ABC News denies that it killed Jeffrey Epstein reporting

ABC News was in cleanup mode on Tuesday after a video surfaced of “20/20" co-anchor Amy Robach expressing frustration that the network did not run her 2015 reporting on pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.

The video — leaked on YouTube by conservative provocateur James O’Keefe — shows Robach at an anchor desk talking to a producer about a 2015 interview she conducted with Epstein victim Virginia Roberts that implicated Britain’s Prince Andrew, attorney Alan Dershowitz and former President Clinton. O’Keefe said that the tape was recorded in August and that it was provided by an ABC employee.

The most damning claim from Robach is that ABC News would not run the reporting because it feared losing access to coverage of the British royal family.