Sarah Fitzpatrick

Nice to see you.

Yeah.

So, I can't get into, you know, the sourcing of my reporting, but what I will tell you is that this is a broad range of documents that cover several different kind of cases and individuals.

So, there's a large amount of material that references Donald Trump, some of it, that is not among the included material.

Now, The New York Times and

NPR has done some great reporting about a specific set of documents related to one accusation, but my reporting is broader than that, about multiple allegations that have been submitted to the FBI and DOJ in recent years and do not appear in the files.

Yes.

I mean, perhaps not.

So much of this investigation, the handling of the Epstein, anything to do with Epstein, has been mishandled from the very beginning, regardless who's been handling it, a Democratic administration, a Republican administration.

But this in particular does surprise me, because remember that the Trump administration, it was a campaign—

promise out on the campaign trail that these files were going to be released.

There was so much interest in it.

Pam Bondi said that the alleged client list was sitting on her desk.

So I think there is a real disconnect between, you know, the interest that they said that they had and then seemingly not having the interest to gain more information about this before, you know, before any of this became public.

Now, I will say it's important that these are investigative materials.

So we would not expect the White House to have access to DOJ materials, or at least we should expect that.

Exactly, exactly.

But I do think it speaks to a kind of larger thing, which is—my reporting reflects, which is that Donald Trump does not share—you know, he has made representations to staffers, to members of Congress and his own party, which have then turned out not to be true on this specific issue.

And so that is raising a real alarm on Capitol Hill and even among some White House staff that they just are caught flat-footed and they cannot fully trust what the president tells them.

She was in here that day.