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The Department of Justice released a batch of previously unreleased documents from the Epstein files that include notes from FBI interviews with a woman who says she was assaulted by President Trump when she was a minor. The woman alleges she was assaulted by Trump in the 1980s and that she was also a victim of Epstein. Justice correspondent Ali Rogin reports.
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Geoff Bennett:
The Justice Department released a batch of previously unreleased documents from the Epstein files that include notes from FBI interviews with a woman who says she was assaulted by President Trump as a minor.
In interviews with the FBI, the woman alleged she was assaulted by Mr. Trump in the 1980s and that she was also a victim of Epstein's. The documents were released after multiple news outlets discovered they were missing from the initial mass release of files.
For more, we're joined now by our justice correspondent, Ali Rogin.
So, Ali, tell us more about what's in these documents.
Ali Rogin:
Geoff, these documents are known as 302 files. There's summaries of three interviews the FBI conducted with this accuser in which she alleges that Epstein brought her to meet Trump some time between when she was age 13 and 15.
She details in very graphic terms Trump's sexual, alleged sexual assault against her and how she fought back. She also says she had two additional interactions with Trump, but before she expanded on that any further, she asked if she could go on to another subject.
During the last interview with the accuser, the FBI asked if she would be comfortable sharing more about her contacts with Trump. She said at the time that she didn't know what the point would be when there was a strong possibility nothing could be done about it. And it's unclear, Geoff, if there was any additional follow-up after that last interview.
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