Todd Blanch

They had no oversight over this review.

They did not tell this department how to do our review, what to look for, what to redact, what to not redact.

They absolutely knew that I was doing this press conference today and that we were releasing the materials today.

But there's not...

There's no oversight by the White House into the process that we've undertaken over the past 60 days.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch says more than 500 lawyers and other Justice Department staff worked through weekends and holidays to comply with the mandate from Congress.

He says the reviewers had to examine the equivalent of two Eiffel Towers of pages to decide what materials to release.

The Justice Department continues to withhold papers that depict violence or involve attorney-client privilege.

DOJ says some of the material contains sensational and false claims that

about President Trump.

On the campaign trail, Trump promised to release the Epstein files.

Once in office, he fought efforts in Congress to press for their full release.

Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.

We said in July, and it remains as true today as it was in July, if we had information, we meaning the Department of Justice, about men who abused women,

we would prosecute them, right?

We talked about the work that we're doing.

That's why I said that.

I said this earlier.

There's this built-in assumption that somehow there's this hidden tranche of information of men that we know about that we're covering up or that we're choosing not to prosecute.

That is not the case.