This past Friday, pursuant to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the Department of Justice was supposed to release all of the Epstein files, with minimal redactions, of course, to protect the information and identity of nearly 1,200 survivors.

But the Department of Justice violated that law. Pam Bondi broke the law. She did not release all the files. She actually released a very small portion of the files and said they're going to release them on a rolling basis, which the law doesn't allow for. And what they did release was, it wasn't as heavily redacted. And they're even going in now and pulling stuff out that was released yesterday. It's a mess.

But sources even told Fox News that the Department of Justice redacted politically exposed individuals and government officials with as much care as they redacted information about the survivors, which they were not supposed to do.

Hundreds of pages are fully blacked out in this

release. I mean, that's why they gave up this past spring when they locked a thousand FBI

agents in a building and forced them to redact Trump's name from the files because they knew

releasing the files with that many redactions would look really bad. It would prove that they

were complicit in a cover-up. So they scrapped the whole project. But among the documents that

actually were released this past Friday, there's a report made by Annie Farmer's sister, Maria,

to the FBI in September of 1996 about child sexual assault material, child pornography.

Now, this was actually the first report about Epstein to the FBI, but the FBI sat on this for a

decade before it bothered investigating the sex trafficking ring more thoroughly.

And even though people called Annie and her sisters, liars,

even though they accused them of inventing the story from Whole Cloth,

the FBI wouldn't even acknowledge the existence of the report,

not even to Maria Farmer, who made the initial report.

But Friday, when New York Times, a reporter

named Mike Baker, reached out to Maria and Annie and told them that their 1996 report to the FBI

had been released, they broke down in tears. I'll be speaking with Annie Farmer on today's

episode of The Breakdown.

Hey, everybody, I'm Alison Gill. Welcome to The Breakdown. Joining me today is Annie Farmer. Annie,

you and I have been corresponding for a while on Signal. It is great to put a face to the name. Thank you for

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