Welcome to the NewsHour. The Justice Department released nearly 30,000 more pages of documents

related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including many that reference

President Donald Trump. The new batch comes as the DOJ is being criticized for not releasing

all of the documents by the deadlines set by Congress and heavily redacting many of those they have put out.

Our White House correspondent Liz Landers has been going through the recent batch, and she joins us now.

Hi, Liz. What is in this latest release?

This is 30,000 more pages that were put up last night, taken down, and then reposted by the Justice Department.

This includes photos, video surveillance, a lot of legal correspondence between different

prosecuting areas that were prosecuting the Epstein and Galane Maxwell case.

There are a few pages of this that are fully redacted, no explanation why. There's also an

email that mentions 10 co-conspirators that the FBI was discussing in 2019. That is some news

that people have picked up on. And there's also a few mentions of President Trump.

Let's talk about some of those mentions of him. We should say the president has not been accused

of any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein, but there are some troubling references in here.

There is a reference in one FBI file that includes a rape allegation. This was apparently

made during the height of the 2020 campaign. There's also a court document that talks about

a 14-year-old girl who was taken to Mara Lago in 1994.

She said that she was there with Jeffrey Epstein, who introduced her to its owner, Donald Trump.

Epstein apparently elbowed Trump playfully asking him, referring to Jane Doe. This is a good one, right?

Trump smiled and nodded in agreement.

They both chuckled and Doe felt uncomfortable, but at the time was too young to understand why.

There was another Department of Justice internal email sent from a U.S. attorney to an unknown person,

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