Trump Filing Libel Lawsuit Over WSJ Report

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 19 July 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Attorney General Pam Bondi, at the direction of President Trump, asked a federal judge to unseal grand jury testimony related to the prosecution of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:02.5	This is CNN Breaking News.
1:07.1	Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper, and Breaking News just coming in.
1:19.1	President Trump is expected at any minute to file a lawsuit suing Rupert Murdoch, News Corp and the Wall Street Journal.
1:30.5	After the newspapers report last night, we'll have more about that in a second. We're also waiting to see if a judge will allow anything to be released in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal that has rocked the Trump presidency the last couple weeks.
1:34.0	Last night, as you may know, Trump directed the U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to, quote,
1:38.0	produce any and all pertinent grand jury testimony subject to court approval.
1:43.4	We're currently waiting to see exactly what the court might deem pertinent or what the attorney general might deem pertinent. Though we should note, there is a lot of material related to the Epstein files that is not included in the grand jury testimony bucket that President Trump could order released at any moment.
2:02.5	The entire saga is prompting right now several problems for President Trump.
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