Lisa Desjardins:
Right.
And a reminder, we’re talking about Jeffrey Epstein. He’s the financier accused of sex crimes. His conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, was sent to prison for those crimes. He also was connected with many high-profile individuals, friends with Donald Trump, though Trump has disavowed him since.
Here’s what we got tonight, documents like this, 33,000-plus pages of them. But I want to point out, this document, our producer Matt Loffman quickly figured out, is public. This is not something that is special to the Department of Justice. This is something you could find on the Supreme Court’s Web site. This is Ghislaine Maxwell’s — part of her appeal case.
So a lot of this are legal documents. Going through them, we really don’t know how much of it is new. But I am told from House Oversight Republicans that these are all the documents that DOJ has given them so far.
Democrats have said, first of all, that these 34,000 documents is just 1 percent of the total. Now, Republicans are worried about something else going on. That’s a bipartisan effort by two — two Republican — two members of Congress, Democratic Representative Ro Khanna there on the right and then Thomas Massie of Kentucky. They are trying to make an end run around House leadership to force release of all documents, make them all public.
But the question is if the votes are there. And, today, Speaker Johnson made it clear he doesn’t want that effort. And I think this release tonight is an attempt to try and take votes away from that end run, so a lot in play. Do we know that much more about Jeffrey Epstein tonight? Not yet. We will see.
