Elie Honig on DoJ Seeking Release of Epstein’s Grand Jury Transcripts: That’s a ‘Minuscule Fraction of the Entire File’

RUSH EXCERPT:
HONIG: "Yeah, Jake, Donald Trump‘s instruction is highly qualified, like you said, pertinent. That leaves a lot of wiggle room. But even just within the actual files, grand jury testimony, the actual transcript of live witnesses who went into a grand jury and testified is going to be a minuscule fraction of the entire file. It would not include phone records, flight records, video surveillance, anything that you seized by a search warrant, anything you got by a wiretap, bank records, financial records. In fact, most witness testimony is not even grand jury testimony. It is far more common for witnesses to testify to prosecutors and FBI agents outside of the grand jury. And if I can, just to set the stage for what Paul is looking at here, the other big qualifier is the judge has to sign off. And if you look at the rule, ordinarily grand jury information is secret. And the rule it‘s called rule six. E lists out certain areas where the judge can make exceptions. I don‘t know that any of those exceptions will apply, and I imagine the document Paul is looking at is DoJ trying to argue that some of those exceptions apply. I guess we‘ll see if it‘s a stretch or if they have a decent argument."