle refugees based on where there is local capacity. there should be a survey of every town and county and state around the country, to look at

capacity. finally, we need more work permits for the migrants. i have talked to so many of them, and the first question i'm asked, invariably is, how can i work? these families want to work. they want to pay taxes. they want to pay their own way, but they need to be given work permits. there are many ways we need more support from the federal government. if we get that, i'm confident we can manage this. >> that is important to remember. so many of the people, what is driving them is a desire to work in the united states, and the belief there are those opportunities. on the right to shelter policy, the new york city mayor, eric adams, he has decided to limit that policy to 60 days on those accommodations. the first families who were affected by that 60 day limit were supposed to be evicted just last week, right after christmas, but they did receive an extension through this month , we understand. how worried are you that some of these families, many of these families will end up on the streets of manhattan in the

middle of winter? these cold temperatures. >> we have different policies for single adults and for families. the 60 per day rule for families is problematic, in that it could disrupt the school year for these kids. i don't think any kid enrolled in the new york city public schools should be sent to another part of the city mid school year. for the single adults, it is a 30 day rule. i think that we do need more flexibility in the case of singles, of how tight accommodation is. we are faced with tougher and tougher choices, as a number of people arriving continues to increase, and we have no financial support and other supports from the federal government. it's getting harder and harder here. we need help. >> what are the chances that many of these thousands of migrants will end up, literally, on the streets? >> i hope it does not come to that, but i'm getting more worried, that as the winter months approach, our accommodations are overflowing. it doesn't help that we get no coordination from texas, who

sends buses, sometimes arriving in the middle of the night with no advanced warning. last night, there were families with young kids, who arrived at the main entry point in midtown manhattan at 3:00 a.m. it was very, very cold out. if governor abbott cared at all about the humanity of these migrants, he would at least coordinate with new york. they don't. it makes it much harder. if we had cooperation nationally, i think we could manage this. no one would wind up on the streets. everyone would have humane treatment, but we need help to pull that off. >> manhattan borough president, mark levine, we know you are very busy man. thank you for your time today. iran's leaders are promising a harsh response after two explosions near the burial site of a former military commander. those explosions killing at least 100 people. and, cnn has new reporting on that fiery plane collision in tokyo. what air traffic control transcripts say about the moment right before the crash.

just that short time ago, the state department stressed that the united states has not been involved in today's double bombing in iran, which killed more than 100 people. iranian state media is calling the explosions a terror attack,

and in iranian broadcast captured the audio of one of those devices going off. take a listen. [ screaming ] >> terrifying scenes there. the bomb exploded about 20 minutes apart, near the burial site of the former iranian commander, killed in a drone strike in iraq four years ago today. >> the bombing also wounded more than 180. it also comes as tensions are escalating over the israel hamas war. the state department said this about any israeli involvement in the attack on iran. take a listen. >> we have no reason to believe that israel was involved in this explosion. >> why not? >> we just do not have any information to believe that is the case. >> we are going to be learning

more from cnn international diplomatic editor, nick robinson, and jim shooter. what more details do you know about what happened today? >> reporter: a few details. the first bomb is believed to have been in a suitcase and was remotely detonated, so not a suicide bomber, because there was speculation about that earlier, and that spoke to sunni extremists targeting she is, that this was remote control. a little more sophisticated perhaps, and that bomb went off about 700 meters away from the site, the grave site where people were gathering, and the other one came about 20 minutes later. it was about one kilometer, .06 miles away. we don't have details from the iranian media on that. the iranian media now reporting that casualty toll climbing now to 211 people. >> jim, why is it so important

that the u.s. get out in front of this, and make the claim that this was not israel involvement? >> the u.s. does not want a direct war between israel and iran, and there should be no mistaking that that is what israel or the u.s. wants. this iranian government has a lot of enemies, other than the u.s. and israel. they have groups, such as isis, who have carried out attacks before, targeting civilians. they have domestic separatist groups that oppose this regime, who have carried out terror attacks inside the country before. on a trip to iran, i was taken by iranian authorities to the alleged sight of those attacks. there are other potential groups behind this kind of thing. we should also note that this kind of attack does not fit with the mold of israel.

