Ayesha Bakshi

But Thomas Massey, the Republican from Kentucky, in the hearing suggested that there was a document in which someone from the Justice Department may have labeled Les Wexner as a potential co-conspirator in relation to Epstein at one point.

And he said that that name was redacted in that document.

and basically suggested to Pam Bondi that it's a signal that there may be a cover-up happening here.

It's important to note Pam Bondi really pushed back against that.

She said that Les Wexner's name was revealed in other documents, even if not in that one, and she expressed some kind of skepticism.

as if the congressman was trying to create a controversy where there wasn't one.

But his big point is that this particular document was suggesting that Wexner might have been a co-conspirator.

And that was valuable for the American people to know that someone in the DOJ might have thought that at one point.

And Pam Bondi also said that people weren't going after the Biden administration in the same way over the Epstein documents.

And Thomas Massey fired back and said he agrees that basically he thinks there's been a cover up across multiple administrations.

He said that this story is worse than Watergate.

And now he's asking the attorney general about her role in her Justice Department's role in bringing what he thinks is much needed transparency to the case.

Pam Bondi had definitely expressed sympathy for victims of Jeffrey Epstein.

She said in her opening remarks that she's sorry for what they have gone through.

And she defended what the Justice Department is doing here.

The Justice Department has said that it is actively working to shield any victim names that were released from

when the files were more fully put out at the end of January.

We know that many victims' names or alleged victims' names were included.

The Justice Department has provided an email link where if anyone sees someone who may be a victim in the released files,

You can tell the Justice Department about that and they will shield it.