United States House Committee on the Judiciary

Joining me now is Congressman Jamie Raskin.

He's the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, and he, of course, served on the House Select Committee that investigated January 6th.

I'm so grateful you could be here.

We have talked about the committee.

Another blockbuster headline.

And this one comes out of the House Judiciary Committee.

Donald Trump... has been accused, as we know, of sexual predation before.

And now it appears that there are even more accusations against Trump.

This report, which Midas touched, was the first to get out the door, big up to independent media and the folks at Midas.

And I'll read you what Midas' reporting says.

A bombshell new report from House Judiciary Committee Democrats accuses President Donald Trump of participating in Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of young women and alleges that his Justice Department has engaged a sweeping cover-up to protect him from criminal investigation.

Explosive staff report details accounts from 11 women who link Trump to Epstein, including five who have directly accused Trump of rape or sexual assault in circumstances involving the disgraced financier.

Now, the story that I have, and this is going to infuriate everyone because it's once again proving what we all already knew.

But the House Judiciary Committee just released this information regarding New York City's sanctuary district attorneys who are telling all of their people, the prosecutors and so on, when you get an illegal and he's arrested, downgrade the charges, no matter what they're being charged with, so that they cannot be extradited or sent back home.

And so they're trying to skip that whole process.

They've caught the minute.

I want to discuss the major breaking news of this week.

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, led by ranking member Jamie Raskin of Maryland, one of the good guys,

have released a report detailing disturbing allegations involving who else? Donald Trump and his longtime BFF Jeffrey Epstein, his wingman, the two of them predators.

Among them is an allegation from Beatrice Kohl, a Swiss model and former beauty pageant contestant, she told committee staff that Trump raped her in a suite at the Plaza Hotel in New York City in November 1993 when she was 24 years old.

But he got elected even after he was adjudicated civilly responsible for sexually penetrating and attacking E. Jean Carroll in a dressing room in a department store in New York City.

And there are reports in the report that we just released, the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, there are accounts by specific survivors and victims which very much resemble this.

That is, at a kind of public event or public place, cornering someone in something like a dressing room or a hotel room and then sexually attacking them.

And that's precisely what Beatrice Kuehl says in her account of what took place back then.

So, look, the evidence is certainly enough to justify an investigation.

It's overwhelmingly likely it's enough to justify going to a grand jury.

uh to see if a grand jury agrees um but it certainly is not reconcilable in any way with sweeping the whole matter under the rug and i just want to thank these survivors these victims of these terrible events when they were mostly girls some of them were young women but mostly they were girls they were minors for coming forward and hanging tough and saying this really happened and the country's got to pay attention to it so You know, my responsibility as the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee and our responsibility as Democrats on the Judiciary Committee is to make certain that the Department of Justice is not able to sweep this under the rug.

And we also show evidence in this report about how the White House was actually calling all the shots.

Thanks a lot.

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are urging the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to investigate President Trump's relationship with deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The request follows a staff report released Monday.

It contains interviews with material from federal investigative files.

Among the accounts is from a former model and beauty pageant contestant, that alleges Trump raped her in 1993.

The White House denies that, and her claim cannot be independently verified.

Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, tells MSNOW survivors need to be heard.

I just want to thank these survivors, these victims of these terrible events when they were mostly girls, for coming forward and hanging tough and saying this really happened and the country's got to pay attention to it.

You simply gave it to them.

But one more here before we get to some, pardon me, some pretty dark news from the House Judiciary Committee Democrats regarding Donald Trump and, yes, the sex trafficking scandal by his former best friend, the late Jeffrey Epstein, with so much of what is now going on, you know, is really meant to keep you from noticing this.

We'll have that after the break.

But here's something that, yes, actually may be worth worrying about somewhat in this year's elections.

In case you have forgotten, that is exactly where things were at the end of February this year, what the top headlines were when Donald Trump successfully distracted all of us for now nine months with his war on Iran.

Receiving remarkably little attention on Monday was this story.

House Judiciary Committee Democrats on Monday released a staff report laying out what they call, quote, the case against Donald Trump emerging in the Epstein files and DOJ's desperate efforts to cover it up.

With those Democrats now calling for an independent special counsel to investigate the president.

Now, the story that I have, and this is going to infuriate everyone because it's once again proving what we all already knew.

But the House Judiciary Committee just released this information regarding New York City's sanctuary district attorneys who are telling all of their people, the prosecutors and so on, when you get an illegal and he's arrested, downgrade the charges no matter what they're being charged with so that they cannot be extradited or sent back home.

And so they're trying to skip that whole process.

They've caught them in it.