Welcome to the NewsHour. The fallout from the recent release of the Epstein Files is continuing.

His longtime associate and convicted child sex trafficker, Elaine Maxwell, declined today to answer questions from a congressional committee in a closed-door deposition.

Maxwell, who was subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee last year said she was invoking her Fifth Amendment

right to avoid self-incrimination. She appeared by video from a prison camp in Texas where she's

serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking and other crimes. Maxwell's deposition

comes the same day lawmakers were given access to view the unredacted files.

That includes two congressmen who led the congressional push to release the Epstein documents.

That's Congressman Thomas Massey and Rokane.

It has exposed people in the highest levels in technology and finance and real estate.

It has exposed the establishment in monarchies in other countries.

So our push is how do we expose this and have accountability,

not how do we score political points or have retribution?

Our justice correspondent, Ali Rogan, has been tracking all of this and joins us now.

So, Ali, let's start with today's developments.

What did we learn?

There were a number of actions today that really were efforts to pierce through this shroud

of secrecy that still remains around many of these documents.

We did just hear from Congressman Massey and Kana.

They said they've seen the names of six men

whose names were redacted in the public version that they were able to see today, who they said

would likely be incriminated by their inclusion in these files. They did not name the six men,

but Massey said one was a U.S. citizen. One is a foreign national. The other four, he said he could not determine what nationality they were based on their names. He did say, though, that one, presumably the one that we know is a foreign national, is pretty high up in a foreign government. This is all happening as we're learning that the FBI wrote a summary in 2025, saying that there were,

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