From New York, this is Democracy Now.

To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand.

And if you are willing, please raise your hands if you have still not been able to meet

with this Department of Justice.

Please know for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

At a highly contentious congressional hearing, Attorney General Pam Bondi refuses to apologize

for the Justice Department treatment of Epstein survivors.

We'll speak to two House members who sparred with Bondi, Pramilla Gialpull of Washington

and Becky Ballant of Vermont.

Ballant walked out of the hearing after Bondi accused her of being anti-Semitic.

Ballant's grandfather was killed in the holocaust.

But first, we look at President Trump's meeting,

with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and speak to the acclaimed Iranian director

Jafar Panahi. Iranian authorities have arrested Medell Mahmoudien, who was just nominated

for an Oscar for co-writing the screenplay of Panache's film.

It was just an accident.

Following the massacre, 17 of us published a statement, and in that statement we held Ayatollah Khomeini responsible for what had happened.

Mejty Mahmoudian was also one of the co-signers of that statement and it was because of that

that they arrested him. All that and more. Coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman.

On Capitol Hill, Democratic lawmakers grilled Attorney General Pam Bondi on the Justice Department handling of the Epstein files.

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