'Punches you in the face': Erin Burnett taken aback as Trump ally waylaid by Epstein email

CNN anchor Erin Burnett was visibly taken aback on Thursday night while discussing President Donald Trump's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files with one of the president's former attorneys.

Burnett and Ty Cobb, a former attorney for Trump, discussed the new revelations that surfaced after the House Oversight Committee released tens of thousands of new documents related to the Epstein case. Some of the documents directly contradict statements Trump has made about their relationship, as well as statements Epstein's associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, made to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche during an interview over the summer.

Maxwell told Blanche that she never saw Trump at Epstein's homes, even though one of the newly released emails contradicts that statement. Blanche also never followed up on the assertion during the interview, which Burnett found questionable.

"There are many things inhere to question, but that onejust punches you in the face," Burnett said. "Direct conflict with her statementto Blanche. He did not follow upwith her. And he says today thatthat's because law enforcementdidn't have the materials thatEpstein's estate hid for years.He said it was only just provided toCongress."

"Does that excuse addup?" she asked Cobb.

"No, it doesn't add up at all," Cobb replied, adding that he found it "hard to imagine" those documents weren't recovered during previous searches of Epstein's computers and phones.