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Deadline: White House

"Signs of fallout from the Epstein files"

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

News, Ms Now, The White House, Versant, Daily News, Government, Politics, Washington Dc, Msnbc, Nicolle Wallace

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Ali Velshi, in for Nicolle Wallace, on accusations of a cover up by the Trump administration after multiple outlets, including MS NOW, reported that memos and handwritten notes from FBI interviews with a woman who accused Donald Trump of sexual assault when she was a minor, are missing from the Epstein files that were released to the public.

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0:00.0

Hi, everyone, it's 4 o'clock in New York. I'm Ali Melshi in for Nicole Wallace.

0:10.0

Everywhere you look, from the Justice Department and the halls of Congress to the highest echelons of academia,

0:15.3

there are signs of fallout from the Epstein files. Let's start with the Trump Justice Department,

0:19.4

which is facing accusations of a cover-up after multiple outlets, including MS Now, reported that memos and handwritten

0:26.0

notes from FBI interviews with a woman who accused Donald Trump of sexual assault when she was a

0:32.1

minor are missing from the Epstein files that were released to the public. Today, our colleague

0:36.7

Lisa Rubin, reports that the Justice Department may have been tracking

0:39.9

the kind of documents that are now missing.

0:42.3

A memo from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche direct staffers to flag certain documents,

0:47.6

including FBI 302s.

0:50.8

FBI 302s are the forms that FBI agents use to summarize witness interviews.

0:56.4

Among the documents that MS Now and NPR have reported are missing yesterday are 3302s

1:02.3

with a woman who accused Donald Trump of assault when she was about 13 or 14 years old.

1:07.7

We can also report that Blanche asked reviewers to redact, quote, names of confidential sources

1:13.0

or cooperating witnesses. There are reverberations from the Epstein files outside of Washington as well

1:18.7

today. The former Treasury Secretary and former Harvard President Lawrence Summers resigned from

1:23.6

his positions at the university this morning. Summers saying in a statement, quote,

1:27.3

I have made the difficult decision to retire from my Harvard professorship at the university this morning. Summers saying in a statement, quote,

1:31.8

I have made the difficult decision to retire from my Harvard professorship at the end of this academic year.

1:33.3

A spokesman from Harvard says the resignation was, quote, in connection with the ongoing

1:37.1

review by the university of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein that were recently released

1:41.9

by the government.

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