Hi, everyone. It is 4 o'clock here in New York. I'm Alicia Menendez in for Nicole Wallace.

The Trump administration enters the week under intense scrutiny and facing accusations of a cover-up.

The long-awaited release of documents from the criminal case of deceased sex offender

Jeffrey Epstein, making waves not for what was in those files, but for what was not in those files.

As Politico points out, financial records, internal memos from prosecutors who investigated

Epstein's alleged sex trafficking ring, key material obtained from the searches of Epstein's palatial homes.

None of it figured prominently in the documents released Friday.

Interested in records that would help explain how Epstein grew so wealthy?

None to be found.

Want to read emails from federal prosecutors deciding who to charge,

and equally importantly, who not to charge during their 2019 investigation?

You're out of luck.

In a statement out this morning, multiple survivors of Jeffrey Epstein say that, quote,

the public received a fraction of the files.

And what we received was riddled with abnormal and extreme redactions with no explanation.

At the same time, numerous victim identities were left unredacted, causing real and immediate harm.

It is alarming that the United States Department of Justice, the very agency tasked with upholding the law, has violated the law,

both by withholding massive quantities of documents

and by failing to redact survivors' identities. Survivors deserve truth. Survivors whose

identities are private deserve protection. The public deserves accountability, and the law must

be enforced. Add to that, the sudden deletion of a handful of photos,

one of which showed a desk covered with images, including that of Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.

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