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'Self-inflicted fiasco': Deputy AG defends removal of Epstein files from website

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

President, Government, Congress, Election, Brezinski, News, Giest, Politics, Campaign, Washington, Ms Now, Scarboro, Issues

3.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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'Self-inflicted fiasco': Deputy AG defends removal of Epstein files from website

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0:00.0

I'm actually going to be renaming a number of our other monuments as well.

0:06.6

Trump Washington Monument.

0:10.4

Trump Lincoln Memorial.

0:13.3

And of course, big alphabet.

0:18.0

That was just for fun.

0:19.5

The third one's always the funny one you know people are saying sir why are you

0:24.1

putting your name on so many buildings and i say it's because we had to take it off of so many files

0:29.8

epstein redacted we had so many trumps in there we had to put them somewhere you know what i'm saying

0:37.0

but with regard to files we're being very transparent because Jeffrey Epstein was a terrible man,

0:42.6

and I didn't know him, and I liked them a lot.

0:45.1

So we released all the files, and I come out, looking, frankly, very good.

0:50.3

We had to redact a few sensitive things, but you'll get the gist here.

0:53.7

Look at this.

0:58.6

Check it out. Trump didn't do nothing bad.

1:05.7

Okay, Saturday Night's take on the massive redactions in the records related to Jeffrey Epstein, the DOJ, released on Friday.

1:14.7

We'll have the latest on why the administration says all of the files were not released despite what the law requires.

1:23.3

John, why we broke the law?

1:24.5

It was all.

1:24.8

Why the Justice Department broke the law?

1:26.8

And why we only released things that had Bill Clinton's pictures in them. Lots of Bill Clinton. Like, yeah. And like, like, we're supposed to go, oh, we're so shocked. Bill Clinton was in a hot tub back in the 90s. I mean, the thing is, they've redacted so much. They're holding so much back. We have Rokana coming at 7 o'clock. You say they're breaking the law. Yeah. Every time the Trump administration responds to the Epstein story, they make it worse. They make it worse. They make it worse. And the redactions here seemly very selective redactions. And then that some of the files that were put online were then pulled back.

2:01.5

The DOJ pulled them back, including at least one that had Donald Trump's picture in it.

2:05.5

It's only raising more questions and sparking anger on both sides of the aisle.

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