israel has struck inside of iranian territory before, typically, going after military sites, nuclear sites, et cetera, not civilians. this has the characteristics, and this is not a clear-cut answer to the question of who is responsible for this, but it does have the characteristics of a terror attack in particular, because it was a double tap strike. one small explosion, a lot of people respond, and you have a secondary explosion with the express intention of getting some of those first responders. as i understand it, the bulk of the casualties were from the second explosion. at least, the evidence we have so far would point away from the u.s. or israel. >> surgical, also, we believe, in beirut yesterday, taking out a hamas commander. israel not claiming responsibility, even though the u.s. is telling us that israel was behind that. why do you think israel is being so coy when they have made it clear that they are going to go after hamas leaders

around the world? >> it is in their interest to maintain some plausible deniability here, and to your point, even when i was there, we heard discussion of israeli officials saying, without embarrassment, that hamas leaders will not be safe anywhere in the world, whether that be in turkey or lebanon, where some of them have taken refuge before, and also qatar. there has been some reporting that hamas report -- leaders no longer feel safe there and are leaving there for that reason. i think that is a piece of it. all the parties here, there is deep concern about expanding this war, and it's not clear that any of these parties, necessarily, want that today. does israel want it at some point? perhaps. there are members of the government that talk about going into southern lebanon at some point. that does not appear to be the position of the war cabinet at this point. are there members of hezbollah that would like to go to war with israel? possibly. are there members of the iranian government? but, at this point, based on

the level of military action, for instance, at the border between israel and lebanon, it seems like both sides are trying to keep it below the threshold of a broader conflict. the problem is, those thresholds are movable, and my perception of a threshold might be different from yours, and my perception of what is breaking the threshold might be different from yours. to those points, we have hezbollah saying that they will strike back and strike back hard. >> was so much activity in the region, to that point, one miscalculation could seriously create even more problems. >> i had a u.s. military official mentioned today that they are noticing there is that iranian warship now in the red sea, operating close to u.s. warships, and anytime you have closes in close proximity, the danger of miscalculation arises. >> back to tel aviv, it's obvious there is an increased threat of isolation, given the activity in lebanon, iran,

gaza, and in the red sea as well. what of you been hearing from officials in israel on the threat of a broader conflict? >> they are very aware of it. we have heard from the defense minister saying that they face a threat, a multi-front threat from seven different countries. the perception of being on a threat from many fronts is very real. i think, hezbollah leaders spoke today. again, with the characteristic cautiousness, walking that tight rope up saying, we have action, but we are not getting heavily involved, but threatening war. i think that line was important, because i think that speaks to, perhaps, some of the hezbollah base that would say, hold on, you threatened even if a hamas leader got taken out of beirut, there would be a reaction. he is speaking to, perhaps, some upward pressure from some of his more hard-line base who would say, where is our action?

i think, in terms of those misunderstandings, and the things that will concern israel , as they view what comes out of iran, what imaginations happen within the leadership there, which has a habit of acting by itself. one of the leaders they killed christmas day, israel killed christmas day, or believed to, they haven't taken responsibility, but they do believe israel was responsible for that. these hard-line elements will look to leadership for a response for the explosions today, for the killing of one of their senior leaders in syria in the past week or so. all of this creates that upward pressure, which then allows or generates an atmosphere where it is much easier to have these misinterpretations of the situation, of people's intent and missteps. >> nick robinson, jim sciutto,

we appreciate your perspectives. donald trump has another written request to be shielded from prosecution for election interference. the appeals court decision could have major implications on the 2024 presidential race. we will have much more detail when we come back. to duckduckgo on all your devie

