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    "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/business/meta-moltbook-ai-bubble",
    "title": "Meta’s Moltbook gamble looks a lot like bubble behavior",
    "text": "A version of this story appeared in CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for freehere.\n\nMeta, the company that changed its entire brand identity five years ago on the promise of a technology it turned outno one wanted, just spent an undisclosed sum to acquire Moltbook, a “social network” built for “AI agents.”\n\nI’m quoting Moltbook there, but I’m also using quotes because it’s important to remember that artificial intelligence is just lines of code and therefore not capable ofsocializing. AI “agents” are just bots that can mimic human actions online, so perhaps the better descriptor of Moltbook is a “pseudo-performance of a social network”? If using Facebook is an online performance, Moltbook is an attempt at aggregating every social media user into a kind of meta-spectacle of socialization.\n\nWhatever you want to call it, Moltbook is essentially a Reddit-like forum where bots are meant to “talk” to one another. And Meta’s decision to buy it is significant — not so much because of what it Moltbookisbut because of what itrepresents: a speculative bet on a novel technology with no demonstrated utility for humans.\n\nThe project went viral last month for two major reasons:\n\nFor those inclined to see the AI race as a bubble, Meta’s decision to buy an unpolished Reddit imitator on the expectation — still speculative at this point — that “agents” are the future of digital ads and commerce is a clear sign of the kind of irrational exuberance that has defined all of history’s dumbest market meltdowns, from tulip mania to the dot-com crash.\n\nMeta last year shelled out $2 billion to acquire Manus, an AI developer, and $14.3 billion to acquire data-focused startup Scale AI, and it has reportedly dangled $100-million-plus compensation packages for top-tier researchers. And like its Big Tech rivals, Meta isborrowing tens of billionsa year to finance these deals — another possible sign of overconfidence.\n\nThe big wrinkle in the multitrillion-dollar AI buildout\n\nFor Meta, the bet on Moltbook lies partly in hiring its creators, Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr, who are joining the Meta Superintelligence Labs unit. Perhaps the pair can expand Moltbook into something that drives revenue, or perhaps they create another viral hit.\n\nCertainly, they’ve proven they can generate buzz, and in the world of AI, where valuations are lofty and almost fully detached from business fundamentals, that hype matters. (Meta reportedly tried to recruit Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, but rival OpenAI got to him first,per Business Insider.)\n\n“The Moltbook team joining MSL opens up new ways for AI agents to work for people and businesses,” a Meta spokesperson told CNN. “Their approach to connecting agents through an always-on directory is a novel step in a rapidly developing space, and we look forward to working together to bring innovative, secure agentic experiences to everyone.”\n\nBottom line:Meta is all in on AI, much the way it was all in, five years ago, on its conception of an online town squarecalled the Metaverse.Moltbook may not be a repeat of that flop — Meta yanked its Metaverse unit’s funding and slashed its staff earlier this year — but its aggressive AI spending should be a reminder of the company’s history of getting out over its skis in the name of a shiny new object.\n\nCNN’s Hadas Gold contributed reporting.",
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    "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/politics/trump-iran-war-russia-putin-analysis",
    "title": "How Trump’s Iran exposure could hand Putin a lottery win",
    "text": "If Vladimir Putin’s quarter-century of expansionist rule has taught the West anything, it’s that the Russian president shouldn’t be taken at his word.\n\nThat hasn’t stopped top US officials from perpetually buyingthe Russian strongman’slines. President Donald Trump’s biggest misconception is that Putin wants peace in Ukraine, despite overwhelmingevidence to the contrary.\n\nNow, Trump’s team risks falling victim to its own credulity again.\n\nJust asMoscow is helping to target dronesthreatening US troops in the Iran war, according to a CNN report, the administration mayease more of the sanctionsintended to weaken Putin’s Ukraine killing machine. The hope would be to lessen Trump’s political jam over oil prices.\n\nIt would be an extraordinary twist if Putin emerged as the first winner of the deepening Middle East crisis because Trump rocked global energy markets by launching his own war.