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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Garcia: Epstein Doc Redactions “Absolutely Breaking The Law”

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

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3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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The United States Justice Department released at least some of the many files it has on dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. CNN teams are going through the release documents, bringing updates.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is CNN Breaking News.

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Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper.

0:36.8

We're going to start with breaking news on our law and justice lead because just moments ago the U.S. Justice Department released at least some of the many files it has on dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Our CNN teams are going through the release documents right now. We will bring you updates as we get them. This is a day that so many survivors

0:55.3

and members of the American public have waited on for years, for decades. Tonight at midnight

1:01.7

was the deadline for the Justice Department to release these files. But this morning it became

1:06.6

clear that there might be at least one problem. Here is Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche this

1:11.2

morning saying that all of the files are not going to be released today. I expect that we're going

1:18.9

to release more documents over the next couple of weeks. So today, several hundred thousand. And then

1:25.1

over the next couple weeks, I expect several hundred thousand more. There the next couple weeks I expect several

1:27.5

hundred thousand more there's a lot of eyes looking at these and we want to

1:32.0

make sure that that when we do produce the materials we're producing that

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