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🗓️ 20 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Well, it's been 30 days since Donald Trump signed a bill into law requiring the Justice Department |
| 0:05.1 | to, quote, release all documents and records in possession of the Department of Justice relating to Jeffrey Epstein, end quote, all documents and records. |
| 0:14.5 | But this morning on Fox, Donald Trump's former criminal defense lawyer and now acting deputy attorney, I'm sorry, now the deputy attorney |
| 0:21.4 | general of the United States, Todd Blanche, announced that the Trump administration would be violating |
| 0:26.7 | the Epstein Files Transparency Act. |
| 0:30.0 | I expect that we're going to release more documents over the next couple of weeks. |
| 0:34.7 | So today, several hundred thousand. |
| 0:37.3 | And then over the next couple weeks, I expect several hundred thousand more. |
| 0:42.8 | Hours later, the Trump Justice Department released some, not all of its files on Epstein. |
| 0:48.0 | And today, our next guest, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, Jamie Raskin, |
| 0:52.6 | released a joint statement with the top Democrat |
| 0:55.1 | on the House Oversight Committee, Robert Garcia, saying, quote, Donald Trump and the Department |
| 0:59.6 | of Justice are now violating federal law as they continue covering up the facts and the evidence |
| 1:05.8 | about Jeffrey Epstein's decades-long billion-dollar international sex trafficking ring. For months, Pam Bondi has denied |
| 1:13.6 | survivors the transparency and accountability they have demanded and deserve and have defied |
| 1:19.5 | the Oversight Committee's subpoena. The Democrats of the Department of Justice is now making it |
| 1:24.8 | clear that it intends to defy Congress itself, even as it gives star treatment to Epstein's convicted co-conspirator Gillane Maxwell. |
| 1:33.7 | Courts around the country have repeatedly intervened when this administration has broken the law. |
| 1:38.4 | We are now examining all legal options in the face of this violation of federal law. |
| 1:43.5 | The survivors of this nightmare deserve |
| 1:45.4 | justice. The co-conspirators must be held accountable, and the American people deserve complete |
| 1:51.0 | transparency from DOJ. The Justice Department posted 3,965 files on a page titled Epstein Library |
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