\n\nPutin gloated over the oil shockat a Kremlin meeting two days ago, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning oil expert Daniel Yergin. “Vladimir Putin has won the lottery here. He’s the biggest winner so far because the price of oil is way up to fund his war. And the sanctions are being taken off,” Yergin, vice chair of S&P Global, told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Wednesday.\n\nIn the latest US-Russia melodrama of the Trump era, a top Russian official huddled with Trump’s team in Florida on Wednesday. Special envoy Kirill Dmitriev met special envoy Steve Witkoff; the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner; and White House senior adviser Josh Gruenbaum. “The teams discussed a variety of topics and agreed to stay in touch,” Witkoff said in a readout that touched on none of the suddenly burning US-Russia issues.\n\nBut before the meeting, Witkoff downplayed reports that the Russians were providing Iran with intelligence about the movements of US troops, ships and aircraft. He said on CNBC on Tuesday that Moscow had denied such behavior during Trump’s call with Putin the day before. “So, you know, we can take them at their word. But they did say that,” he said.\n\nOn CBS’ “60 Minutes” Sunday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth downplayed risks to US troops from Russian activity, insisting, “No one is putting us in danger.”\n\nBut the plot thickened  Wednesday when CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh exclusively reported that Russia was helping Iran with drone tactics learned in Ukraine to hit US and Gulf targets. This is the most overt and concerning such cooperation yet between the anti-US axis allies, a Western intelligence official said.\n\nAlso on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has sent his drone experts to help US forces counter Iranian Shahed drones, said that Russians were helping the Islamic Republic not just with unmanned aerial vehicles, but also with missiles and air defenses.\n\nZelensky’s offer is the latest sign of how bitter drone duels between Ukraine and Russia have reshaped the character of warfare. This dynamic has now jumped to a new theater as budget-price weapons threaten the world’s most sophisticated military.\n\nDisclosures about Russia’s drone targeting also underscore the complex game Putin plays to exploit global crises even as he cultivates his relationship with Trump to advance his goals in Ukraine.\n\nTrump hopes the Iran war will soon end as a fearsome US and Israeli barrage against the Islamic Republic is complicated by a crisis of the locked-down Strait of Hormuz, a vital oil transportation corridor.\n\nA consequentspike in oil pricesis threatening Trump’s already-fragile position, and has prompted his administration to look for ways to respond.\n\nWashington had been successfully coercing India to lessen its dependence on Russian oil to help pressure Moscow into ending the war in Ukraine. But last week it granted a 30-day waiver to allow New Delhi’s refiners to buy oil from Russia’s ghost fleet.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessenttold Fox Business on Friday, “We may unsanction further Russian oil.”\n\nHis comment drew a call from Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee for an investigation and testimony from Bessent, first reported by Punchbowl News.\n\nAn unexpected oil bonanza is only one of the ways Putin can benefit from the war in Iran. The United States and its European allies may divert resources and arms away from supporting Kyiv’s war effort. And while Trump’s team met Putin’s envoy, European allies are still reeling from the president’s fury over their reluctance to join the assault on Iran. This is all grist for Putin’s long-term strategy of fracturing cohesion among NATO states.\n\nThese benefits may partly offset blows to Russian foreign policy if the Iranian regime is weakened or eventually topples. Russia lost another ally this year with the US special forces raid that toppled Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in January.\n\nPutin has strong rationales for helping Iran:\n\nRussian help is valuable for Tehran, meanwhile, far beyond the propaganda value of assistance that implies it’s not confronting the fury of the US and Israel alone.\n\nRussia’s murderous raids on Kyiv and other cities have enabled its specialists to refine formations and tactics, often using dozens of drones simultaneously. Such expertise could help Tehran confront US and Gulf air defenses. Moscow also has satellites used for precise targeting.\n\nStill, Putin has a fine line to walk. His core interest is winning the war in Ukraine, in part by prolonging peace talks to allow his ground forces to grind out new territorial gains. He can’t afford a direct clash over Iran with the United States, or a military confrontation.\n\nThe Kremlin has not commented on the latest reports that it is helping Tehran directly with its drone program, which are a further embarrassment for the Trump administration.