Jamie Raskin

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.

He's always got a very original take on things.

He asked Jack Smith whether the cases he brought against Trump, cases which were dismissed once Trump was elected president, he asked whether those cases could ever come back.

Dismissed without prejudice.

This is all he would say.

Jack Smith, very reticent today before the House Judiciary Committee when he's asked whether the indictments he brought against Trump might someday be brought back, whether those trials effectively could go ahead against Trump.