Former Attorney General Pam Bondi is defending the Justice Department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files as she appears on Capitol Hill Friday.

Epstein survivors and Democrats have criticized the closed-door format and said they will seek answers about redaction errors that exposed survivor identities.

The Justice Department has not released roughly 2.5 million pages of investigative files on Epstein, and documents that have been published are heavily redacted.

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Former Attorney General Pam Bondi offered a robust defense of the Justice Department’s handling of the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files as she arrived on Capitol Hill Friday morning for a long-sought interview with the GOP-led House Oversight Committee.