Watch live: Senate Democrats press for Epstein files release

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will speak to reporters Wednesday afternoon about Democrats’ efforts to force the Trump administration to release more files on Jeffrey Epstein.

Schumer will be joined by Sen. Gary Peters (Mich.), the top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, and others who have spoken out about the controversy surrounding the administration’s handling of the files.

Schumer blasted the Department of Justice (DOJ) after it concluded that the convicted sex offender did not have a “client list” and that more documents wouldn’t be released. He also questioned the administration’s decision to interview co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, saying it “stinks of high corruption.”

Early Wednesday, the New York Democrat once again pressed the DOJ to “RELEASE THE FILES.”

“We’re using the obscure ‘Rule of Five’ to force Trump and Bondi to release the Epstein files to us,” he wrote on social platform X.

The press conference is scheduled to begin at noon EDT.

Watch the live video above.