Fox's Jacqui Heinrich To Leavitt: 'Can You Clarify Which Part Of The Epstein Hoax Is The Hoax Part?'

At her press briefing, Karoline Leavitt was pressed on the Epstein files by Fox News' Jacqui Heinrich.

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00:00for being with us today. Sure. Jackie. Thank you, Caroline. There's been a lot of discussion about

00:05the Epstein files and the president's comments yesterday calling it a hoax. Can you clarify

00:09which part of the Epstein hoax is the hoax part? The president is referring to the fact that

00:16Democrats have now seized on this as if they ever wanted transparency when it comes to Jeffrey

00:21Epstein, which is an asinine suggestion for any Democrat to make. The Democrats had control of

00:27this building, the White House, for four years, and they didn't do a dang thing when it came

00:31to transparency in regards to Jeffrey Epstein and his heinous crimes. It was this president

00:37who directed the Department of Justice and the Attorney General to do an exhaustive review

00:42of all files related to Jeffrey Epstein, which they did. The Attorney General and the FBI,

00:47led by Pam Bondi, Dan Bongino, Kash Patel, these are great patriots, some of the most trusted

00:52voices in the Republican Party movement. It's part of the reason the president appointed

00:56him, appointed them to these high law enforcement positions, and they spent many months going

01:02through all of the files related to Jeffrey Epstein, and they concluded what they found in that

01:07memo, which they drafted and they released. And so the president has been transparent,

01:11he has followed through on his promises to the American people, but he doesn't like to

01:16see Democrats and the mainstream media covering this like it's the biggest story that the American

01:21people care about. The president has been working so hard this week. On Tuesday, he went to Pennsylvania,

01:26where he secured $90 billion in investments for the Commonwealth, for the people of that state.

01:31After that, he came back to the Oval Office at 8 p.m. He went in there to whip votes to get the

01:37Genius Act signed into law. And because of his efforts, that bill is now going to be signed and passed.

01:42The following day, yesterday, he meets with a foreign leader, the king of Bahrain, to secure more investments

01:47into this country. And then yesterday afternoon, the president is in the eastern of the White House,

01:52mourning with parents who have lost their children because of fentanyl, signing a bipartisan piece of legislation.

01:58And not a single cable network in this country took that event live and covered that event like they should.

02:05Those are the issues the president cares about. What could be more important to the American people

02:10than helping families who have lost their children? Those are the issues this president is going to remain focused on.

02:15I understand he wants to move on from this story, but you do have some prominent figures,

02:18including the Senate Majority Leader, the House Speaker, voicing support for the files to come out,

02:26Representative Massey collecting signatures that would force a discharge petition for a vote on the floor

02:32for this. It doesn't seem to be going away. What is stopping the administration from just

02:37redacting any sensitive information, grand jury information, and putting out what is appropriate so that

02:44the American people can decide and then let this story die?

02:47Well, in terms of redactions or grand jury seals, those are questions for the Department of Justice.

02:51Those are also questions for the judges who have that information under a seal. And that would have

02:56to be requested and a judge would have to approve it. That's out of the president's control.

03:00He has said in agreement with some of the leaders on Capitol Hill that if the attorney general and the

03:05Department of Justice come across any other credible evidence, they should provide that to the American people.

03:10The president has said that and he agrees with them on that.