Hi there, everyone, for real this time.

It's 4 o'clock in New York on a day and our years in the making as we await the release

of the so-called Epstein files, at least a chunk of them, some absolutely pivotal context

to go over.

Three things to know up front ahead of a midnight deadline

imposed on the Trump administration. First, the sheer size and scope of what the general public

is about to have in its hands is colossal. A mountain of documents, hundreds of gigabytes of

information, encompassing trip logs, financial records, interview summaries, paper

and electronic documents, and on and on. It's going to take some time to work through all

of it once we get it. A team of our colleagues are standing by to do just that to go through

each and every word on each and every page. The second thing to know about this afternoon's

expected data dump is that,

yes, we'll focus, of course, on what is actually in the release and what we're learning,

but we'll also be on the lookout for what is not included. Remember, Trump's Justice Department

is not voluntarily putting this information out. It was legally compelled to do so by a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers in Congress.

The deadline this day, a tick before midnight. And yet this morning, the Trump administration made a

rather startling admission. Here's Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

I expect that we're going to release several hundred thousand documents today, and those

documents will come in in all different forms, photographs and other materials associated

with all of the investigations into Mr. Epstein.

And so I expect that we're going to release more documents over the next couple of weeks.

So today, several hundred thousand.

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