Epstein files: US Justice Department releases 3 million pages
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The United States Department of Justice has released 3 million pages of documents as part of its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. The latest release is the largest to date and includes emails, 2,000 videos, and over 180,000 images. What do we know so far?
Also in the programme: who is Kevin Warsh, the man appointed by Donald Trump as next chair of the Federal Reserve? And Nigerian musician Fela Kuti becomes the first African artist to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys.
(Photo: Jeffrey Epstein in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender registry in 2017, Credit: New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services sex offender registry)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:08.7 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.0 | Coming to you live from London, I'm James Kimmer Asami. |
| 0:15.4 | Another week, another tranche of documents relating to the late sex offender, Geoffrey Epstein, |
| 0:22.1 | and a big one. The US Justice Department released three million pages of material this afternoon. At a news conference, |
| 0:27.4 | the U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche insisted that the investigation was independent. |
| 0:33.0 | My team has certain communications with the White House. Let me just be clear. They had nothing to do |
| 0:39.0 | with this review. They had no oversight over this review. They did not tell this department how to do |
| 0:44.1 | our review, what to look for, what to redact, what to not redact. They absolutely knew that I was |
| 0:51.1 | doing this press conference today and that we were releasing the materials today. But, but there's not, there's no oversight by the White House into the process |
| 1:00.3 | that we've undertaken over the past 60 days. Well, earlier I asked the BBC's Chief North |
| 1:04.9 | America correspondent Gary O'Donoghue, what stands out in the files so far? Well, it's quite |
| 1:10.2 | difficult to be honest with you, and I will be honest with you about this, |
| 1:13.5 | because this is a sort of huge range of kinds of materials, photographs, videos, documents. |
| 1:19.5 | Some of them are sort of flight logs. |
| 1:21.2 | Some of them are kind of random sort of tips that prosecutors or police seem to have jotted down from people who've rung in |
| 1:28.1 | with a whole bunch of sort of allegations against various people, some of them quite |
| 1:32.7 | extraordinary, but we have no means of knowing whether there's any truth or whatsoever in |
| 1:38.9 | those. I mean, some of the things, you know, we're getting some more what you might call |
| 1:42.7 | colour. Jeffrey Epstein emails about him between him and Gilae Maxwell, |
| 1:48.0 | between Gilaim Maxwell, about the former Prince Andrew, Andrew Mountbatten, Windsor, |
| 1:53.6 | who we know has, you know, been, you know, had to step away from public life |
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