\n\nThe president’s empathy with the Russian strongman has helped define both his administrations. Trump once said that he and Putin were victims of a “witch hunt” over intelligence community assessments that Moscow meddled in the 2016 election. Witkoff, the face of the administration’s so-far thwarted attempts to bring peace to Ukraine, has followed his boss’s lead. He often emerges from meetings with Putin sounding like the Russian leader. “I don’t regard Putin as a bad guy,” he said last year of a man who launched an invasion that has killed thousands of Ukrainians.\n\nThen there was a transcript ofa phone call reviewed and transcribed by Bloomberg last yearthat showed Witkoff coaching a top Russian official on how to talk to Trump.\n\nA 28-point peace plan Witkoff drew up last year could have been written by Moscow and took weeks of finessing by Secretary of State Marco Rubio before it could serve as the basis for talks.\n\nRepublicans are often forced to dance on the head of a political pin over Trump’s relationship with Putin.\n\nKansas Sen. Roger Marshall told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday that the global energy situation amid the Iran war was “very delicate.” He added: “I think the lifting (of) the oil sanctions on India, buying Russian oil, I think that’s doing something good for America right now.”\n\nBut he went on: “Of course, I have no use for Russia either … I think just as quickly as we took those sanctions away, we can put them back on.”\n\nThat may take a while, especially given expectations that turbulence in energy markets could endure for weeks even if the Strait of Hormuz reopens soon. Stunning imagery Wednesday of two tankers burning in the Gulf following suspected Iranian attacks raise the possibility meanwhile of a deepening crisis.\n\nUnless Trump manages to extricate the United States soon, he may share something else with Putin: having started a war that miscalculated an adversary’s capacity to fight back and that drags on longer than he expected.",
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    "text": "A statement released today attributed to Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, contains some familiar regime talking points while leaving some wondering where the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who led the oil-laden country for 36 years, actually is.\n\nPedram Hamidi, who grew up in Iran under the existing regime, is doubtful of the significance of thefirst purported message from Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei.\n\n“He’s irrelevant,” Hamidi told CNN Thursday. “We’re fighting the IRGC at this point.”\n\nHamidi also finds it difficult to believe the newly named ayatollah is even alive.\n\n“There’s not even a single video of it,” he said. Not even from a bunker, he added.\n\nHamidi, who now lives in Canada, previously spoke with CNN in January amidst a series of anti-government protests in Iran. His parents live in Iran with currently no internet access. They’re scared because “bombs are dropping – but at the same time they want something to be done,” he said.\n\nIn Iran, people knew Mojtaba Khamenei as someone who pushed for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to win the 2005 presidential election, Hamidi said.\n\n“After that people knew Mojtaba as the most politically involved child of Ali Khamenei. So, we knew he was kind of being groomed to become the next leader,” he said.\n\nOn Khamenei’s statement saying the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed, Hamidi believes the regime’s tactic is “trying to increase the economic and political price of this war on Trump so he basically quits, declares success and victory and just leaves.”\n\nSimilarly, New York resident Elie Bassalian doesn’t put a ton of weight to the words attributed to Khamenei.\n\n“Nothing’s really going to change unless they get new leadership,” he said. “I don’t really dwell on any words that they say.”\n\nBassalian simply points to the existing regime as continuing to promote their propaganda.\n\nHis parents and grandparents immigrated to New York from Iran before the 1979 revolution. Though he’s never been to Iran himself, he feels close ties to it.\n\n“We’re proudly Jewish, we’re also proudly American and we’re also proud of our Iranian background,” he said. “When we get together for our Sabbath, we’re Jewish and we’re doing all the Jewish rituals, but we’re eating Persian food.”\n\n“I’m hoping that America succeeds and Israel succeeds,” he said.",
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    "title": "‘Use it or lose it’: Pentagon spending binge set record in final days of fiscal year",
