DOJ risks criminal prosecution for defying Epstein documents release law: Weissmann
The Briefing with Jen Psaki
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🗓️ 20 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | I want to start by telling you all that Donald Trump is about to give a speech in North Carolina. |
| 0:06.5 | He's still at it. God bless him. He's still trying to sell his failed economic policies to voters. |
| 0:11.9 | It went so well earlier this week. And I just mentioned that not because we're going to play it for you, |
| 0:17.3 | we are not going to play it for you, but just because it's a little bit hilarious, given what's been happening back here in Washington today. And I just mentioned |
| 0:25.4 | this a little bit with Chris, because today was, of course, the deadline for the Trump |
| 0:29.6 | administration to release the Epstein files. Today was the deadline. They've had it for a while. |
| 0:34.6 | And they came very short of meeting that bar. |
| 0:38.2 | I mean, today the Justice Department did release hundreds of thousands of pages, so lots of pages. |
| 0:43.6 | But, and this is a big but, only a teeny tiny portion of it was new. |
| 0:48.6 | And just to give you a sense earlier tonight, Congressman Robert Garcia, I just mentioned this. |
| 0:52.4 | The ranking member of the House Oversight Committee estimated that we may only be seeing about 10% of the documents DOJ has it in |
| 1:00.1 | its possession. Just 10%. I just wanted to repeat that again for all of you. That definitely does |
| 1:04.8 | not come remotely close to what they were required to do under the bill that passed Congress last |
| 1:10.5 | month. |
| 1:16.7 | With the support of every single senator and representative, every single one, save one guy, |
| 1:17.3 | Clay Higgins. |
| 1:18.6 | Still can't explain that one. |
| 1:23.6 | But the bill, again, remember, it was also signed into law by President Trump himself the next day. |
| 1:25.2 | Because that bill required that all the Epstein files with only narrowly defined exceptions, |
| 1:30.8 | like the identity of survivors or national security concerns, were required to be released |
| 1:36.4 | by midnight tonight. |
| 1:38.0 | And they would have to explain those too, by the way. |
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