Helena Humphrey

So, for example, frequently you would see the Attorney General try to pivot to speak about what she sees as success from the Trump administration and the Department of Justice with a record on cracking down on immigration, driving down crime rates.

or those conversations would simply become explosive.

You heard some of those exchanges there.

We did start the hearing by seeing what was a potentially powerful moment from the Democratic Congresswoman Jayapal.

She asked the survivors who were in the chamber to stand up, to stand up behind the Attorney General, and then she called on Ms Bondi to apologise to them for not having met with them previously.

in person and essentially what we saw is it descended into a fiery exchange and Miss Bondi didn't apologise and she dismissed this all as theatrics.

That said, she did say sorry and apologise for what they had endured at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein.

A similar tone, I think it's fair to say, with Jeffrey Nadler, the Democratic congressman.

He had asked that very pointed question.

with the release of these Epstein files.

Had there been alleged co-conspirators indicted?

She refused to answer the question.

They ended up shouting at each other.

And then we saw one Democratic Congresswoman, Becca Ballin, actually storm out of the chamber.

Now, she had been repeatedly...

asking the Attorney General about the Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, if they had followed up with further questioning of him since he had admitted that he had met with Jeffrey Epstein on several occasions, including after the conviction of Epstein for soliciting a minor for sex.

And ultimately, that became so heated that she stormed out of the chamber.

One thing that we did hear from the Attorney General was that

The names of survivors who were included in the latest tranche of those documents would be retroactively redacted.

But I think for many of the survivors who came to the Hill today, for many of the survivors around the world, that will be cold comfort because they know that their names, addresses, identities, the trauma that they went through, in some cases nude photographs.