Pam Bondi testifies behind closed doors in House committee's Epstein probe [View all]

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Pam Bondi testifies behind closed doors in House committee's Epstein probe

By Graham Kates
Updated on: May 29, 2026 / 9:35 AM EDT / CBS News

Fifteen months after saying a list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients was "sitting on my desk right now," and four months after overseeing the release of millions of associated documents, former Attorney General Pam Bondi will testify before a House committee on Friday about her handling of the so-called Epstein files.

Bondi's closed-door interview in the ongoing congressional investigation into Epstein is likely to have a different focus than previous high-profile sit-downs in the probe. The House Oversight Committee has questioned the likes of former President Bill Clinton and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about their relationships with the deceased former sex abuser, but Bondi was not among Epstein's globetrotting network of powerful friends.

Instead, she faced more than a year of withering criticism for her handling of the Department of Justice's Epstein probe, and the rollout of documents after President Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act. ... Bondi made no comment to gathered press and others as she arrived for her transcribed interview Friday morning. As she walked in, Epstein survivors yelled, "tell the truth."

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The committee will release a transcript of the interview, but not a video recording. GOP Rep. James Comer, the Oversight Committee's chairman, said before entering the interview that Bondi will face questions about "what documents remain, why they haven't been turned over."

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