President Trump says he signed Epstein bill

I'm Lindseay Davis. Thanks so much for streaming with us. We begin this busy Wednesday night with what's next after the rare bipartisanship in Washington to release the full Jeffrey Epstein files.

After months of blocking the measure, the president a short time ago signed the veto proof legislation into law.

President Trump posted on Truth Social, saying in part, "I have just signed the bill to release the Epstein files." This

just hours after US Attorney General Pam Bondi suggested investigators have obtained new information about the case, but gave no further details. We spoke to a Jeffrey Epstein survivor who was in Washington yesterday in the chamber

before the president's signature. And in

that vigil when survivors found out together the Senate had passed it. Our

first our chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas leads us off with the latest reporting >> tonight. The bill demanding that the

>> tonight. The bill demanding that the Justice Department release the Epstein files is now law. The president signing it some 24 hours after it was overwhelmingly approved by Congress.

Something he said he would do. Sure, I

would let the let the Senate look at it.

Let anybody look at it, but don't talk about it too much because honestly, I don't want to take it away from us.

>> The Justice Department now has 30 days to make the files public. Tonight, some

Republican senators saying it shouldn't take that long.

>> This shouldn't be a new issue, so they should be ready to go. I'd hope I hope they release them immediately. But even

though the issue has been brewing for weeks with pressure mounting today, Attorney General Pam Bondi would not explain how the process will play out and what, if anything, will be released.

>> We will continue to follow the law with maximum transparency while protecting victims. >> I pressed the AG on whether that means the full files will come out.

>> When you say follow the law, man, attorney general, do you mean that you will provide all the files by 30 days?

We will follow the law. We will continue to to follow the law again while protecting victims but also providing maximum transparency.

>> Lawmakers on both sides watching these next steps very closely.

>> There must be no funny business from Donald Trump. This is not an invitation

Donald Trump. This is not an invitation for Donald Trump to pick and choose his version of the truth.

>> President Trump didn't need Congress to get the Epstein files out. He could have just ordered Bonnie to do it on his own.

Instead, in recent days, he instructed the attorney general to launch a new investigation into Epstein's ties to Democrats. Critics call that an effort

Democrats. Critics call that an effort to deflect from the president's own association with Epstein, noting Bonnie herself had closed the books on the Epstein case earlier this year. At the

time, she said the department had not uncovered evidence that could lead them to investigate anyone else. Today, I

asked her what had changed.

>> What changed uh since then that you launched this investigation? information

that has come for information. Um

there's information that new information, additional information.

>> The attorney general would not say what the new information was.

>> Still a lot of uncertainty here. Our

chief justice correspondent Pier Thomas joins us now. So Pier, bottom line is it still not clear yet when these files will be released.

>> We don't know if the new investigations will lead to a delay in the release of the Epstein files. Lindsay, critics

warned it could be an effort to stall.

But those victims who we saw on Capitol Hill, who were there to witness Congress act, are demanding justice and total transparency.

>> We saw that loud and clear. Pierre

Thomas for us, our thanks to you.

>> We want to go straight to Katherine Fers now. She's our managing editor in

now. She's our managing editor in Washington covering politics. Katherine,

the president just said in a social post that he signed the bill to release the Epstein files. What else did he say in

Epstein files. What else did he say in that post?

>> He did. That's what he says. He says

that he signed the full bill to release uh the Epstein files that just came to his desk uh this afternoon. He does this

Lindsay in a pretty long social media post here. He rails against Democrats.

post here. He rails against Democrats.

He essentially says uh obviously we we know that he launched this investigation that he directed his attorney general earlier this week to launch an investigation into Democrats. He says

because of that investigation and because he signed this bill that maybe more information about them uh will come to light. Again, that's the changing of

to light. Again, that's the changing of the narrative here a bit. He goes on to say that his Department of Justice has already handed over thousands of pages of documents to Congress. What he's

referring to there are documents that DOJ did already hand over more than a month ago to the House Oversight Committee. It's not new documents, if

Committee. It's not new documents, if you will. It's only a fraction of the

you will. It's only a fraction of the documents that the government has in their possession. So the big question

their possession. So the big question here going forward of course is when do we see these documents? Now the ball is

in DOJ's and FBI's court now on this.

Will they post them on their website?

How do we intend to see these? When will

we see these? If we read the bill text closely, it says very specifically that documents can be withheld due to an active investigation. Is that something

active investigation. Is that something we end up hearing from DOJ? Do we

ultimately see all of these files?

There's still a lot of unknown questions, but the reality is it went to Trump's desk. He signed it. So now we

Trump's desk. He signed it. So now we have to see what the administration releases of these files and when they do that. And President Trump also said in a

that. And President Trump also said in a post tonight that he will meet with New York City Mayor elect Zoran Mdani at the White House on Friday. What do we know about that meeting?

>> Yeah, that will be an interesting meeting. We don't have many details

meeting. We don't have many details other than what the president posted on his social media account that that meeting will happen on Friday. We've

reached out to the Mandani campaign to get more information about that. I will

say this is something that Trump did tease over the weekend. He told

reporters that the mayor reached out to him, said he would like to meet with us and that's something we'll work out.

Trump told reporters, "We want to see everything work out well for New York."

So, that would be a pretty remarkable meeting given that Trump endorsed his opponent and hasn't said particularly nice things about Mandami and vice versa. So, how does that meeting go? Are

versa. So, how does that meeting go? Are

cameras brought in? Uh, what time does that happen? We we still are unclear

that happen? We we still are unclear other than the fact that the president has said publicly he wants to see everything work out well for New York.

So what does that mean? I'm sure sure we will find out a couple days from now.

>> It'll be very interesting. Our Katherine

Folders, our thanks to