Jamie Raskin

We believe that this administration must release the entire Epstein file, which is compelled both by a congressional subpoena and by a federal law.

At this point, we want all of the information to come out and

the only redactions should be the names of the victims and the identifying information.

Unfortunately, they violated that precept by releasing the names of a lot of victims, which is either spectacular incompetence and sloppiness on their part, or as a lot of the survivors believe, a deliberate threat to other survivors who are thinking about coming forward that they need to be careful because they can be

The Department of Justice has not sent forth its so-called privilege log, so it's not explained yet why there might be certain redactions that have been made.

I saw one document, which was an email that was sent by Jeffrey Epstein to Ghislaine Maxwell, which was the forward of an email that he had received.

from some of his lawyers giving an account of a conversation between Epstein lawyers and Trump lawyers and others about what had taken place during that 2009 period.

It was during the period of the 2009 investigation.

Epstein's lawyers synopsized and quoted Trump as saying that Jeffrey Epstein was not a member of his club at Mar-a-Lago, but he was a guest at Mar-a-Lago, and he had never been asked to leave.

And that was redacted for some—

indeterminate, inscrutable reason.

I know it seems to be at odds with some things that President Trump has been saying recently about how he had kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club or asked him to leave.

And what is your message to President Trump in that case?

So I was never in the room with him socially, for business, or even philanthropy.

If that guy was there, I wasn't going because he's gross.

Welcome back to our special primetime recap of today's historic hearing with Jack Smith, the special counsel who brought two indictments against Donald Trump and who says he was prepared to prove Trump's guilt on dozens of felony counts beyond a reasonable doubt.

As you know, there was a lot to this hearing today.

Republicans came loaded for bear.

They left without any bearskins.

But there was a really interesting moment in today's proceedings, one I certainly did not anticipate, when Democratic Congressman Hank Johnson, very colorful congressman who always comes at things from a different direction, I think, than all of his colleagues.