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CNN teams are carefully sifting through the largest and what the Justice Department says is the last batch of Jeffrey Epstein files.

it includes references to some of the richest and most powerful people on the planet.

That includes the current president, a former president, cabinet secretaries, a former prime minister, billionaires.

The Justice Department says tonight that its job is done.

We complied with the act, and there is no.

We didn't protect or not protect anybody.

That there's a hunger or a thirst for information that I do not think will be satisfied by the review of these documents.

So I should note that just because someone is mentioned in these documents does not mean that they've been accused of wrongdoing or did anything wrong.

Many of these claims are unverified or they rely on secondhand information.

But these are the key findings our team has uncovered so far.

And I should note millions of pages have come out.

We are still digging right now in this hour.

Donald Trump's name appears thousands of times in these new documents.

In some, he's merely mentioned in emails that Jeffrey Epstein sent to other people.

But the files also contain a complaint from a woman who accused Trump of raping her in 1994 when she was just 13 years old.

According to the FBI document, this accuser, who is identified as Jane Doe, said that Jeffrey Epstein was, quote, angry that Trump was the one to take her virginity and that she was also raped by Jeffrey Epstein.

This woman had previously launched lawsuits against Trump and dropped them.

The last one happened right before the 2016 election.

The president has previously denied these allegations.

Also included in today's release was a list of sexual assault allegations related to the president compiled by the FBI in August, many of which appear to have come from unverified tips.

there are more than a dozen allegations that are included in it.

But recall what the President has previously said about these documents about the Jeffrey Epstein files.

He said that they are a hoax and that the release of them could ruin people's reputations.

It's been run by the Democrats for four years.

You had Christopher Wray and these characters and Comey before him.

I would say that, you know, these files were made up by Comey.

They were made up by Obama, they were made up by the Biden, you know, and

we went through years of that with the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, with all of the different things that we had to go through.

Just to be clear, Christopher Wray was the President's pick for FBI director that he put into that job.

This also comes as we're learning for the first time about Jeffrey Epstein's contact with Elon Musk.

You may remember Elon Musk dropped what he described as a really big bomb last year.

that was the real reason that they had not been made public.

Well, it turns out, based on what we saw today, Musk is also Epstein files emails show that he tried coordinating multiple visits to Jeffrey Epstein's private island.

Elon Musk asked Jeffrey Epstein, when should we head to your island?

The year before, he said, what day, night would be the wildest party on your island.

Now, this is after Musk claimed in all caps, I should note last year that, quote, Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I refused.

Musk's representatives did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment for explanation for those emails and that contact.

And speaking of distancing and denials, recall what President Trump's Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, said just last year about a 2005 encounter that he had with Epstein at his Manhattan townhouse.

I say to him, massage table in the middle of your house.

And then he, like, gets, like, weirdly close to me.

And he says, and the right kind of massage.

And in the six or eight steps it takes to get from his house to my house, my wife and I decided that I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again.

The files released today show that Howard Lutnick tried to meet or call with Epstein several times after 2005, much longer after.

A 2011 email to Jeffrey Epstein from his assistant reads, howard Lutnick will come see you in 5pm that same year.

The heading of an alarm message reads, drinks with Howard Lutnick.

And Lutnick also emailed Jeffrey Epstein's assistant in 2015 inviting Epstein to a Democratic fundraiser for Hillary Clinton that he was hosting.

Asked for comment on these emails and the correspondence between the two, a spokesperson for the Commerce Department told CNN Secretary Lutnick had limited interactions with Mr.

Epstein in the presence of his wife and has never been accused of wrongdoing Some of the victims of Epstein have expressed frustration with the entire process.

I want to give you the opportunity to speak directly to them.

I mean, if there's frustration with, quote, the entire process.

I mean, you have a situation where for many, many years, nobody even breathed a word about Jeffrey Epstein.

And then all of a sudden, it was all anybody would talk about.

Victims of Mr. Epstein have gone through unspeakable pain, and there's nobody that should say anything differently.

I hope that the work that the men and women within this department have done over the past two months, hopefully is able to bring closure.

And tonight we are hearing directly from Jeffrey Epstein's survivors, who are angry, some of them frustrated that their names showed up unredacted in the files that came out today.

Despite what we heard from the justice department about a pledge to prioritize their privacy, more than a dozen of the survivors issued a new joint statement.

It reads in part, this latest release of Jeffrey Epstein files is being sold as transparency.

But what it actually does is expose survivors.

Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected.

As survivors, we should never be the ones named, scrutinized, and re traumatized.

While Epstein's enablers continue to benefit from secrecy.

This is a betrayal of the very people this process is supposed to serve.

One of the Epstein survivors who signed that statement is Jess Michaels, who says she was sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein when she was 22 years old.

And thank you for being here on a day like today.

We've spoken with many of the survivors on this show before, and I know it's not.

It's not an easy conversation to have, so I really do appreciate you joining us.

When you heard the deputy attorney general today talking about closure, is that what you feel after this release?

Firstly, thank you so much, Caitlin, not only for having me on, but

for continually having Epstein survivors on so that our voices are heard.

There is not a single bit of closure today.

I actually brought a little show and tell for you, Caitlin.

You know how I heard you speaking with the attorney before this about the 302s?

And this is what, the only 302 that could be found so far in the files by someone that was combing the files for hours.

It was seven pages, and four of them looked like this.

So we know that the victim's name is Here.