Welcome to Meet the Press Now.

I'm Kristen Welker in Washington, where we're following breaking news out of the White House tied to two major stories.

The intensifying fallout over its immigration crackdown as the Justice Department announces

it's launched a civil rights investigation into the killing of Alex Preddy by federal officers

with anti-ice demonstrations continuing and the federal government preparing for a temporary partial

shutdown over ICE funding. We will get to those developments in just a moment, but we do want to

begin with the Justice Department's massive and extraordinary release of files tied to Jeffrey Epstein.

The DOJ publishing more than 3 million additional pages of records today, including more than

2,000 videos and 180 images.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche noting millions of additional pages uncovered in DOJ's review were not being released to protect victims or to avoid the disclosure of explicit images,

as was required under the law.

Blanche calling today's release the end of a very comprehensive documentation and

insisting the Justice Department made no efforts to protect President Trump.

I can assure that we complied with the statute. We complied with the act. And there is no,

we did not protect President Trump. We didn't protect or not protect anybody.

I mean, I think that we, that there's a hunger or a thirst for information that I do not think

will be satisfied by the review of these documents. And there's, it's not, there's nothing I can do

about that. Blanche was also adamant the DOJ did not coordinate with the White House as it's reviewed the files.

Look, we, we, I, my team has certain communications with the White House.

Let me just be clear, they had nothing to do with this review.

They had no oversight over this review.

They did not tell this department how to do our review, what to look for, what to redact, what to not

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