The Justice Department on Friday released transcripts of interviews its No. 2 official did with Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned former girlfriend as the Trump administration scrambles to present itself as transparent amid a fierce backlash over an earlier refusal to disclose a trove of records from the sex-trafficking case.

The Justice Department has released a transcript of the interview that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche conducted with Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. According to the transcripts released,

According to the interview transcripts and audio released by the Trump DOJ, Ghislaine Maxwell says Jeffrey Epstein “liked being with younger people” because “they gave him ideas, and they were up to date on music.

Maxwell told Blanche that during her time with Epstein -- which ranged from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s -- she never witnessed nor heard of any inappropriate or criminal activity by President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, nor any of the well-known men who associated with Epstein, according to the transcript.

Additional details were released on the Jeffrey Epstein case following the DOJ and FBI reporting that there was no evidence of him running a blackmail scheme.

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi joins MSNBC’s Ali Velshi to discuss how the House Oversight Committee is “feverishly” going through the first batch of Epstein files, noting that the MAGA base “is watching very carefully,

The House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena this month for information from the Justice Department’s investigation into the sex offender and said it planned to publicly release redacted files.