What we know about the new Epstein emails released that appear to reference Trump

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00:00The White House is responding to emails released this morning by House Democrats that appear to

00:05show convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein believed President Trump knew more about his

00:09conduct than the president has acknowledged. Three emails were made public, handed over by

00:14the Epstein estate, that seemed to indicate that President Trump knew that Epstein had young girls

00:19around him well before Epstein was convicted for child sex offenses. In one from 2019, Epstein

00:25tells the author Michael Wolff, of course Trump knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine

00:31to stop. It's not exactly what he wanted Ghislaine Maxwell to stop doing. President Trump has

00:37consistently denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein and has not been charged. And the White

00:42House is saying the release of the email exchanges creates a fake narrative to smear the president.

00:47Press Secretary Caroline Levitt spoke more about the emails during today's press briefing.

00:51These emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing

00:57wrong. And it was CBS's own reporting, Ouija, that recently wrote that Ms. Guffrey maintained

01:02and God rest her soul, that she maintained that there was nothing inappropriate she ever witnessed,

01:08that President Trump was always extremely professional and friendly to her.

01:12And so I think it's a question worth asking the Democrat Party, and you should all go ask

01:16them after this briefing of why they chose to redact that name of a victim who has already

01:21publicly made statements about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and is unfortunately no longer

01:26with us. CBS News justice correspondent Scott McFarlane has more on this. Scott, what more do we know

01:31about these emails and the timing of the release? Yeah, this is part of a larger set of records,

01:3623,000 pages or so, obtained by the House Oversight Committee, but not from the Department of Justice,

01:41not from the Trump administration. These come from the estate of the late Jeffrey Epstein under a

01:47congressional subpoena. So what you have here are excerpts released by the Democrats on the House

01:51Oversight Committee of a larger set of records obtained by the entire committee. What stood out

01:56in the releases from the House Oversight Committee are the references to Trump in these Jeffrey Epstein

02:03emails. One from 2011, one from 2019 are underscored by the Democrats here, in which Epstein says that

02:09Trump in 2011 spent hours at my house. That was what he communicated in a 2011 email. In 2019 to an

02:17author, Epstein wrote, of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop. Republicans on

02:25that panel have responded to this release saying that these excerpts were cherry-picked by Democrats

02:31and part of a broader document set. You heard the White House making a similar criticism that they say

02:36this was a leaked set of records to friendly media by Democrats on this panel.

02:41And the White House released a statement saying this, and we just heard from Caroline Levitt there,

02:46that the redacted victim in these emails is Virginia Giuffre, who played a major role in bringing the

02:50Epstein scandal to light and who died by suicide last spring. How do they know that and how meaningful

02:55is it that Giuffre could be the victim or is the victim being referenced in these emails?

03:00I think it's important to note the language there, Lindsay. I'm glad you picked up on it.

03:03They weren't saying that the emails were false. They weren't saying that they were fabricated in

03:07their criticism. They're saying that they were selectively redacted to avoid the name

03:11of a known Epstein victim. Virginia Giuffre was an advocate before she tragically passed earlier

03:19this year. I think if you go deeper into these records and trying to read 23,000 pages of anything

03:24is a heavy lift. Even your favorite author or a novel, it's hard to get through 23,000 pages. This is

03:29a particularly dense set of records. There are some cases difficult to navigate or to decode.

03:35But what we have here from the House Oversight Committee Democrats is just a fraction of what's

03:42out there, with Giuffre's name or otherwise. Scott McFarland, thank you.

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