Name: FBI records tied to Trump accuser missing from Epstein files
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There are growing questions this hour about dozens of records that appear to be missing from the Epstein files.

According to a CNN review, those records in question are FBI witness interviews.

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And three of the missing interviews are related to a woman who accused both Jeffrey Epstein and President Trump of sexually assaulting her decades ago.

The top Democrat on the Oversight Committee is among those expressing concern.

I went to the DOJ file search room yesterday to look for these documents that are in the manifest document, and

they should be in there, and they're not there.

These documents relate to a survivor that has made serious allegations about the president.

What's important now is that the DOJ explained to us why were those documents removed.

So, Kara, what more do we know about the specifics of these documents?

Well, Erica, the CNN investigative team have taken a look into these records, and

they found that there are dozens of files that are missing.

And the way that they were able to do this is they looked at the serial numbers on an evidence log provided to Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, and

looking at those serial numbers, discovered that there were dozens of them missing.

That's the FBI form for witness interviews.

And there are 325 included on that list, but there are 90 of them missing.

And within those 90 that are missing includes three from a woman who said that she was sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein going back to when she was as young as 13 years old.

And she also made an allegation that she was sexually assaulted by Donald Trump in the 1980s.

Now, we went to the White House with this.

They said that these are false allegations and it's just sensationalist.

The Justice Department said that they have not deleted any documents and that they said that if there are documents that are not on the public website, that's either because they were duplicates, privileged, or part of an ongoing investigation.

We have seen with the release of these records on the public website that sometimes documents are there, they're taken down, then they're put back up.

It's unclear if there is any process that is underway related to these specific documents and these allegations against Donald Trump.

Donald Trump, though, has not been accused of any wrongdoing.

He's not been investigated for any wrongdoing.

And it's unclear what happened to these specific allegations by this woman who spoke with investigators in 2019.

There was another record in the files, a summary from the FBI about a number of these salacious allegations.

And it said that one person claimed abuse by Trump but refuse to cooperate.

So if that is that same person, it could be that they just reached a dead end.

But of course, Democrats are calling foul, as they have repeatedly, about the Justice Department's process of publicizing the records that are required under the law and redactions that they have taken.

Hours after this story broke today, the Justice Department responded to questions of where these documents are, saying as with all documents flagged by the public, the department is currently reviewing files within that category of production.

Should any document be found to have been improperly tagged in the review process and is responsive to the act, meaning the law that forced them to publish all of this, the department will, of course, publish it consistent with that law.

My source tonight is California Congressman Dave Minn, who is a Democrat on the House Oversight Committee.

When you hear that response from the Justice Department, do you believe that's sufficient?

And at this point, I think it appears clearer and clearer every day that they are knowingly violating and willfully violating the law that we passed that Donald Trump signed into law requiring them to turn over every responsive document.

And I want to be clear, just to clarify two things that I think you alluded to.

One, Donald Trump is accused of sexually assaulting a child in those memos that you mentioned.

Two, that it's not just a few dozen documents that are not being turned over.

Fully half of the documents that we're aware of, some 3 million documents, have not been turned over by the DOJ.

They claim they fully responded and yet we found over and over again.

And I can tell you that oversight Democratic staff have confirmed what you have found, that these documents are missing.

They were not turned over, even though they were very clearly responsive to the questions that we asked.

And this appears to be part of a very broad cover up.

And you may remember back to last May when Pam Bondi reportedly told Donald Trump he was in the Epstein files.

After that, there were a lot of reports that DOJ attorneys were being asked to go redact documents, to hide documents, to remove documents from the files, and

So we're definitely continuing to look at this, but

it appears that the DOJ is willfully violating the law.

And of course, an interview or a witness statement, it doesn't mean that it happened.

I mean, there's, you can read through these documents.

But in terms of what should be published in accordance with the law that you passed.

I mean, do you believe that this is they're intentionally breaking that law or do you think it's because which is what we've heard from doj, they had so much to publish, such a compressed time frame.

And so just to give you a quick heads up on my background, I was a federal enforcement attorney.

To start my career at the sec, I have spent many, many hours doing this type of document review and management and looking things through.

And at this point, I do not believe that this is just a delay in turning the documents over.

The fact that so many Donald Trump related documents have not been turned over, that his name's been repeatedly redacted matches a lot of the reports that we heard that they were trying to cover this up.

And at this point, I think, look, everybody's entitled to their day in court, whether that's Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Les Wexner, anybody else.

But the fact is that everything here looks like the DOJ is again under the direction of Pam Bondi, the AG willfully trying to hide a lot of what's happening right now.

Starting us off, Republican member of the House Oversight Committee, Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna.

Congressman, thank you for joining me this evening.

I mean, you have heard likely the Department of Justice saying that they are looking into whether the files mentioning President Trump were improperly removed.

Do you trust them to be transparent in that inquiry?

I have followed up on a number of occasions similar, and they have been very forthcoming.

I've actually talked directly to Todd Blanche.

And so I will personally be ensuring that that's followed through on.

But I would like to also state that I think that the files that we have currently under this administration are likely not the full files.

I do believe that some were destroyed previously.

And I say that because in January of last year, when I was the only member of Congress that was pushing for the release of these files, we actually had a whistleblower come forward.

I actually introduced legislation because of that.

I even forwarded this finding to the FBI for investigation that there was destruction of evidence.

And so it'll probably require a longer segment, but

I will say that there have been redactions that we've come across.

I've been, and I've looked at the files for a number of hours.

Whenever we flag those files, they are immediately then unredacted.

it does seem to be kind of an internal war going on, even at the Department of Justice, where they have the order, and

then you have some of the attorneys that have been in charge of the redactions.

And so we're doing everything that we can to deliver on transparency.

But as you can see, Epstein and his involved network is quite extensive and involves a lot of people.

Well, Congresswoman, that does not really inspire confidence.

If you believe files have been destroyed, that transparency is not complete, if it's not been thorough.

How can the American public, who are not privy to what you say you've seen, who do not have access to the files, how can they be confident that the Attorney General Bondi, leading this charge, or others who are in charge of providing documents, that they really will do so in the interest of justice?

Well, I think that for starters, you have a bipartisan, bipartisan oversight committee actually working to cover, not cover up, but

We're interviewing the Clintons tomorrow.

But to be clear, I mean, the destruction of evidence occurred under previous administrations.

And that in itself, if you look at the network that was involved with Jeffrey Epstein, I mean, to think that there aren't shady things happening in your government, I think would just be a lie to the American people.

The fact is, is that we did have someone come forward.

They did say that there was destruction of evidence under the former deputy director of the FBI.