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The Justice Department’s long-awaited rollout of the Jeffrey Epstein files has been a chaotic spectacle that, so far, has largely turned the spotlight back to his previously known associates, including President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton, while fueling frustrations.
As of Tuesday evening in Washington, the DOJ had released thousands of pages of heavily redacted records and photos — mostly in two batches several days apart — stemming from investigations of the convicted sex offender. On Wednesday, it said prosecutors in New York identified 1 million more documents potentially related to the probe and that processing the material “may take a few more weeks.”
Already, there have been technical snafus, and reversals on whether to keep certain pages public. Internet sleuths quickly found ways to see through some blacked-out passages.
On this edition, Joe speaks with:
- Erik Larson, Bloomberg News legal reporter
- James Zirin, Former Assistant US Attorney for the Southern District of New York
- Lisa Camooso Miller, Senior Vice President at ROKK Solutions, Former RNC Spokesperson and Republican Strategist & Jeanne Sheehan Zaino, Democracy Visiting Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center and Bloomberg Politics Contributor
- Frank Luntz, Politics and Communications Consultant, Pollster/CEO of FIL Inc on the growing partisan divide
- Denver Riggleman, Former-Republican Congressman from Virginia, United States Air Force Intelligence Officer (Ret.), CEO of RIIG
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