Inside House Democrats’ Report Calling For Special Counsel Probe Into Trump’s Ties To Epstein

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1:27Sydney Kamlag: The report is over 50 pages long and in it are some shocking claims, including that not only, quote, Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of young women during the mid to late 1990s, but the DOJ and the FBI are keeping Americans in the dark about it. That's what the report claims. President Trump, as we know, has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing related to Epstein. But to start off the conversation, how did this report come together? Well, the report came together because we know that the American people want the truth about the Epstein files. And they thought they were going to get it when we passed the Epstein Transparency Act law.

2:12And what they have continued to see is both the president and DOJ actively working to confuse and to conceal evidence. And this means that the Department of Justice and the American government are not are failing to protect the American people. They are failing to fight for the survivors and they are failing to fight for justice. And that is how this report came about, because Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee want that transparency. They want justice for the survivors. And we have an obligation to connect the dots or help to connect the dots for the American people about the role that this president has played in these Epstein crimes.

3:00Sydney Kamlag: I'm sure if I were the DOJ, I would be saying, hey, we released over three million materials related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein since the Epstein Files Transparency Act was signed into law last year. What would be your response to that? Yeah, my response to that would be, hey, DOJ, we know and you know that you are super sus. What we do know is that it took them a very long time to release information. We do know that it was botched. The release was botched. They slow walked it and then botched it by revealing names of survivors and then redacting other names. What we also know now from this report are all of these inconsistencies.

3:43For example, Donald Trump said, you know, he distanced himself from Epstein and was not on the plane. Reports now reveal that he was on Epstein's plane at least eight times. It was also revealed that Donald Trump, you know, said he told Epstein, you can't come to Mar-a-Lago. There's records in the report that show him actually saying that he never said that. There's also new information revealed that Todd Blanchett communicated with Ghislaine Maxwell, asking her not to share some information about a Jane Doe because it would implicate Donald Trump. And after that conversation, she somehow ended up in a cushier prison.

4:24So we have information that's in this report that kind of shows how Todd Blanche is continuing to serve as Donald Trump's personal attorney and is working to actively conceal evidence and information that implicates Donald Trump.

4:41Sydney Kamlag: Before we get more into President Trump, I do want to talk about Attorney General Todd Blanche, because at the time he met with Ghislaine Maxwell, it was last summer in 2025. He was then the deputy AG. And in this report, you're saying that in that meeting, he allegedly directed her, Ghislaine Maxwell, I mean, she's the only person ever convicted of a crime related to Jeffrey Epstein, directed her not to bring up a certain witness. Talk to us about what you learned and how you learned it about that conversation. When you spend enough time around great companies, you notice that the best ones treat trust as a growth strategy, not a box to check.

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6:03With Shopify on your side, turn your big business idea into... Sign up for your$1 per month trial at shopify.com slash special offer. So we have staff on the committee that have been working on this for quite a long time. And in fact, have been working with the Coalition of Survivors that have been courageously getting up every single day and continuing to talk about some of the most painful parts of their life. They have put together an exhibition. They have shared binders and binders and binders of this evidence. And they have continued to actually search for new survivors to come forth and share their story as well.

6:42So this is a culminating effort of so many interviews and active efforts coming from Democrats and our staff on House Judiciary. so you talked about you know Todd Blanche and what we were able to find was that I guess they had like a two-day interview right Todd Blanche and Ghislaine Maxwell and he sort of directed her you know at least three times to not talk about this woman to not talk about Jane Doe because if you kind of if you talk about it and you put it out there and then you have to start asking other questions and sort of then the whole thing unravels and it was going to unravel to the point where it would really implicate Donald Trump.

7:25And we know that Todd Blanche is, I think, number one priority is to continue to shield Donald Trump from the truth related to the Epstein files.

7:37Sydney Kamlag: I want to read verbatim a big charge in this report. This is what it says. The actual evidence we have seen, as shared in the accounts and stories of 11 women, each described below, it goes on to describe it, indicates that Trump abused, assaulted, and even raped numerous women alongside and in coordination with the most infamous sex trafficker in history. That's a big statement about the sitting president of the United States. Talk to us about that because that is something President Trump has repeatedly denied now for years. Even after this report was released, his spokesperson has in multiple statements denied that he was ever, they said he was totally exonerated on anything related to Epstein, has denied wrongdoing related to Epstein.

8:25Sydney Kamlag: Right. They're continuing to say that because they know that the Epstein files are incredibly important to the American people because it really is about survivors. It is about fighting for survivors, standing up to human trafficking, to sexual assault, to sexual assault against minors. And it's also about the integrity of this country. And it's about a president that you can no longer trust. As you mentioned, there's some bombshells in this report. And so five women, right, directly actually accused Donald Trump of rape or sexual assault in, I think, either Epstein's company or in his presence.

9:09And there are three survivors in and this might be additional information, that sort of describe encounters in which either Ghislaine or Epstein were sort of making them, making these women available to Trump and suggesting that Trump was in on it. So that coupled with, you know, new survivors that have come up and come out and also have said that Trump, you know, allegedly raped and assaulted them on top of the survivors that have already come out. So a very disturbing pattern of covering up the truth, obfuscating evidence and a DOJ that's also actively involved in disappearing evidence and accountability.

