Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) argued Friday in no uncertain terms on MS NOW that the new release of Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files proves that Attorney General Pam Bondi lied to the American people — and separately threatened both Bondi and another Justice Department official with impeachment.
"So the survivors themselves have illuminated the problem, in their view," anchor Nicolle Wallace said. "With that approach, some of what is in the files are their 302s, their interviews with the FBI. Is it your understanding that the survivors themselves have not been contacted about their own 302s, if they've been released?"
"To my knowledge, some of the survivors have not been contacted. Survivors, lawyers," said Khanna, who co-authored the bill to compel the files' release in the first place. Now, I don't know if they have contacted some of the survivors. As you know, there were over a thousand survivors in this case. I certainly haven't talked to all of them, but at the very least, you would say in a typical process, the Justice Department would say anyone who's a survivor or their lawyers, we want to consult with you before we're going to be releasing these files, and we want to hear your interest."
"I'm less concerned that they haven't talked to Thomas Massie or me, the authors of the bill. I'm less concerned that they haven't talked to the Oversight Committee," he continued. "I'm flabbergasted that they haven't talked to the survivors or the survivors' lawyers. And if they have, they should be transparent about this."
"Look, the reason Pam Bondi has no credibility is six months ago, she stood up there and said, 'There's nothing more to see. There are no more documents. We've released everything,'" said Khanna. "And now, six months later, her deputy is going on TV saying, we're releasing hundreds of thousands of documents. And by the way, there are more documents we will be releasing. Well, what changed? Did she lie back then, or what changed? How did they discover all these documents? She needs to answer. If the answer is, well, now Congress has compelled us and we've gotten judges who ordered the release of documents that previously we were protecting because of DOJ policy, well, she needs to explain that. But what's mind-boggling to me is she's not taking a press conference. She hasn't explained anything. And this isjust eroding trust."
"Massie and I have never made thisagainst Trump or against theDOJ," Khanna added. "We literally have spenthours with the survivors. We just want to see justice. We want to see transparency. I'm less hung up if everything is going to come out today. I just want it all to come out and I want them to be heard. That's really what I want to see happen. And it's disappointing to me that that's not the goal of everyone in this process."
According to The New York Times, Khanna has also warned that the House could hold impeachment hearings for Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, “if it comes to that.”