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30,000 additional pages show evidence the U.S.

gathered about Jeffrey Epstein.

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Days after a legal deadline, the Justice Department is still releasing files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

We're going to talk it through with NPR political correspondent Sarah McCammon.

Sarah, good morning.

Okay, so there's some questionable documents here, but what in this batch appears to be true?

Okay.

There's also a letter in this batch of documents that, I mean, it was a real letter.

Somebody seems to have actually mailed it, but people have questions about who really wrote it.

What is it?

Now, you mentioned that in some of the more genuine seeming documents, Trump's name comes up again.

What is the White House saying about all this?