    "text": "Pentagon spending in September included nearly $9 million on Alaskan king crab and lobster tails, more than $200 million in furniture and $5.3 million in Apple devices – just some of the expenditures that added up to a record $93 billion price tag for the month, according to new analysis published by government watchdogOpen the Books.\n\nSeptember spending at government agencies typically dwarfs other months because it marks the end of the fiscal year. That’s when “use it or lose it” funding rules kick in for departments rushing to spend the remainder of their budget so as to not forfeit the unused money and have to send it back to the Treasury Department.\n\nBut according to Open the Books, no federal agency has ever spent so much on grants and contracts in a single month as the Pentagon’s $93.4 billion in September 2025. More than half of that was spent in the final five working days of the month, the watchdog said.\n\nThe expensive month comes as President Donald Trump has made cutting government spending a focal point of his second term, gutting the federal workforce last year with mass layoffs across federal agencies. At the same time, Trump has called for huge increases to the Pentagon’s budget,postingin January that the 2027 fiscal year budget should be $1.5 trillion – a roughly 50% increase.\n\n“This will allow us to build the ‘Dream Military’ that we have long been entitled to and, more importantly, that will keep us SAFE and SECURE, regardless of foe,” Trump said.\n\nThe September 2025 spending included a record $6.6 billion of purchases from foreign governments and foreign-owned businesses, smashing the previous high of $5.2 billion from September 2023.\n\nThe money spent on shellfish and steak – more than $15 million on ribeye, according to Open the Books – was likely for troops on extended deployment ahead of the current war in Iran, experts said.\n\n“These are not for parties for (Secretary Pete) Hegseth and his buddies,” said Jerry McGinn, the director of the Center for the Industrial Base at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank.\n\n“You’re doing something nice for the troops,” McGinn added.\n\nOften described as a “surf and turf” meal, it’s a tradition in military culture as a symbolic precursor to deployments, combat operations or extended missions. The food products bought in September also typically cover holiday meals, including Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s, for service members deployed those days.\n\nThe steak-and-lobster dinners are meant to be a thank you to troops. When asked if lobster being served during deployments had a place for morale-boosting purposes, one retired Army officer with multiple combat tours told CNN, “I mean, it’s always disgusting, but I guess.”\n\nIn addition to the $225.6 million in furniture expenditures – purchases that typically spike in September regardless of presidential administration, according to Open the Books – musical instruments cost $1.8 million. That included a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, a $26,000 violin, and a $21,750 custom handmade flute from the luxury Japanese brand Muramatsu.\n\nMcGinn said government agencies typically reserve bulk orders of furniture and technology for September to use up the rest of the budget, adding “this is not uncommon.”\n\nBecause the Department of Defense’s budget was under a continuing resolution – a funding stopgap from Congress that keeps the budget at the previous fiscal year’s level until the new one is approved – for much of 2025, that also likely restricted some Pentagon spending for the first six months, leaving more leftover in the second half of the year, McGinn said.\n\nCNN’s Haley Britzky contributed to this report.",
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    "title": "What’s in the ‘SAVE America Act’ and why is it so important to Donald Trump?",
    "text": "The federal elections overhaul bill that’s a top priority for President Donald Trump already faced near-impossible odds in the Senate, but the White House is making the “SAVE America Act” even more difficult to pass by insisting that Republicans load it up with additional controversial provisions.\n\nThe version that passed the House last month – focused on adding strict new ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements for voting – isnot expected to get the approvalof the Senate because Republicans lack the votes to eliminate the filibuster, which allows the Democratic minority to block the bill.\n\nButTrump has doubled down, commanding Republicans to add provisions that would end the widespread practice of no-excuse mail voting and target transgender policies that have been effective culture war fights for the GOP yet are unrelated to the running of elections.\n\nIf either the current iteration of the bill, or the pie-in-the-sky version Trump is now reaching for, were to become law, it would be a massive disruption for this year’s midterm elections. (Under an earlier draft of the “SAVE America Act” some of the provisions would have not taken effect until next year, but a last-minute change to the bill in the House makes those requirements take effect immediately upon enactment),\n\nElection experts say documented cases of voter fraud – especially voting by non-citizens – are exceedingly rare. The right-leaningHeritage Foundation’s databaseof confirmed fraud cases, for instance, shows fewer than 100 examples of noncitizens improperly casting ballots between 2000 and 2025.