Scrutiny grows over missing Epstein files, partial drop
Way Too Early with Ali Vitali
MS NOW, Ali Vitali
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🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Epstein Files Transparency Act prohibits redactions, quote, |
| 0:07.7 | on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity. |
| 0:13.1 | Has anything been redacted on that basis? |
| 0:19.0 | Absolutely, positively not. |
| 0:21.3 | And that's another trend that is just simply false. |
| 0:26.8 | That was Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche defending the Justice Department's decision not to release all the records related to Jeffrey Epstein, saying the move wasn't politically motivated. |
| 0:36.9 | The question is once again, when will all these files actually be released? |
| 0:41.0 | Plus, the U.S. Coast Guard says it's in active pursuit of another tanker off the coast of Venezuela. |
| 0:46.3 | The question is, what comes next in President Trump's pressure campaign against the Venezuelan president? |
| 0:51.9 | And Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik is dropping her bid for New York governor, as well as leaving Congress. |
| 0:57.2 | The question is, what caused this rising GOP star who once had Trump's support to surprise us all and just drop out of the race? |
| 1:04.4 | It's way too early for this. |
| 1:19.5 | Thank you. Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that's going to think twice before getting into a driverless taxi during a blackout. That's actually a thing. We're going to explain |
| 1:23.7 | that story in just a bit. Mally Vitale on this Monday, December 22nd, |
| 1:31.2 | and we'll start with the big news from Friday all over the weekend until this morning, |
| 1:34.9 | because there are growing questions with the Trump administration caught in a new heated debate over the slow and redacted rollout of the Epstein files. On Friday, the DOJ published a heavily |
| 1:40.6 | redacted portion of the files on its website, despite the law requiring |
| 1:44.2 | the documents be made public in full. The files released, spanned investigations from Palm Beach |
| 1:49.5 | Police in 2005 to federal cases in 2008 and 2019. They also contained phone records, travel |
| 1:55.2 | logs, and victim interviews. The redacted documents added little new insight into Epstein's |
| 2:00.3 | ties to powerful figures, |
| 2:01.7 | and they included pictures of former President Bill Clinton and others. Most references to Trump, |
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