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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

Nothing to Prosecute

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

CNN

News

3.2865 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Following the release over the weekend of millions more Epstein files, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says no new charges will be brought in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation ... A five year old boy and his father are out of federal custody. What's next in their fight to stay here in the United States? ... President Trump announces that the Kennedy Center will shut down for two years this summer. What is the Kennedy family saying now?    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Happening now, nothing to prosecute. That's what the Justice Department is now saying about the release of millions of new Epstein files.

0:10.0

Plus, new backlash this morning over what was left unredacted.

0:15.0

Back in Minnesota, a five-year-old boy and his father are out of federal custody.

0:20.0

What's next in their fight to stay here in the

0:22.7

United States? Plus, closing for construction. President Trump announcing that the Kennedy Center

0:28.9

will shut down for two years this summer. What is the Kennedy family saying now? Welcome to our

0:35.9

viewers here in the United States

0:37.7

and around the world.

0:39.3

I'm Wolf Blitzer.

0:40.2

Pamela Brown is off this morning.

0:42.3

You're in the situation room.

0:51.2

Happening now, President Trump threatening to sue

0:54.0

Grammy's host Trevor Noah, who suggested

0:56.5

the president may have visited convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's private island.

1:02.9

The president posting on social media saying in part, and I'm quoting now, I have never been

1:07.9

to Epstein Island nor anywhere close." End quote.

1:11.3

This comes just days after the U.S. Justice Department released more than 3 million pages

1:16.6

of files from the Epstein investigation.

1:19.5

President Trump has mentioned more than 1,000 times in the newly released documents.

1:24.3

The Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche signaling that no additional

1:29.5

charges will be filed. There's a lot of horrible photographs that appear to be taken by Mr.

1:38.2

Epstein or were people around him, but that doesn't allow us necessarily to prosecute somebody.

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