Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. A federal judge says the Justice Department may have engaged in profound investigative missteps in its prosecution of former FBI director James Comey. NPR's Ryan Lucas reports the judge has ordered prosecutors to turn over all grand jury materials to Comey's lawyers.

Comey was indicted by a grand jury in September on false statements and

obstruction charges tied to his congressional testimony in 2020.

His attorneys have requested the grand jury materials arguing that irregularities may have

tainted the prosecution. Now, Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick has granted that request.

In an opinion, Fitzpatrick says the record, quote, points to a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps that led an FBI agent and a prosecutor to potentially undermine the integrity of the grand jury proceedings.

This is one of several ways Comey is challenging the Trump Justice Department's

case against him. Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington. President Trump says he would sign a bill to force

the Justice Department to release files in the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. NPR's

Franco Ordonez reports the House is expected to vote on it tomorrow. President Trump says the

case has turned into a distraction from his administration's work.

Let the Senate look at it, let anybody look at it.

But don't talk about it too much, because honestly, I don't want to take it away from us.

It's really a Democrat problem.

The Democrats were Epstein's friends, all of them, and it's a hoax.

Trump and Epstein were friends until they had a falling out several years before Epstein's

first conviction. For months, Trump and his supporters fought to block the vote on releasing

the Epstein materials, but it became increasingly clear that it would pass anyway.

And this weekend, in a dramatic change of course, Trump called on House Republicans to support the measure.

Franco, Ordojouz, NPR News, the White House.

Overdue economic data are expected this week.

NPR's Scott Horsley reports that includes late summer tallies of exports and imports and a snapshot of the job market in early fall.

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