Today we are joined by the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, Representative

and Congressman from California, Robert Garcia.

Thank you for being here.

Sure thing.

Happy to.

Tell us about the new phase of the Epstein investigation that started yesterday with the hearing

in Florida with survivors.

Yeah, we are really focused right now on hearing from survivors directly and getting their

stories out to the public.

So we had four survivors for the first time in a hearing format actually tell their stories.

They haven't had a chance to do that actually in the congressional record before. You've heard them obviously. Yeah. for the first time in a hearing format actually tell their stories.

They haven't had a chance to do that

actually in the congressional record before.

You've heard them obviously in interviews

and other formats, but to do it in a way

that they can get questions asked of them was really important.

We had one survivor who had really spoke for the first time

and shared her story about how essentially our own government

not only, I mean, really traumatized her twice.

I mean, once when she was, of course, trafficked and abused by Jeffrey Epstein, when the government did nothing to actually help her.

And now, when through the Epstein files, releasing her name and information out to the public, where she gets retramatized again, her identity

exposed because of the failures of the DOJ, because of not redacting their names, but instead

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