The Epstein saga is starting to look less like a scandal and more like a classic KGB asset play. Coincidence? Please. When there’s this much smoke, you usually find the Kremlin holding the matches. This goes way deeper than we thought. Andrew Marr: "Let me begin tonight with something that I think is even more important, even more extraordinary: growing suspicions of a Russian connection. Epstein had apparently limitless supplies of money. Where did it come from? He procured many young Russian girls. Why was that so easy for him? The files released show more than a thousand documents which referred to Vladimir Putin, and 9,000 referring to Moscow. The FBI says that he was Putin’s wealth manager. Epstein filed all of his messages. He filmed and taped powerful Western leaders in deeply compromising situations. Why? Doesn’t it make you wonder, at least, about the possibility of a KGB operation big enough to ensnare former Presidents and Prime Ministers, and the leaders of some of the world's most powerful companies? I know, I know, this all sounds impossibly sensational, conspiratorial, a James Bond villain plot in real life. But there is so much smoke billowing out of one of the most extraordinary establishment crises in my lifetime, that it is well worth exploring whether there might be, also, a genuinely ominous backstory."