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DOJ Submits to House Rules Committee? | Crime Alert 08.22.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update breaking crime news Now. I'm Nancy Grace.
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  Speaker 1: Can we manage to get politics out of criminal charges
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  Speaker 1: against Jeffrey Epstein and Delane Maxwell? Will we ever find
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  Speaker 1: out the truth about the Epstein files? Democrats claiming Maxwell's
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  Speaker 1: prison transfer is a cover up, Lania Trump threatening to
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  Speaker 1: sue Hunter Biden over comments linking her to the now
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  Speaker 1: dead accused sex trafficker. Let's go to Sidney Sumner for more.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Sumner. Politicians are demanding answers from Attorney General
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  Speaker 2: Pam Bondi after Glene Maxwell is transferred to a minimum
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  Speaker 2: security prison camp usually off limits for convicted sex offenders
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  Speaker 2: after she meets with Todd Blanche. Democrats on the House
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  Speaker 2: Judiciary Committee say the highly unusual transfer raises substantial concerns
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  Speaker 2: the administration is attempting to tamper with a crucial witness,
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  Speaker 2: suggesting the move was a way to get Maxwell to
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  Speaker 2: provide false or misleading testimony. The committee now demanding the
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  Speaker 2: DOJ turnover all documents and information related to Blanche's interview
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  Speaker 2: of Maxwell and the decision regarding her transfer. Sources close
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  Speaker 2: to Maxwell claim in her meeting with Todd Blanche she
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  Speaker 2: contradicted Bill Clinton's insistence Epstein was just an acquaintance. Maxwell
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  Speaker 2: says Clinton and Epstein knew each other. Well. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: those statements may just be employed to make herself more
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  Speaker 2: endearing to Trump for a pardon. As another Tallahassee inmate
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  Speaker 2: claims Maxwell tried to do with Biden once overhearing the
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  Speaker 2: sex offender discussing dirt on Donald Trump while trying to
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  Speaker 2: appeal to his administration for a pardon. Meanwhile, several lawmaking
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  Speaker 2: committees are challenging the DOJ and FBI's claim that there
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  Speaker 2: is nothing more to release from the Epstein files. The
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  Speaker 2: House Rules Committee has invoked the rule of five to
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  Speaker 2: make the DOJ handen the files over. In a surprise move,
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  Speaker 2: the Justice Department agrees to turnover documents from its investigation
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  Speaker 2: of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to the House Rules Committee
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  Speaker 2: as soon as Friday, but caution there are many records
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  Speaker 2: and it will take time for the DOJ to produce
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  Speaker 2: all the records and ensure the identification of victims and
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  Speaker 2: any child's sexual abuse material are redacted. In addition to
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  Speaker 2: the Epstein investigation files, the committee also sought records about
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  Speaker 2: communication between President Joe Biden's administration and the DOJ with
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  Speaker 2: regard to Epstein. Separately, the House Overside Panel issued subpoenas
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  Speaker 2: to former President Bill Clinton, his wife Hillary, and eight
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  Speaker 2: former law enforcement leaders. Former Attorney General Bill Barr, who
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  Speaker 2: personally oversaw the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's death behind bars
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  Speaker 2: at the now shuttered Metropolitan Correctional Center, has already testified
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  Speaker 2: in front of the House Oversight Committee. Bar may have
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  Speaker 2: been questioned about the missing minute in the eleven hours
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  Speaker 2: of surveillance footage he personally reviewed, and his conclusion that
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  Speaker 2: no one entered Epstein's unit the night of his death.
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  Speaker 2: First Lady Malania Trump has also had a hand in
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  Speaker 2: the ongoing battle, threatening to sue Hunter Biden for his
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  Speaker 2: claim that Jeffrey Epstein introduced the couple. Biden repeated the
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  Speaker 2: claim first reported in The Daily Beast by Trump biographer
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  Speaker 2: Michael Wolfe. The First Lady's lawyer wrote a letter to
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  Speaker 2: The Beast challenging the content and framing of the article,
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  Speaker 2: leading to the outlet's retraction of the story. Biden then
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  Speaker 2: repeated these claims in an interview with filmmaker Andrew Callahan
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  Speaker 2: earlier this month. Leading to a second warning from Trump.
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  Speaker 2: Malania's lawyer, Alejandro Brito, sent a letter to Biden on
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  Speaker 2: August sixth, demanding a full retraction of the interview. Brito
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  Speaker 2: demanded that Biden immediately retracts the false, defamatory, disparaging, and
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  Speaker 2: inflammatory statements made about Missus Trump and apologize. Biden has
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  Speaker 2: not yet complied with any of the requirements, saying in
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  Speaker 2: an August fourteenth interview that that's not happening. Trump has
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  Speaker 2: reportedly moved forward with legal action against him, seeking one
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  Speaker 2: billion dollars in damages to her reputation. The couple has
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  Speaker 2: not revealed who introduced them, but President Trump insists it
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  Speaker 2: was not Jeffrey Epstein. Will his administration finally make good
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  Speaker 2: on their agenda to release their remaining files? More crime
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  Speaker 2: and justice news after this. Authorities in California have filed
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  Speaker 2: a murder charge against the husband of a thirty nine
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  Speaker 2: year old reading woman who disappeared more than fifteen months ago.
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  Speaker 2: The Shasta County District Attorney's office charged Tyler McCain with
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  Speaker 2: one count of murder with a special circumstance of intent
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  Speaker 2: to prevent testimony, and refiled domestic violence charges against him
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  Speaker 2: from twenty twenty three. Those domestic violence charges were dropped
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  Speaker 2: after Nikki Chang say Lee McCain's disappearance. The Reading Police
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  Speaker 2: Department said say Lee McCain last spoke to her family
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  Speaker 2: on May seventeenth, twenty twenty four. Her truck was also
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  Speaker 2: reported missing, but police found it a week later in
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  Speaker 2: western Tahama County. According to the Shasta County Sheriff's Office,
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  Speaker 2: evidence of decomposition and blood was found in the vehicle,
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  Speaker 2: and it was determined the material belonged to the missing woman.
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  Speaker 2: Authorities said in April they had reclassified the missing person's
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  Speaker 2: case as a hum aside. According to the District Attorney's office,
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  Speaker 2: Tyler McCain admitted to a confidential informant that he killed
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  Speaker 2: his wife after a domestic violence incident on May eighteenth,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Shasta County District Attorney Stephanie Bridgett acknowledged
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  Speaker 2: the frustrations over the lengthy investigation and the dismissal of
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  Speaker 2: the original domestic violence charges. She noted that without say
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  Speaker 2: Lee McCain's testimony, those charges would have been difficult to prove,
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  Speaker 2: but the new information changed the dynamic. Bridget said that.
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  Speaker 2: McCain also faces several other charges, including weapons and ammunition charges, forgery,
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  Speaker 2: and for an incident earlier this year in which he
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  Speaker 2: was seen throwing items out of his vehicle and found
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  Speaker 2: to have Nicky McCain's burnt driver's license in his possession.
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  Speaker 2: McCain is being held without bond and is due in
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  Speaker 2: court for arraignment later today. A reward of up to
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  Speaker 2: thirty thousand dollars remains for information leading to say Lee
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  Speaker 2: McCain's location. Anyone with information is urged to contact the
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  Speaker 2: Major Crimes Unit at five three zero two four five
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sydney Sumner.