DOJ Submits to House Rules Committee? | Crime Alert 08.22.25

The Department of Justice has agreed to hand over the Epstein files for another committees review. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alart hourly update breaking crime news Now. I'm Nancy Grace.
Can we manage to get politics out of criminal charges
against Jeffrey Epstein and Delane Maxwell? Will we ever find
out the truth about the Epstein files? Democrats claiming Maxwell's

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prison transfer is a cover up, Lania Trump threatening to
sue Hunter Biden over comments linking her to the now
dead accused sex trafficker. Let's go to Sidney Sumner for more.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
I'm Sidney Sumner. Politicians are demanding answers from Attorney General
Pam Bondi after Glene Maxwell is transferred to a minimum
security prison camp usually off limits for convicted sex offenders
after she meets with Todd Blanche. Democrats on the House
Judiciary Committee say the highly unusual transfer raises substantial concerns

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the administration is attempting to tamper with a crucial witness,
suggesting the move was a way to get Maxwell to
provide false or misleading testimony. The committee now demanding the
DOJ turnover all documents and information related to Blanche's interview
of Maxwell and the decision regarding her transfer. Sources close
to Maxwell claim in her meeting with Todd Blanche she

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contradicted Bill Clinton's insistence Epstein was just an acquaintance. Maxwell
says Clinton and Epstein knew each other. Well. Of course,
those statements may just be employed to make herself more
endearing to Trump for a pardon. As another Tallahassee inmate
claims Maxwell tried to do with Biden once overhearing the
sex offender discussing dirt on Donald Trump while trying to

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appeal to his administration for a pardon. Meanwhile, several lawmaking
committees are challenging the DOJ and FBI's claim that there
is nothing more to release from the Epstein files. The
House Rules Committee has invoked the rule of five to
make the DOJ handen the files over. In a surprise move,
the Justice Department agrees to turnover documents from its investigation

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of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to the House Rules Committee
as soon as Friday, but caution there are many records
and it will take time for the DOJ to produce
all the records and ensure the identification of victims and
any child's sexual abuse material are redacted. In addition to
the Epstein investigation files, the committee also sought records about
communication between President Joe Biden's administration and the DOJ with

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regard to Epstein. Separately, the House Overside Panel issued subpoenas
to former President Bill Clinton, his wife Hillary, and eight
former law enforcement leaders. Former Attorney General Bill Barr, who
personally oversaw the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's death behind bars
at the now shuttered Metropolitan Correctional Center, has already testified

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in front of the House Oversight Committee. Bar may have
been questioned about the missing minute in the eleven hours
of surveillance footage he personally reviewed, and his conclusion that
no one entered Epstein's unit the night of his death.
First Lady Malania Trump has also had a hand in
the ongoing battle, threatening to sue Hunter Biden for his
claim that Jeffrey Epstein introduced the couple. Biden repeated the

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claim first reported in The Daily Beast by Trump biographer
Michael Wolfe. The First Lady's lawyer wrote a letter to
The Beast challenging the content and framing of the article,
leading to the outlet's retraction of the story. Biden then
repeated these claims in an interview with filmmaker Andrew Callahan
earlier this month. Leading to a second warning from Trump.
Malania's lawyer, Alejandro Brito, sent a letter to Biden on

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August sixth, demanding a full retraction of the interview. Brito
demanded that Biden immediately retracts the false, defamatory, disparaging, and
inflammatory statements made about Missus Trump and apologize. Biden has
not yet complied with any of the requirements, saying in
an August fourteenth interview that that's not happening. Trump has

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reportedly moved forward with legal action against him, seeking one
billion dollars in damages to her reputation. The couple has
not revealed who introduced them, but President Trump insists it
was not Jeffrey Epstein. Will his administration finally make good
on their agenda to release their remaining files? More crime
and justice news after this. Authorities in California have filed

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a murder charge against the husband of a thirty nine
year old reading woman who disappeared more than fifteen months ago.
The Shasta County District Attorney's office charged Tyler McCain with
one count of murder with a special circumstance of intent
to prevent testimony, and refiled domestic violence charges against him
from twenty twenty three. Those domestic violence charges were dropped
after Nikki Chang say Lee McCain's disappearance. The Reading Police

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Department said say Lee McCain last spoke to her family
on May seventeenth, twenty twenty four. Her truck was also
reported missing, but police found it a week later in
western Tahama County. According to the Shasta County Sheriff's Office,
evidence of decomposition and blood was found in the vehicle,
and it was determined the material belonged to the missing woman.
Authorities said in April they had reclassified the missing person's

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case as a hum aside. According to the District Attorney's office,
Tyler McCain admitted to a confidential informant that he killed
his wife after a domestic violence incident on May eighteenth,
twenty twenty four. Shasta County District Attorney Stephanie Bridgett acknowledged
the frustrations over the lengthy investigation and the dismissal of
the original domestic violence charges. She noted that without say

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Lee McCain's testimony, those charges would have been difficult to prove,
but the new information changed the dynamic. Bridget said that.
McCain also faces several other charges, including weapons and ammunition charges, forgery,
and for an incident earlier this year in which he
was seen throwing items out of his vehicle and found
to have Nicky McCain's burnt driver's license in his possession.

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McCain is being held without bond and is due in
court for arraignment later today. A reward of up to
thirty thousand dollars remains for information leading to say Lee
McCain's location. Anyone with information is urged to contact the
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I'm Sydney Sumner.