\n\nCurrently, states that on their own are trying to implement proof of citizenship mandates for voting can only do so for state and local elections, so proponents of the federal legislation say it is a much-needed fix so states can enforce those requirements up and down the ballot. Critics say the legislation puts unnecessary burdens on voters, requiring them to present documents that millions of Americans don’t have easy access to in order to exercise the franchise.\n\nIndividuals would have to present to election officials in person documents proving their citizenship, such as a birth certificate, US passport or a naturalization certificate, to register to vote. In cases such as marriage – where the name on a birth certificate doesn’t match the voter’s current name – voter registration applicants would be allowed to submit additional documents that explain the discrepancy.\n\nMore than 21 million otherwise eligible voters do not have easy access to those citizenship documents, according to a survey conducted by theBrennan Center, a left-leaning think tank that researches election issues, and other groups.\n\nSupporters of the bill have argued that a REAL ID, such as those required at airports, would suffice for meeting the citizenship document requirement. However, that is only true for the handful of states that issue REAL IDs that indicate a person’s citizenship.\n\nCurrently, voters simply sign an attestation, under penalty of perjury, that they are US citizens.\n\nThe bill would complicate a person’s ability to register online or by mail, because those using those registration methods would have to still go to their election office in person to show their proof of citizenship.\n\nJason Snead, a proponent of the bill who leads the Honest Elections Project, argued because an “overwhelming majority of people register to vote in person through the DMV already,” that extra step would not be a burden for most voters. Still, it would curtail the kinds of voter registration drives that are prominent in the lead-up to elections.\n\nThe bill would require voters to present “valid photo identification” to cast a ballot in federal elections. Acceptable forms of ID include state-issued driver’s licenses, US passports, and those issued to military and tribal members. The bill does not include identification cards issued by schools and colleges among its acceptable photo IDs, which critics say unfairly targets younger voters.\n\nPeople seeking to vote by mail would need to submit copies of their IDs both when they request an absentee ballot and when they submit it, though there are some exceptions for some voters.\n\nCurrently, there is no nationwide requirement for photo ID to vote, although many states mandate some form of voter ID to cast ballots.\n\nThe bill sets out additional steps states would need to take to remove ineligible individuals from the lists of people who can vote in congressional and presidential elections.\n\nThe measure urges states to verify voters’ eligibility by using a federal citizenship-verification tool revamped last year by the Trump administration, as well as other databases. However, some state audits already conducted through that system have incorrectly tagged legitimate votes as suspected noncitizens, and dozens of Democratic officials at the state level have resisted the administration’s efforts to obtain lists of voters in their states.\n\nThose voter roll verification mandates are why the bill’s proof of citizenship would have such a broad reach. Not only would new voters be required to show citizenship  documents when they register, currently registered voters whose citizenship status was put into doubt by the voter list reviews would have to provide the documents as well to stay on the rolls.\n\nConsequences for election officials and people unlawfully registered to vote\n\nThe legislation adds new penalties for election officials who run afoul of the law. 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This is not unique technology that has to be developed. 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    "text": "Sarah Ferguson, the ex-wife of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was desperate. Almost a decade and a half after her highly public divorce from the former prince in 1996, Ferguson – better known to many as “Fergie” – owed tens of thousands of pounds in rent, was feeling alone, and in search of a new career.