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PBS News Hour - Segments

What's revealed in the latest Epstein files release – and what's redacted

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The Department of Justice released its latest, and likely last, batch of files related to investigations into Jeffrey Epstein. It comes more than a month after the missed deadline set by Congress. The release includes more than 3 million pages, 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. The DOJ says there are redactions, but has not provided a full explanation of what is excluded. Ali Rogin reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

The Department of Justice released its latest and likely last major batch of files related

0:06.5

to investigations into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

0:10.9

This comes more than a month after the DOJ missed a deadline set by Congress and signed

0:15.3

into law by President Trump.

0:17.3

It includes more than 3 million pages, 2,000 videos, and 180,000 images.

0:22.6

The DOJ says there are redactions, including the personally identifiable information of victims,

0:27.6

but the department has not provided a full explanation of what's excluded.

0:32.6

The Deputy Attorney General said the White House did not have oversight over the review or redactions.

0:38.2

We complied with the statute.

0:40.0

We complied with the act.

0:41.8

And there is no, we did not protect President Trump.

0:45.7

We didn't protect or not protect anybody.

0:48.3

There's a hunger or a thirst for information that I do not think will be satisfied by the

0:52.9

review of these documents. And there's nothing I can do about that.

0:58.0

Our team has been going through that document dump today.

1:02.0

And NewsHour Justice Correspondent, Ali Rogan, joins me now with what we know.

1:06.0

So, Ali, what did we learn today?

1:08.0

Amma, this was a massive document dump.

1:10.0

As you said, three million pages.

1:12.4

As you can imagine, our team is still sifting through them.

1:15.5

Before today, for comparison, the DOJ had released about 500,000 pages, so this is orders

1:20.2

of magnitude bigger.

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