Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Kristen Welker on a busy and potentially historic day in Washington as we await the Justice Department's release of hundreds of thousands of documents from its Jeffrey Epstein investigation,

which could come at any moment now. The DOJ facing a deadline today to release all unclassified

records and investigative materials after Congress passed legislation last month ordering it to do

so. There are likely millions of pages of documents and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche today suggesting the administration will not be able to fully comply with that law.

So today is the 30 days when I expect that we're going to release several hundred thousand documents today.

And those documents will come in in all different forms, photographs and other

materials associated with all of the investigations into Mr. Epstein. And so I expect that we're

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

And then over the next couple weeks, I expect several hundred thousand more then over the next couple weeks I expect several hundred

thousand more.

Blanche's comments already kicking up some frustration on Capitol Hill after the bipartisan

authors of the Epstein Transparency Act warned the Justice Department that noncompliance

was not an option.

Let me be very clear.

We need a full release.

Anyone who tamperes with these documents or conceals documents or engages in excessive

redaction will be prosecuted because of obstruction of justice.

We will prosecute individuals regardless of whether they're the Attorney General

or a career or political appointee. But if they refuse to produce these materials, then let's say

whoever is the next president, their Attorney General could bring charges because the statute

of limitations will not have run out on noncompliance with this law.

As the White House braces for the start of the release of these files, the president floating,

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