Happening now, breaking news. The Justice Department is in talks with Elaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's long-time girlfriend and accomplice, and it's coming as calls for transparency over the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files row louder in the halls of Congress.

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Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

I'm Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown, and you're in the Situation Room.

Thank you. with Pamela Brown and you're in the situation room. This is CNN breaking news.

We begin with breaking news.

The U.S. Justice Department saying it has reached out to Galane Maxwell's legal team

and requested a meeting with her.

Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence

after being found guilty of conspiring

with Jeffrey Epstein to groom and sexually abuse underage girls.

CNN's senior justice correspondent, Evan Perez, is joining us right now.

What are you learning about this?

What are you hearing of him? Well, Wolf, the Justice Department says that they are now going to

meet with Gailene Maxwell to try to see whether that she knows any more information that could

lead to possible prosecutions. This really just extends you know, extends this story and this, what

really has been a debacle for the Justice Department, for the administration, in the handling

of the Jeffrey Epstein case. I'll read you just what Todd Blanche, the Deputy Attorney General,

his statement that was posted on X this morning, and it says, you know, he wants to, you know,

I have community, he wants to meet with Gillane Maxwell's lawyers and he says, I have communicated

with counsel for Ms. Maxwell to determine whether she would be willing to speak with prosecutors

from the department. I anticipate meeting with Ms. Maxwell in the coming days until now. No

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