\n\nOn all of these tribulations, Ferguson sought help and advice from her friend: Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nCNN’s examination of dozens of files in the Justice Department’s “Epstein library” found that Ferguson continually showered Epstein with praise, including after his 2008 conviction in Florida for soliciting prostitution from a minor.\n\nMessagesshowthat Ferguson affectionately referred to Epstein as her “spectacular and special friend,” “the brother I have always wished for,” and told him “I am so proud of you” while he was serving jail time. 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She wrote that she was landing in Palm Beach in a few hours and she wanted to know whether she could see Epstein during her layover for a cup of tea.\n\nEpstein, who was given work-release privileges that allowed him to leave jail for up to 12 hours a day, six days a week,responded: “yes.” (It is not clear whether the two ultimately saw each other that day.)\n\nTwo days later, Epstein wrotean emailto Ferguson that began with the words: “you look great.” In the message, Epstein laid out his vision for a company that Ferguson could run called “Mothers Army,” an initiative aimed at helping mothers in need that would be funded by corporate sponsors.\n\n“My dear spectacular and special friend Jeffrey,” shewrote back. “You are a legend, and I am so proud of you.” She continued on to write that she had “read and devoured” Epstein’s email, and that she planned to get back to him with a “business plan.”\n\n“Thanks for being such a great friend,” sheadded, before signing the email with “Lots of love” and “Xxxx.”\n\nWithin a week of Epstein’s release from jail in July of that year, Ferguson was eager to see him in person. Emails exchanged at the end of that month show that Ferguson made plans to see Epstein. “It will be myself, Beatrice and Eugenie,”she said. “Are we having lunch?” (Her daughters were 20 and 19 at the time; it is not clear whether that meeting ever materialized.)\n\nFerguson continuedcorrespondingwith Epstein about the idea of Mothers Army, including seeking his help on trademarking the term and asking for advice to ensure she doesn’t “F… Up the business and commercial arm.” (Mothers Army was officially incorporated in October 2011 and dissolved in December 2016, with Ferguson listed as a director,public recordsshow.)\n\nEmails indicate that Epstein appeared to use Ferguson’s name to offer friends access to royal institutions, including Buckingham Palace Apartments. Epsteinwroteto a couple in 2009: “fergie said she could organize tea in the buckingham palace apts.. or windsor castle.” (It is not clear whether that visit materialized.)\n\nIn the fall of 2009, markets were reeling from the financial crash and media was buzzing about one former member of the Royal family. “Duchess of Debt?” was the start of a headline of an ABC News story that alleged that Ferguson was in deep financial trouble.\n\nAn associate shared the story with Epstein, who had been released from prison a few months earlier.\n\nHe promptly fired off an email to Ferguson.\n\n“you have a rat…” Epsteinwrote. “it could be one of the disgruntled investors.. or others that are owed money.”\n\nFergusonwrote back: “I urgently need 20,000 pounds for rent today. The landlord has threatened to go to the newspapers if I don’t pay. Any brainwaves?” (It is not clear whether Epstein responded to that message or assisted Ferguson on the rent payment.)\n\nIn January 2010, FergusonaskedEpstein for financial help. “Is there any chance I could borrow 50 or 100,000 US dollars to help get through the small bills that are pushing me over,” she wanted to know.\n\nEpsteinrespondedthat he couldn’t: “i cannot do anything until July at earliest, dictated by current restrictions,” he said. (While Epstein did not elaborate, he was serving out a year of house arrest at the time.)\n\nBy May of 2010, Ferguson was under firefor a videoin which she appeared to accept money in exchange for access to her ex-husband. When the video emerged, Ferguson issued a statement apologizing for the incident and acknowledging, “My financial situation is under stress.”\n\nIn addition to asking to borrow money, Ferguson more than once suggested around this time that Epstein hire her to be his “House Assistant.” “I am the most capable and desperately need the money,” shewrotein one email. “Please Jeffrey think about it.”\n\nTwo months later, when Epstein wrote to Ferguson that he hadn’t heard from her, she responded on the same day: “Have you died on me ? Don’t.. Please you are my pillar.” Fergusonlamentedto Epstein the following day that she was “now 1000 percent being hung out to dry” by the British press.\n\nShe once again floated the idea of Epstein hiring her, writing in September: “When are you going to employ me.” Epstein responded that they could discuss the matter in person when he traveled to London in several weeks. “i have never let you down,” hewroteto her in a subsequent message. 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