9:56And I think that's very damning. I remember when we had the judiciary hearing with Pam Bondi, and there were the survivors behind her, and she refused to acknowledge them, let alone to apologize. And there were many of us on the Democratic side that were actually, you know, submitting into the record contradictory statements coming from Donald Trump and stories of him in a car with a young woman, you know, assaulting her, making demands. And I believe that woman was underage, if I remember correctly. And so those stories shared under oath in a judiciary committee, coupled with this new information that's been revealed, I think, A, very damning, has major implications for the president and for DOJ and Todd Blanche, and will be more fully investigated after the election.

10:59Sydney Kamlag: And you guys are calling for more investigations. You're calling for a special counsel investigation into not only President Trump, but any of Epstein's potential co-conspirators and accomplices. What do you want to come out of those investigations? How would you want them to go about them? And what are you specifically looking for? Well, I think survivors deserve some dignity in this process, and they have not received a dignified process. They also deserve some transparency and accountability, as do the American people. So my hope is that, A, we will win in November. We will then have the gavels, which will mean we will be able to dictate the agendas.

11:44We will be able to subpoena people like Todd Blanche to come before us if he doesn't want to of his own accord. I have to just share that Todd Blanche has yet to come before the Judiciary Committee. I think that's astounding that we have not even had our AG come before us this entire year. And so we know that we cannot trust Todd Blanche. We cannot trust the DOJ. we are, and they and the Republicans, we have not conducted any kind of investigation this term. We will do that. We will call for an independent investigation. We will call for special counsel to do it. And we will hold hearings and bring that information before the American people.

12:27Sydney Kamlag: Just to peel back the curtain a little bit here, what typically is the attorney general's relationship with the Judiciary Committee? Do they come before the committee at least once a year? I mean, what does that look like? Because you're saying this is unusual. Well, when I first got to Congress, we had the Congress was run by Republicans and we had a Democratic administration. And I was in committees and we would have the Secretary of State or we would have the attorney general, we would have secretary level officials come before us regularly. I mean, we had over a dozen hearings in foreign affairs on Afghanistan, and we had high level officials, including the secretary of state show up.

13:17It is unusual to not have the head of a department, an agency, or a cabinet secretary not come before you at all. At least they come before you when they are asking for dollars during the appropriation process. And this has not happened at all with Todd Blanche. Partially it is because Republicans have not asked him to show up. We will be able to make that ask, to make that demand, to subpoena him if he doesn't show up and demand that he show up before the American people and answer the questions that they've been wanting answered for a very long time.

14:01Sydney Kamlag: This report was released a week before the midterms and Time Magazine reported that the White House spokesperson said this to them, quote, this report is nothing more than a desperate attempt by crazed Democrats to distract Americans from the surging Republican momentum driven by President Trump's historic achievements. What do you make of that criticism, perhaps, that this was timed politically to be released a bombshell one week before an election? That statement is a delusional statement made by someone who's desperately interested in distracting the American people from what is on their minds.

14:40And the American people are thinking every single day about how come it is so expensive for them to live, how it costs too much to even breathe, let alone to get by. They are upset that we have forever wars when we had a president who told us, you know, that he wasn't into wars or forever wars. And they are upset that they feel like they have a government that is lying to them, that is corrupt, and that is not caring or prioritizing or caring about transparency and accountability. When this thing was released makes no difference. It makes no difference. What we are sharing with the American people is that this president is continuing to not tell you the truth about his involvement with Epstein, about his ability to make prices get lower, about his commitment to ensuring that you have health care, about his commitment to lowering the prices of the gas.

15:35All of those things are related. And the American people want a government and a president that they can trust, that they feel is telling them the truth. This report is just revealing that there is dishonesty coming out of the administration, including the president and the Department of Justice.

15:54Sydney Kamlag: Zooming out here and just talking about Epstein in general, I mean, this report describes him as the most infamous sex trafficker in history. When you look at all of the files and everything related to Jeffrey Epstein, it's shocking to a lot of people. And I've had a lot of conversations about Jeffrey Epstein that there's only one person that has ever been convicted of a crime related to him and his sex trafficking network, especially because he has those relationships with the world's most powerful, rich and elite people on this planet. I'm curious, from your position here as a lawmaker, as someone on the House Judiciary Committee, do you think there ever will be accountability?

16:38Sydney Kamlag: Do you think anyone will be held to account for the crimes related to Jeffrey Epstein? I'm certainly going to fight to make that a reality. I've met numerous times with the survivors and they are courageous women who are getting up every single day and telling a story in hopes of protecting another young girl or even boy from being a victim to these kinds of heinous crimes. What you see is a story of a man who was essentially head of an international human trafficking syndicate that employed and enticed and connected to some of the richest and most powerful people in this country and across the world, including our president.

17:34and how he used power and influence to basically enable these heinous crimes to continue. And who suffered? 17-year-old, 16-year-old, 14-year-old, you know, 19-year-old girls who were wooed, you know, to Florida and to New York and to other places and abused by rich and powerful men. And all of this has been covered up by an administration because they know that they too have played an active role in these crimes. So I believe, I do believe that we will work to get closure for these survivors. That is why it is so important for us to hold hearings when we get the gavels, to hold Todd Blanche and the DOJ and Donald Trump accountable, to expose the lies and the cover-up, to at some point rebuild the faith that DOJ needs from the American people so that we all feel safe that we have a Department of Justice that that's really going to work to protect all of us from bad crimes that happen.

18:43It is a large task, but I do think it's something that we can make happen.

18:49Sydney Kamlag: Congresswoman, I really appreciate the time today. Thank you so much for joining me. You're welcome back anytime. Thank you so much for having me.

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