Bondi gets in fiery exchange with GOP’s Massie over unredacted Epstein files exposing victims

Описание: (11 Feb 2026)
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Washington, DC - 11 February 2026
1. Attorney General Pam Bondi sitting at House Judiciary Committee hearing
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Thomas Massie, (R) Kentucky:
"Thank you Mr. Chairman. Behind me I have three documents from the DOJ production that are emblematic of the massive failure of the DOJ to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. To my right is an email that was sent by the victims lawyers to the DOJ. It was a list of names not to redact - or sorry, a list of name not to release. What did the DOJ do with this email? They released this email in the document production. Literally the worst thing you could do to the survivors, you did. And they're getting phone calls. A lot of these people didn't want to be known. And we know you touched the document because you redacted one name and you redacted the lawyer's name but you left the survivor's name there. The next document I wanna show you, and that was in the title, the victim's survivor's names, right? The title of this one is 'Child Sex Trafficking Co-conspirators.' Fully redacted. By the way, I'm going to un-redact them here. Les Wexner is in this. Now, your deputy attorney general said, 'oh, well, he appears hundreds of times in the files.' But he doesn't appear in this file until I forced you to release it, where he's listed as a co-conspirator, not to tax evasion, but to child sex trafficking, not to prostitution, not to money laundering. Child sex trafficking. So, I have several questions for you. Who's responsible? Are you able to track who in your organization made this massive failure and released the victims' names? Are you are able to check who it was that obscured Les Wexner's name as a co-conspirator in an FBI document? Do you have that kind of accountability?"
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General:
"We corrected that within 40 minutes. He was already, you're acting like everybody's trying to cover up Wexner's name...."
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Thomas Massie, (R) Kentucky:
"I'm reclaiming, reclaiming my time."
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General:
"I'm going to answer this question.
(Massie: Reclaiming my time.)
He was.... This isn't how this works."
(Massie: Mr. Chairman...Can I have my time? Mr. Chairman)
(Chairman Jim Jordan, off camera: The gentlelady can can give her answer.)
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General:
"Within 40 minutes, Wexner's name was added back in.
(Massie: Within 40 minutes of me catching you red-handed.)
Red handed? There was one redaction out of over 4,700...
(Massie: Where he's listed as a co-conspirator)
And we invited you in ...This guy has Trump Derangement Syndrome. He needs to...you're a failed politician. You need to get onto things that matter."
7. UPSOUND (English) Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General, wide side shot:
"Did you ask (former Attorney General) Merrick Garland that the last four years? Did you talk about Epstein at all the last four years?"
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Thomas Massie, (R) Kentucky: ++MASSIE BONDI SPLIT SCREEN++
"I'm reclaiming my time. I'm glad you're asking about Merrick Garland because this is bigger than Watergate....
(Bondi: You don't get to reclaim time when I don't answer a question the way you want.)
This goes over four administrations. You don't have to go back to Biden. Let's go back to Obama, let's go back to George Bush.
(Bondi: Let's go).
This coverup spans decades and you are responsible for this portion of it."
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Lou Correa, (D) California:
++ENDS ON A SOUNDBITE++



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