CNN Anchor Fact Checks Jamie Raskin Over Wild Defense of Dem Colleague’s Texts With Epstein

Isaac Schorr Nov 24th, 2025, 1:30 pm

CNN’s Pamela Brown fact-checked Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) while grilling him over his defense of Rep. Stacey Plaskett’s (D-VI) relationship with Jeffrey Epstein .

After playing a clip of Raskin defending Plaskett on the House floor by arguing that she was “merely taking a phone call from her constituent, Jeffrey Epstein,” Brown noted that he didn’t have his facts straight.

“To be clear, she [Plaskett] initiated the text chain [with Epstein] on that day,” observed Brown before asking: “Are Democrats losing the moral high ground on the Epstein issue by defending her as you have?”

“Well, look, we’ve been demanding a complete release of the file, a

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