The new NPR investigation reveals the Justice Department withheld portions of the Jeffrey Epstein files that contain allegations involving President Trump,

including material tied to claims that Mr. Trump sexually abused a minor and that some pages mentioning him were removed from the public record.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee called that out today,

saying the DOJ's withholding of information could amount to a crime. For more on that and the

surrounding fallout, we're joined now by Julie K. Brown, investigative reporter for the Miami Herald,

whose reporting helped expose much of the Epstein Network. Julie, welcome back to the program.

It's great to have you. Thank you. I want to start with this NPR reporting that the Justice Department

withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor,

which we should say the White House denies. What stands out to you about it?

Well, I think what stands out is that we don't have the reports, even though we know

they exist. This stems from an interview that they conducted that came out of a tip to the FBI

about this woman who has said that she, when she was 13, that she was sexually assaulted by Donald Trump.

Now, one of her interviews is contained in the Epstein files, although it is heavily redacted,

so it's hard to know exactly what she told the FBI.

But as a result of that, we were able to see some of the report numbers and the Bates Stamps on it.

And an independent journalist actually named Roger Sullenberger was the person that found out that compared that number to the documents that the Southern District of New York prosecutors gave to

McGillan Maxwell's lawyers as part of her criminal case. You broke this story eight years ago

with your investigative reporting with the benefit of time and hindsight. What do you see more

clearly now about how power insulated Jeffrey Epstein and how much

of that protective structure still exists? Well, I think it shows that it absolutely does exist.

I mean, the fact that we aren't getting the full picture that these files are so heavily redacted,

that there are names of men in these files that have heavily redacted, that there are names of men in these files that have been

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