00:00As you'll recall, the travel of this was that a woman testified to FBI agents that she had been both
00:07sexually and physically assaulted by Donald Trump around the ages of 14 to 15.
00:13There were FBI 302s that resulted from those investigations, from those interviews.
00:21In the first call, the only 302s that were released were the ones that did not mention Donald Trump.
00:30When the department was caught having held back the other ones, I think because bait stamps revealed their existence, the
00:40department then coughed up the 302s that did mention Donald Trump.
00:46But we still have 37 undisclosed pages that seemed to be the contemporaneous FBI notes that would have formed the
00:57basis for the 302 summaries.
01:00Let's change to Jeffrey Epstein.
01:07With considerable effort by ranking member Wyden on the Finance Committee, a bevy of suspicious activity reports were brought to
01:22everyone's attention.
01:23Those suspicious activity reports related to financial transactions with accounts associated with Jeffrey Epstein.
01:37In some cases with banks, in some cases with banks, Russian banks that have since been put under various restrictions,
01:45and in some cases dealing with old Soviet countries and Russia itself.
01:53Now, you have Epstein-associated accounts, you have transactions that relate to sanctioned banks,
02:09you have the reason that these were suspicious activity reports being denominated as danger of money laundering,
02:21danger of trafficking.
02:25So, and by the way, their headline is suspicious activity reports,
02:31which I think is a pretty good clue that there could be suspicious activity in there.
02:36Has there been any investigation by the FBI into those Epstein-related suspicious activity reports?
02:47So, the SARs that you're referring to are a tool in which the Treasury Department initiates an investigation based on
02:53information produced by the banking system.
02:55And so, any suspicious activity reports go first to the United States Treasury,
03:00and if there's something that they find, they refer it to us.
03:03So, there's been no referral?
03:05I'll have to go back and check.
03:07And the FBI can't look into suspicious activity reports on its own?
03:11It's the province of the Treasury Department first.
03:14First.
03:15But if they don't move, for whatever reason, when you have Epstein suspicious activity reports that are reported to actually
03:23even relate to trafficking of girls,
03:28shouldn't that be enough to get the FBI to follow up on that?
03:32We'll follow up on any credible information, as I've said since day one.
03:35But you didn't with respect to these suspicious activity reports, correct?
03:38I'm saying I didn't.
03:39I'm saying I'd have to check and get back to you.
03:41Okay.
03:42Well, Mr. Chairman, we went like zero for answers from the FBI for our questions for the record from a
03:50year ago.
03:51So, I hope that if, since the witness is now here under oath, said that he's willing to get back
03:57to me on that,
03:58I hope that I can have the chairman's support in getting answers when we ask that as a question for
04:03the record.
04:03Please give back to him on that.
04:05Yes, sir.
04:06So, also related to Epstein, we have law enforcement authorities in Poland, Norway, and Latvia
04:17who have said that the department has not responded to requests for Epstein-related information in their investigations
04:27into Jeffrey Epstein and his network, and there's public reporting from the United Kingdom that they, too, have not been
04:39provided requested information.
04:43This tends to go through your legats, and I would assume that the FBI was involved in processing those requests
04:51for Epstein information.
04:52What is the status of those requests, and why has the FBI not yet provided the requested Epstein information to
05:00your law enforcement coordinates in those four countries?
05:05Well, as you said, it's a request to the Department of Justice, so they can comment on the status of
05:11it.
05:11If we assisted in any request for information, like we do all the time with our European partners,
05:16we produce relevant information that we are lawfully allowed to give and turn it over to the department to hand
05:21over to our partners.
05:22I don't know the status of each individual case.
05:25Do you know whether any information has been provided to these four countries' law enforcement operations related to Jeffrey Epstein?
05:36I'm not familiar with the four countries you're talking about, what law enforcement they're talking about.
05:39But we always and routinely provide information.
05:44Well, I guess we'll have to follow up on that.
05:50I had thought that investigations related to Jeffrey Epstein would be enough of a priority
05:58that when other sovereign nations ask you for Epstein-related information
06:02and there's public reporting that you've failed to comply with their requests,
06:08that that would be something you would know about and not be caught by surprise by in a...
06:14Well, I'm not sure what public reporting you're talking about, but public reporting generally is inaccurate.
06:19Well, this is authorities in Poland, Norway, and Latvia specifically.
06:23It's not just the public reporting.
06:27Well, let's try something else then.
06:29Let's try the remaining pages of the FBI documents that have not yet been provided pursuant to the Epstein disclosure
06:42law.
06:43As you'll recall, the travel of this was that a woman testified to FBI agents
06:50that she had been both sexually and physically assaulted by Donald Trump around the ages of 14 to 15.
06:56There were FBI 302s that resulted from those investigations, from those interviews.
07:05In the first cull, the only 302s that were released were the ones that did not mention Donald Trump.
07:14When the department was caught having held back the other ones, I think because bait stamps revealed their existence,
07:23the department then coughed up the 302s that did mention Donald Trump,
07:31but we still have 37 undisclosed pages that seem to be the contemporaneous FBI notes
07:39that would have formed the basis for the 302 summaries.
07:44Am I accurate in suggesting that those 37 pages likely include the FBI contemporaneous notes from that interview,
07:55from those interviews?
07:57We have complied with the statute and the court orders
08:01and produced 3.5 million pages of documents for the first time ever.
08:05Investigators looked at the information in real time in the prior administration
08:09and made the determinations on referrals for prosecution and not.
08:12We've also repeatedly stated if there's new information, we want everyone to come forward
08:17so that we can analyze that information as to what is and isn't remaining.
08:21So what are those 37 pages?
08:23I don't know what you're referencing.
08:25We've produced 3.5 million pages, and we will continue to comply with it.
08:29Yeah, but not these 37.
08:30You say there's 37 pages.
08:32Thank you, Chairman.
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