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PBS News Hour - Segments

DOJ begins releasing Epstein files, with many heavily redacted

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Late Friday afternoon, the Justice Department began releasing thousands of pages of files and communications related to Jeffrey Epstein. The new documents include photos, call logs, court filings and more. White House correspondent Liz Landers reports on the release and discusses more with Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Welcome to the News Hour. Late this afternoon, the Justice Department began releasing thousands of pages of files and communications related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The new documents include photos, call logs, court filings, and more. Many of them heavily redacted. Our White House correspondent, Liz now. So Liz, you and our team have been reading

0:21.2

through these documents. What stands out so far? Well, there are thousands of documents that have

0:25.5

been released today. That is far fewer than the Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General

0:30.6

Todd Blanche had said, and he has said that this will take a few weeks. What we have noticed in

0:36.5

today's release so far is that this is divided into

0:39.3

several different categories, and much of the new information is coming out in what is the

0:44.3

Department of Justice Disclosure category. We've seen a redacted masseuse list with more than

0:49.9

250 names all redacted. We've also found at least one of the grand jury documents in there from the United States

0:57.4

versus Epstein.

0:58.3

That is key.

0:59.2

We have not gone through that document yet, but that is certainly something we will be

1:02.1

looking through.

1:03.4

There are tons and tons of photos in this.

1:06.1

That's really what is the bulk of what's in today's release.

1:10.2

Many more pictures showing Jeffrey

1:11.7

I've seen in his lifestyle, including his former girlfriend, Galane Maxwell. Also, former

1:16.2

President Bill Clinton is in a number of these photographs. He's traveling with Galane Maxwell

1:20.3

in one of these pictures. They appear to be in a foreign country. There's another photograph of

1:24.0

them in a swimming pool. And then there are another several photos of the former

1:28.3

president with women whose faces are redacted. Now, former President Clinton is not accused of any

1:33.6

wrongdoing in relation to this Jeffrey Epstein relationship that he had. And these are undated

1:39.0

photos so we don't know when these pictures were taken of the former president. A lot of what

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