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Venezuela has disputed the U.S.
's actions and called them criminal.
The seizures come as the Trump administration also continues to launch strikes on boats off the shore of Venezuela that they say are carrying drugs.
More than 100 people have died in those strikes.
Trump, who's spending the rest of the year in Florida, is holding the event with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of the Navy John Phelan.
Congressman Ro Khanna, he's a Democrat who co-sponsored the legislation on the Hill to release these files.
He called this release of documents on Friday incomplete at best.
There were witness interviews with the FBI that he says should be released, as well as a draft indictment from the first Epstein case that was also something he was looking for.
And he wants an explanation from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch on the timeline of when the rest of these files are going to be made public.
On the other side of the aisle, Congressman Thomas Massey, a Republican, he's been posting a lot on social media, agreeing with Khanna, saying that not releasing all of these documents means that Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch are violating the law.
This second incident stopping an oil tanker comes after Trump announced a blockade on sanctioned oil tankers coming in and out of Venezuela.
Venezuela has responded and called the U.S.
actions on the second oil tanker, quote, criminal.
It comes as more than 100 people have been killed in U.S.
strikes on boats off the coast of Venezuela that the Trump administration says are smuggling drugs.
To complicate matters, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles told Vanity Fair that Trump, quote, wants to keep on blowing boats up until Maduro cries uncle, implying that Trump wants Maduro out of office.
This second incident stopping an oil tanker comes after Trump announced a blockade on sanctioned oil tankers coming in and out of Venezuela.