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AG Bondi: ‘All’ Epstein files have been released

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

Issues, Washington, Politics, President, Campaign, Scarboro, Brezinski, News, Giest, Ms Now, Congress, Government, Election

3.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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AG Bondi: ‘All’ Epstein files have been released

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0:00.0

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I don't.

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I've heard it said by someone that who gives a shit about who owns Greenland.

0:12.0

The 55,000 indigenous people of Greenland give a shit about who owns Greenland.

0:18.0

And at the end of the day, we need to show them respect.

0:24.8

Gene Shaheen with that head nod, that's the exchange between Republican senators,

0:28.8

Lindsey Graham and Tom Tillis, coming on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.

0:32.5

We're going to go through the big takeaways, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio,

0:38.0

taking a less aggressive tone with European allies than President Trump did in Switzerland just last month.

0:42.0

It comes as envoy Steve Whitkoff and President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner,

0:46.5

are set to meet tomorrow with Iran's foreign minister. We'll preview that high-stakes sit-down.

0:51.1

We also have a lot to cover on the issue of immigration, from borders our Tom Homan's new comments on ICE operations in Minnesota to new reporting on the harsh conditions

0:55.1

families and children are facing inside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas.

1:00.8

Plus, we'll dig into a concerning story tied to President Trump's fixation on the 2020 election.

1:05.7

A lawyer involved with the Stop the Steel movement is now playing a key role in his current administration, Because why not? Welcome to Morning Joe. It's Monday, February 16th. I'm Ali Vitale in for Joe, Mika, and Willie on this president's day with us for the hour. His MS now senior Washington reporter and co-host of the weekend, Eugene Daniels. Eugene, we have a lot to get to this morning. We're going to dive right into it. We begin with the latest development surrounding the files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

1:32.3

In a letter to Congress on Saturday, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the Justice

1:36.0

Department has released all of those files, claiming it had fulfilled its obligations under the

1:41.1

Epstein Files Transparency Act. That's a little bit up for debate.

1:48.7

The letter also outlined its justification for the redactions made in the released files, explaining they were limited to victim privacy, including personally identifiable information and medical details.

1:54.3

Republican Congressman Thomas Massey of Kentucky, who led the charge to pass the Epstein

1:58.2

Files Transparency Act, along with Democratic Congressman

2:00.8

Rokana, was asked yesterday about this new reasoning from DOJ. Watch.

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