Ryan Lucas

You want him like I want you.

You love him like I love you.

This has been a political weakness for the Trump administration.

And so Democrats certainly were eager to focus on it today.

Several times Democrats, in fact, noted that there was a group of women in the hearing room who were victims of Epstein at one point, several points, actually.

They were even asked to stand up.

But Democrats criticized the department for failing to produce all of the files by the deadline required by law.

They also criticized the numerous problems that have been found with the redactions that the Justice Department made to the files.

That includes redacting the names of Epstein's suspected co-conspirators, and in some instances, not redacting the names or photos of victims.

Federal prosecutors have been investigating six Democratic lawmakers in connection with a video they released urging members of the U.S.

military to refuse illegal orders.

Among the lawmakers under investigation are Michigan Senator Alyssa Slotkin and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly.

It was not immediately clear what charges prosecutors were seeking against the lawmakers, but it is very rare for a grand jury to reject prosecutors' efforts to secure an indictment, although it did happen several times during the surge of federal agents in Washington, D.C.

last summer.

There was no immediate comment from the U.S.

Attorney's Office in D.C.

Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.

He was asked point blank whether Trump was treated the same as everyone else who appears in the files and whether everything in there related to him is being released.

It was a pertinent question in part because Blanch himself previously served

as Trump's personal defense attorney.