and the administration is trying to put the Epstein files behind them. Over the weekend, Attorney General Pam Bondi notified Congress that all the materials had been released along with an explanation of all the redactions made plus a list of public figures whose names appear in the files. Here's a reminder, the Epstein Transparency Act that Trump signed into law actually required the Department of Justice to publicly release all of the Epstein files and to explain its redactions to Congress.But the deadlin ...

THE TRUMP ATTORNEY GENERAL, PAM BONDY, AT TURNS WAS DEFENSIVE, LASHING OUT ON THE ATTACK, DOING OF A LITTLE BIT, GETTING TALKING POINTS, EVEN GETTING PERSONAL. AND FOR ALL THE SKEPTICISM OR CYNICISM IN OUR COUNTRY RIGHT NOW FOR UNDERSTANDABLE SHE HAS BEEN UNDER OATH, HAVING TO DISCUSS A TOPIC THAT SHE HAS SPENT A LONG TIME TRYING TO DOGE ON AND A PRESIDENT WHO TRIED SHE IS NOW TASKED WITH CARRYING OUT, ALL OF THIS SPEAKS TO HOW SOME THINGS ARE STILL WORKING. SHE COULDN'T DODGE THE CONGRESS FOREVER JUST AS T ...

Good evening from New York, I'm Chris Hayes. The United States Department of Justice is functioning as a personal law firm for a corrupt and criminal president. It seems as though its core function these days is to pursue his personal vendettas.Today, the head of that entire rack, Attorney General Palm Pam Bondi, who testified before the House Judiciary Committee about the various ways she is enabling our president's most IT'S NOT GOING TO GO VERY WELL. IT DIDN'T GO VERY WELL. REMEMBER, UNDER BONDI'S WATCH, ...

with the survivors and victims who are here please stand up one more time just by sho of hands how many of you or your loved ones actually have met with the Department of Justice and provided testimony and estimate and evidence none and of those of you who have not met which is everyone how many of you have reached out either individually or through a lawyer or representative to offer to provide testimony and evidence all of them and of those of you all of you who have reached out how many of you were denie ...

WELCOME TO MEET THE PRESS NOW, I'M MELANIE ZANONA IN WASHINGTON, WHERE ATTORNEY GENERAL PAM BONDI WAS DEFIANT AS SHE TESTIFIED BEFORE THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE TODAY. THE HEARING AT TIMES BECOMING CONFRONTATIONAL, ESPECIALLY AS DEMOCRATS PUSH FOR MORE ACCOUNTABILITY ON THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT'S HANDLING OF THE EPSTEIN FILES. IN HER OPENING STATEMENT, ATTORNEY GENERAL PAM BONDI DEFENDED THE ADMINISTRATION'S HANDLING OF THE CASE.>> I AM DEEPLY SORRY FOR WHAT ANY VICTIM, ANY VICTIM, HAS BEEN THROUGH, ESPECI ...

recognized. Thank you, Mr. . Chairman.Ms. . Bondi, I went over to the department yesterday for a couple of hours to review some of the unredacted materials and I am looking forward to your detailed explanation for why you have withheld almost half of the documents which is required by the bill obviously there are three million documents so I didn't get through much but one thing I didn't see was the client list that you said you had on your desk a year ago I did however find a couple of important documents ...

To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this Department of Justice, please know for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.Attorney General Bondi, you apologize to the survivors in your opening statement for what they went through at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein. Will you turn to them now and apologize for what your Department of Justice has put them through with the un ...

from anoer partial government shutdown. This time it's just funding for the Department of Homeland Security, and that's set to expire on Friday at this point. The deadline's approaching after Democrats recently unveiled 10 demands for guardrails on the Trump administration's nationwide immigration crackdown.They include requirements that DHS officers wear body cameras and obtain judicial warrants before entering private property. These are pretty baseline things. But Politico reports that a partial shutdown ...

THERE IS SOME BLOCKBUSTER NE REPORTING TOTODAY IN THE NEW YORK TIMES ABOUT DONALD TRUMP'S EFFORTS TO GUT THE RULE OF LAW IN AMERICA COMPLETELY AND REPLACE IT WITH A SYSTEM OF POLITICAL PROSECUTIONS AND PROSECUTORIAL LENIENCY FOR HIS PARTISAN ALLIES. THERE IS EVIDENCE IN THIS STORY THAT THEY MAY HAVE broken the Department of Justice. The New York Times reveals that given the choice between serving Donald Trump's petty, vindictive conspiratorial interests and maintaining their own integrity, the country's top ...

Are filled with redactions of names and information about people who clearly are not victims and may fall into that other category. So I went over there and I was able to determine, at least I believe, that there were tons of completely unnecessary redactions in addition to the failure to redact the names of victims. And so that's troubling to us.Did you see the names of any potential co-conspirators that were redacted. Well, um, you know, I saw the names of lots of people who were redacted for mysterious o ...