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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Reports say DOJ told Trump: YOU'RE IN THE EPSTEIN FILES

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

NBC News

News, Politics

4.5664 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki relays breaking news from the Wall Street Journal that Attorney General Pam Bondi told Donald Trump in May that that his name is in the Epstein files, suggesting the reason the Trump administration has been so energized to prevent the release of material related to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So in the House, there is a subcommittee on federal law enforcement. It's a part of the oversight committee.

0:06.4

And it's one of the many congressional subcommittees you may have never heard of.

0:11.0

And as the name suggests, their job is to oversee federal law enforcement. That's what they do.

0:16.2

One of the interesting things about the committee is that its Republican members are a murderers

0:21.7

row of sorts of complete and utter MAGA fanatics.

0:25.1

I mean, this must be a committee that Trump's most loyal supporters in Congress are begging

0:30.6

for help to get on.

0:32.3

Because here's who's on it.

0:33.9

There's Arizona Congressman Andy Biggs who said last year that the number one job of Congress was to get Trump reelected.

0:40.3

There's South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace, who is so enthralled with Trump, she's asked him to build another so-called alligator Alcatraz immigration prison in her home state.

0:52.0

There's Pennsylvania Congressman Scott Perry who played a key role in Trump's

0:55.7

efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. And there's Colorado congresswoman Lauren

1:01.1

Billbert. And for that one, I'm just going to leave it at that because you know certainly who she is.

1:06.8

Now, as we all know, Republicans controls Congress, which means they outnumber Democrats on every

1:12.0

committee and on every subcommittee, like this one. So this is not the kind of committee that you would

1:16.8

expect to defy the president's wishes. But earlier this evening, that is exactly what happened.

1:23.5

It started when the ranking Democrat on that committee, Congresswoman Summerlee forced committee Republicans to confront their own hypocrisy, which is raging right now, on the issue that has consumed Trump's presidency.

1:37.4

Right now, Speaker Johnson is helping Donald Trump block the release of all the files relating to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

1:44.9

If you want to take a stand against child trafficking, let's do it together. Rep Biggs has said, we want to get to the

1:50.1

bottom of it. Rep. Mesa stated, I believe we need answers on Epstein. Rep. Perry has written to Pam Bondi

1:55.8

on Espine saying, the American people deserve answers and justice. Rep. Bobert said we deserve the truth about the

2:02.3

Epstein files. So I hope my Republican colleagues will join me in supporting a motion to subpoena the

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