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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Some Survivors’ Names Are Unredacted In Files

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

News

3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

New Epstein files were released today which include new unverified sexual assault allegations that list President Trump and former President Bill Clinton. Plus, former CNN anchor Don Lemon appears in federal court. He is one of two journalists arrested for being at a protest that interrupted a church service in Minnesota. The charges are setting off a major First Amendment debate.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is CNN Breaking News.

0:05.7

Welcome to the lead. I'm Phil Mattingly, in for Jake Tapper.

0:08.6

There are Friday news dumps, and then there's this Friday's news dumps, plural many times over.

0:13.6

We're following breaking news on a number of fronts.

0:16.3

There are new Epstein files and new unverified sexual assault allegations that list President Trump

0:23.4

and former President Bill Clinton.

0:25.5

Some Epstein survivors say their names are unredacted in the new files, and the Justice

0:30.0

Department claims there is no actual list of abusers to prosecute.

0:34.9

Also breaking, former CNN anchor Don Lemon appearing in federal court this hour.

0:39.5

Lemon is one of two journalists arrested for being a protest that interrupted a church service

0:44.2

in the Twin Cities, the charges setting off a major First Amendment debate. And breaking

0:50.3

here in D.C., new questions about why the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsa Gabbard,

0:55.2

was at this week's FBI raid on an election office in Fulton County, Georgia.

0:59.9

Gabbard, well, she was set to appear just hours ago

1:02.8

at a conference of top elections officials.

1:05.1

She canceled.

1:06.1

The state official who was there is headed to our studio now.

1:09.0

And as if that isn't enough, the world learned that

1:12.8

actress Catherine O'Hara has died. She starred, of course, in Home Alone, Beetlejuice,

1:17.6

Schitt's Creek. We're going to get to all of this. But we begin with our Law and Justice

1:23.4

League. The Justice Department today releasing millions of pages of documents in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation file,

1:29.4

CNN reviewing those files pouring over them, and among them appear to be so-called 302 forms,

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