Chuck Schumer: “2 months ago, nearly every single Member of the House and Senate voted to pass a very simple bill with a very simple…”

“2 months ago, nearly every single Member of the House and Senate voted to pass a very simple bill with a very simple message: release the Epstein files. The legal deadline to release the files was December 19--nearly 50 days ago--and the American people are still waiting for the truth to come out. The December 19 deadline was not a recommendation; it wasn't a suggestion. Releasing the Epstein files is the law, a law that every single Member of this Chamber--Democrat, Republican, Independent--supported as well as every Member of the House, save one. So where are we today, 50 days past the deadline? At best, according to the Department of Justice's own admissions, maybe half of all of the available Epstein files have been released. That means millions of documents which contain the names of coconspirators: financial records, travel logs, letters, emails. The public deserves to see those documents, but the heinous crimes of Jeffrey Epstein and his coconspirators remain shrouded in darkness. These are things the public deserves to see, but they are shrouded in darkness, and whatever materials have been released have often been redacted to an absurd degree. Hundreds of pages have been blotted out to the point that it is just a wall of black ink. That is it--a wall of black ink. Look at this: There are hundreds of pages that look just like this. This is not transparency. This is not what the law requires.”