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a federal appeals court here in washington will soon decide if donald trump should have immunity for alleged crimes committed during his presidency. trumps attorneys and special counsel jack smith are scheduled to present oral arguments in that case next tuesday. >> until that appeals court weighs in, and potentially, the supreme court, the federal election subversion case is on hold. let's get the latest from paula reid. paula, what are you watching right now? >> i am watching for former president trump to file his appeal to the supreme court. it has been two weeks since the colorado supreme court removed him from the ballot.

we have seen him file a challenge in maine to the state court, but really, we need the supreme court to weigh in here and offer clarity to the states and candidates about this question of ballot eligibility under the 14th amendment of the constitution. the republican party in colorado has already filed its appeal, so the impact of that is twofold. one, it put that decision on hold. he is expected, unless the supreme court acts, to appear on the primary ballot, but it also means the supreme court could take up that appeal if trump doesn't ultimately end up filing his own, but i'm told by multiple sources he does expect to file an appeal. look, time is of the essence. they really need to clarify this question ahead of the general election. >> as this plays out, what is next, in terms of the immunity bid by the former president in that election subversion case? >> next tuesday is a big day. oral arguments before the court of appeals, and we saw last night, once again, the trump

team filing a brief, reiterating a lot of the arguments that he should not be criminally charged for any actions that he took while in office. they pointed to the 234 years of unbroken tradition of not prosecuting presidents for official acts, but a lower court found that what he did related to january 6th was not part of his official duties, it's not protected. the special counsel has said, if we allow presidents absolutely immunity for anything they do in office, they will start committing crimes to stay in office. we can't have that. even sources close to the trump legal team say that they don't expect he will win immunity, but the long-term goal is to delay this case. that is the strategy. that same source puts it at about 50-50, whether this case goes this year. remember, the whole thing is on pause until the immunity question is resolved, something that could ultimately go to the supreme court or not, but with all of these issues, fascinating constitutional questions. time is really the big issue here.

>> the word we use over and over again, unprecedented. >> we have been using it for seven years. i'm ready for some precedented. as donald trump seeks presidential immunity in his elections of version case, we want to have a conversation with someone hired by his campaign after the 2020 election. voting data analyst can block joins us now. he owns simpatico software systems, and he wrote the new book, disproven. he also wrote a piece for usa today title, trump five -- paid me to find voter fraud, and then lied when the election wasn't stolen. ken, thank you for being with us. i want to start with why you think the trump campaign hired you, and whether you ever got the sense that they wanted you to bring them findings that might be on the truth. >> at afternoon. thanks for having me on. i don't believe -- actually, i know for a fact there were no

expectations placed upon me, in terms of, you must deliver us fraud, no matter what. as we negotiated my contract to do this work, i was very clear with them that the data would take me wherever it led, and that would have to be acceptable to the campaign, and the campaign was very gracious about that and said, we totally understand that. this is surprising to a lot of people, but the trump campaign attorneys that i reported to wanted an honest assessment of voter fraud, so that they didn't file erroneous lawsuits. there were a couple of different camps of lawyers involved in litigating the election. i worked for the more careful group. >> i see. you do right that your team communicated directly with the white house chief of staff at the time, mark meadows, that she found no evidence of widespread voter fraud. i'm curious if you got a sense of his reaction, and whether you know how and when that

message was communicated to president trump. >> i do have answers to those questions. the lawyer that i reported to in the january 6th committee hearings was broadcast on tv during those hearings, describing his interactions with mark meadows, when he brought mr. meadows the results, the totality of our results, which then, no substantive voter fraud was found sufficient to overturn an election in any of the swing states. mark meadows response in the sworn deposition. meadows said, that means there is no there there, referring to the claims of voter fraud. then we saw some reporting from the washington post within the last two months, that mr. meadows communicated to jack smith's investigators, that he had taken the news of no valid claims of voter fraud into the oval office.

