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News Wrap: House committee subpoenas Bondi over Epstein files

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In our news wrap Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi in its Jeffrey Epstein investigation, Minnesota's governor told lawmakers that the Trump administration's immigration crackdown hurt the state's efforts at fighting fraud and the U.S. launched a joint military operation with Ecuador targeting crime groups. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

In the day's other headlines, the congressional investigation into files related to Jeffrey Epstein is widening.

0:06.5

The Republican-led House Oversight Committee has voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi for what the news hour has learned would be a closed-door taped deposition.

0:15.4

Five Republicans voted with Democrats in favor of the measure.

0:19.1

Bondi will be the highest ranking sitting official to appear

0:21.9

before the panel. She had already fielded Epstein-related questions during a combative appearance

0:27.2

before a separate committee last month. It comes soon after lawmakers requested interviews with

0:32.8

seven other people, including the billionaires, Bill Gates and Leon Black. Separately, the Justice Department says that tens of thousands of Epstein files that were

0:41.8

recently taken down will be reposted soon, telling the news hour, quote, more than 47,000

0:48.1

files were offline for further review and should be ready for reproduction by the end of the week.

0:54.8

Minnesota's governor and attorney general told lawmakers today that the Trump administration's

0:59.0

immigration crackdown hurt their state's efforts at fighting fraud.

1:03.5

Tim Wals and Keith Ellison appeared at a House Oversight Committee hearing today.

1:07.6

The committee chair, James Comer, accused them of, in his words, not being

1:12.0

good stewards of the taxpayer dollars. They in turn tried to put the hearings focus on

1:17.1

the surge of federal agents to Minnesota in recent months, calling it political retribution

1:22.4

at an unparalleled scale.

1:23.9

I'm with you. I want your help on fraud. Why would I not want money to go to the programs

1:29.9

I care deeply about feeding people, clothing people, housing people. But what ICE did disrupted

1:36.1

everything that we were doing. It disrupted our federal partners.

1:40.0

That testimony comes as Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noem faced a second day of questioning

1:46.4

over her oversight of the administration's immigration crackdown, including in Minnesota.

1:52.3

Republican committee chair Jim Jordan praised what he called her amazing record on immigration,

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