00:00And Sarah, in response to those developments, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said that Andrew should testify before the US Congress.
00:09So how realistic is that and what would have to happen for it to become a genuine possibility?
00:14Well, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has, of course, always denied any wrongdoing in this case.
00:22And yet we are getting a lot of calls now, not least from the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, a former director of public prosecutions, a lawyer himself here in the United Kingdom, that Andrew should do the right thing and testify before Congress.
00:39He was asked to at the tail end of last year. He ignored that request from Congress.
00:45They can't force him to do so. He's not a US national. They can't force him to.
00:52But the political pressure is certainly growing on him from all sides here in the United Kingdom that he should do the right thing.
01:00I think no matter his protestations of his innocence and maintaining that he has done nothing wrong, what Andrew has failed to do throughout all of this is do the morally right thing to show his support for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein
01:19and to help them find justice by assisting the U.S. authorities with their inquiries.
01:25What did he see? What did he know when he was in Jeffrey Epstein's properties?
01:31But I think given his performance on the Newsnight interview under questioning from Emily Maitlis, he didn't fare well.
01:38And he will certainly fear any kind of questioning from U.S. Congress.
01:43And it doesn't look likely at this stage, no matter how much pressure he's under.
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