>> 10, what was your reaction, knowing that you found no voter fraud, then seeing president trump and his allies echoing what ultimately was a lie? >> it's hard to watch and hard to listen to. i try and put the politics outside of it. what worries me greatly is, i have a lot of friends and acquaintances, who only hear the claims of fraud, and they believe firmly that voter fraud must be everywhere, because that is the only news they received. it's the only messaging they are hearing from their politicians. and, what's frustrating for me is the fact that, i was the guy. i looked for it. it wasn't there, and that information has not been covered by one conservative media outlet anywhere in the country. it's really problematic for everybody that we are not

getting balanced information about what actually happened in the 2020 election. that is how i find myself in front of you today. >> i don't want to get into the weeds with the methodology, but on the surface, you write that voter fraud is, "detectable, quantifiable and verifiable." you added that none of the allegations you saw about 2020 provides those three things. help us understand what that means. is it possible your analysis somehow missed something? >> well, of course, it's possible that an analysis missed something. you have to understand that starting the day after the election, there is roughly a 30 day period, in which you can contest an election result, before most state certified the results, and once the results are certified, there really isn't much you can do from a legal perspective. inside that 30 days, we covered a lot of ground in a hurry. we did as much as was humanly

possible, with the size of the staff in the budget we had. i would never claim that it was completely exhaustive. on the other hand, what i would tell you is, if there was fraud, and if it was provable and verifiable and everything else, somebody would have brought it forward by now. the fact that hasn't happened makes me very confident that we didn't miss anything in the work that was done in november. >> i'm sure you heard from friends that talked about the 60+ cases, that trump and his team brought, arguing there was election fraud, arguing that those dismissals were politically motivated, that, perhaps, the supreme court was too scared to take on the issue of widespread election fraud, but what do you say to those folks close to you, who still believe that trump won in 2020? >> some of my work product for

the campaign stopped some lawsuits that were going to be based on some astonishingly bad data analytics. and, a lot of the other cases that were thrown out were thrown out because claims of harm could not be brought, could not be quantified. a whole bunch of complex legal requirements, to make a successful argument that an election should be overturned. not one of the cases i'm familiar with came anywhere close to meeting the legal burden of proof necessary for a valid claim that could come out there, and cause the upheaval that was being looked for in these court cases. you have to bear in mind that my job, first and foremost, was to deliver the findings to help inform some of these lawsuits, and i was utterly unable to come anywhere close to delivering enough fraud to matter. >> can block, we very much appreciate your time and look forward to the book. thanks for coming on. >> thank you.

want to give you an update on the story we first brought you earlier this hour. that is house speaker mike johnson, with some 60 odd house members at the southern border right now. they are speaking to the press about the immigration crisis. we will monitor his remarks and bring you what he says in just a few moments, when we come back on cnn news central.

now to new details in the horrifying plane collision in tokyo, involving a passenger jet and a coast guard plane. cnn has learned that the warning lights designed to stop pilots from taxiing onto the runway were not working at the time of the crash. this, as new air traffic control data reveals what may have been a catastrophic error by the coast guard crew. pete muntean is joining us to break down the latest. we are starting to get a clearer picture of all of the things that went wrong. >> we are able to build more of

a narrative now, about the links in the accident chain that led to this disaster that killed five people on the coast guard plane, and we now have two really big clues. the first, that the air traffic control transcript shows that the coast guard plane was told to hold short of the runway, but not go onto it, and the second, as you mentioned, the warning lights that would've kept the plane from taxiing onto the runway were out of service. this is the handout that japanese aviation officials gave to reporters today, that essentially lays out the tiktok of the transitions from the air traffic control tower at haneda to the coast guard airplane, and also to the japan airlines airliner that was inbound to the same runway, and it essentially shows that the japan airlines flight was cleared to land, and the coast guard plane was told to hold short of the runway, but not taxi onto the runway. this is the key part of the transcript that shows that. the tail number of the coast guard plane, ja722a. the tower says, good evening,

