circling around epstein the last few years, but no one has really gotten in trouble, besides ghislaine maxwellason to believe any of the other power names are going to face any consequences for the most part right now? you and i are talking about this. they're in their c suite offices and on their yachts. >> what's kind of ironic about this, the only people that have paid any price, suffered as a result of this case are women, all the way down to the prosecutors who handled this, the state female prosecutor, her career was destroyed, the federal female prosecutor was basically forced out of there, had to take another job. there's just victims themselves. and it is concerning that the only people seem to have paid a price in this are women. >> and do you think that will be the case going forward, besides reputational risk, and ghislaine aside, any big guys that will pay a price? >> you know, that's hard to say. you know, i hate to say this, but you know, it is going to be very hard for them to i think try to connect all the dots with all of the important people. a lot of people are keeping thei

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. >>> as attorneys prepare for the trial of jeffrey epstein's close associate, ghislaine maxwell.ficking scheme. we'll talk to her on cbs news in just a moment. but here how the impact of brown's reporting is still being felt today. >> the paper's bomb shell report. >> it's disturbing. >> reporter: in 2018, julie k. brown, published "perversion of justice" detailed a plea deal that jeffrey epstein struggled with south florida nearly a decade earlier. acosta >>> good morning. it's 8:25. san francisco police want to crack down on criminals targeting tourists. 26 additional officers will patrol hot spots on bikes and on foot. funding will come from money set aside for overtime. >>> starting today everybody must wear a mask again inside courthouses in contra costa. court officials recommend them inside regardless of vaccination status. >>> in alpine nearly 800 firefighters are working by hand to try to contain the damage from a fire. it has burned about 61 care miles and is still 0% contained. >>> let's jump to the roadways. eastbound 580 right at flynn. a trouble spot looks like, a v

i want to talk about ghislaine maxwell, give us an update where the case against her stands, what's theat more, there's always an air of mystery around this entire proceedings, what more we could learn about the other people in epstein's world? >> it will be interesting to watch what she does because she's so far seems to have taken a page out of jeffrey epstein play book. one of the things that he had success with was pressuring prosecutors back when this whole thing started and he used his lawyers that he tired a number of very powerful, influential lawyers, he was strategic in who he hired. he hired kenneth star who was, you know, this is the time when george bush was in the white house. he hired people who were attached to certain prosecutors who had personal relationships with prosecutors involved in the case. so he was very strategic. and maxwell is also being strategic, hiring, you know, a former u.s. attorney. hiring people who are also filing motion after motion after motion, just, you know, papering this whole they think and giving them so much material that, you know, it dela

his then girlfriend and alleged accomplice, ghislaine maxwell remains in jail awaiting a possible trialabout epstein and those around him. a new podcast is shedding light with never released transcripts of conversations he had nearly 20 years ago. >> we only very resently discovered as it seems as though jeffrey was donating to bill clinton in the first year of his presidency in 1993. but in 2002 we didn't know any of this. so i just couldn't answer the question, why did people of importance think so highly of jeffrey epstein. and yet, you know, there were little clues. one person did tell me there was plenty of dirt to be had but basically these rich, powerful men, and they are for the most part men, would never talk. this person told me there was far too much self-interest at stake. >> joining us now author and journalist vicky ward. she's the host of that new podcast chasing ghislaine. the culmination of her 19 year investigative undertaking as she wrote her 2003 "vanity fair" profile. what happened with that profile, vicky? >> so, what happened with the profile was that jeffrey epst