FBI Director Kash Patel offered an explanation on Wednesday to why President Donald Trump’s administration has yet to release the entirety of the Jeffrey Epstein files .

For the second day, Patel is facing a grilling from lawmakers on Capitol Hill about his tenure leading the bureau as he appears before the House Judiciary Committee. It comes after he took questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, in which he was largely pressed about the probe into the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and his agency’s handling of documents related to the late disgraced financier’s case .

As he interrogated Patel, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a ranking member on the committee, pointed out that Patel has previously vowed that he would move to release all docu

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