taxi to holding point c5, and the plane responds by taxiing to holding point c5, thank you. that clearly shows there was some sort of breakdown in communication. the big question investigators will ask is, why did the airplane and upon the runway? one big thing that we have learned from publicly available notices to pilots shows that these runway warning lights, they are called runway stoplights, runway edge stoplights, were out of service during the time of the incident, and at the taxiway intersection in question. it keeps pilots from moving to the taxiway onto the runway, red lights embedded in the pavement. we have learned that they were out of service for six days leading up to the accident, and on the incident day. boris, we were able to paint this much clearer picture about these breakdowns in communication that took lace, not only the visual alerts, but also the audible alerts that air traffic controllers were able to give the pilots in the instructions.

there was, clearly, a massive failure here. >> it is sad to see failures resulting in all of those deaths, but it's really miraculous, the ability of the flight attendants to get almost 400 people off the plane. >> 379 people, and the big thing the passengers can take away from this is, pay attention to the safety briefing as flight attendants are giving it to you. read the safety information card, especially, when you are flying an airplane that is not totally familiar to you. if you are flying on a a350 for the first time. also, be there and be ready for their instructions. it is so important because flight attendants are there first and foremost for your safety, secondly for your convenience. seconds count when getting evacuated from an airplane like this, especially, one that is burning like this, and that can save lives. now to a couple other headlines we are following this hour. across america today, multiple state capitals were evacuated after receiving but the fbi calls a hoax email about a bomb

threat. georgia, kentucky, michigan and mississippi are all among states confirming they received threats just days before the third anniversary of the january 6th insurrection at the u.s. capitol. cities from washington, d.c. to new york could be blasted with the first real snow in two years, as the first major winter storm shapes up for 2024. a storm gathering strength in the gulf is expected to combine with the western storm, bringing ice and snow on the roads, and heavy rains forecast for the southern part of the country. also, general motors saying it had its best year for car sales since 2019, selling 2.6 million cars and trucks in the latest year, up 14% from last year. car buyers are seeing more options, and in some cases, better prices at the dealership lots, with many pandemic supply- chain snarls having been worked out. scientists come up with a potentially life-saving antibiotic to fight a dangerous

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as we weather another cold and flu season, complicated by covid, artist the, and other viruses. bacteria are constantly evolving to defeat antibiotics. we have promising early stories about an antibiotic that could work in a new way that could kill a bug that has been notoriously difficult to treat. >> antibiotic resistance is a huge problem. researchers actually refer to it as a silent pandemic. there are almost 3 million infections in the u.s. each year with microbes or other bugs that are resistant to the drugs to treat them. worldwide, the numbers are even bigger. an estimated 5 million that's our -- deaths are associated

with antibiotic resistance. there are new ways needed. this new one, there is an acronym for that. this causes an estimated 700 deaths every year in the u.s. this is on the top of the list of priorities to try to find better drugs to treat it. it is resistant to an important class of medicines. this leaves researchers coming up with a potential new class that essentially comes up the mechanism so that it causes cell death and that it can overcome problems, this is

early research and it needs to be born out through many years of clinical travels but it is so far, promising news. and we really need it. boris? >> thank you so much for the update. two breaking stories on cnn. an imam shot, we have an updated newly-released documents related to jeffrey epstein, they are expected to be released today. we are standing by to find out what names are attached to the former sexual offender. stay with cnn. we will be back in moments.

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we have a sad update to bring you on a story we have been following. a law enforcement source tells us that hassan sharif, the imam shot outside of a mosque in newark, new jersey, has passed away. the new jersey attorney general's office says they have no information suggesting that the shooting outside a mosque in newark was motivated by bias. the incident took place during predawn prayers. we are expecting to receive an update at around 4:30 p.m. at any moment, hundreds of newly -unsealed documents related to jeffrey epstein are expected to be made public. parties were begin filing unredacted records with the edification of about 150 people at some point today. of course, this is all from long-running litigation that began in 2015, brought by a woman who accused jeffrey epstein and his partner of sexually abusing her. epstein, of course