Overview

• Audio from an Aug. 13 Muscogee County GOP meeting captures Rep. Mike Collins saying President Trump is “in there” in Justice Department materials tied to Jeffrey Epstein.
• Collins said Trump would appear because he reported Epstein to the FBI and barred him from Mar-a-Lago, and he voiced support for making the records public.
• A Collins campaign spokesman defended the comments and said Trump “did nothing wrong.”
• The House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed Epstein’s estate, setting a Sept. 8 deadline for records and a Sept. 19 transcribed interview with former U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta.
• The Justice Department has provided Congress a first heavily redacted packet of files as a New York federal judge declined to unseal grand-jury transcripts, citing victim privacy.