House Oversight Committee Democrats released photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate on Friday. CBS News' Jake Rosen reports.

House Democrats on the Oversight Committee have released 19 photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate, showing figures such as former President Bill Clinton, President Donald Trump, Bill Gates, and others. The release comes as the Justice Department faces a deadline to publicize all documents related to Epstein's investigation, with Republicans criticizing the selective nature of the disclosure and noting that 95,000 photos were provided to the committee.

The photos do not depict any of the men engaged in wrongdoing, though some include intimate objects possibly used by Epstein with victims. The release and investigation process has become highly politicized, with House Democrats accusing the Justice Department of a potential cover-up and Republicans asserting that no evidence of misconduct has been found. Further document releases are expected as the deadline approaches.

Trump, Clinton, Bannon appear in Epstein photos released by House Dems

We began with breaking news. A new batch of photos from the Epstein estate were just released. It comes as we get closer to the deadline for the Justice Department to publicize all documents related to the convicted sex offenders investigation. CBS News Justice reporter Jake Rosen joins us live right now and Jake. What do we know about these new photos? Good morning Mugo. What we do know is that there were 19 photos released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. Republicans on that committee have called out releasing only these 19 pictures because there are potentially thousands 95,000 they say that actually are the full trove of photos that were released from Jeffrey Epstein's estate to this Oversight Committee, which has been conducting its own review separate of that of the Justice Department of what happened in terms of the Justice Department's actions relating to Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator, Glazine Maxwell. These photos show as you can see them on your screen. From former President Bill Clinton, President Trump, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, filmmaker Woody Allen, in addition to Bill Gates, Richard Branson and Prince Andrew. These are just selected photos we should point out to our audience, but you can see obviously the very close relationships between Epstein and some of these very powerful men who were very much in positions of power at the peak of whatever role they had specifically President Trump, who's obviously in office now. And Republicans, we should just point out on this committee said that they received over 95,000 photos and Democrats released just a handful that the hoax against President Trump has been completely debunked, they say, and nothing in the documents we received shows any wrongdoing. We should also point out to our audience. There's been there in these photos, which includes some intimate objects and photos of of things that Jeffrey Epstein may have used with his victims. There's nothing showing any of these men doing anything wrong, but a reminder of just the political kind of worldview that we're in. The political kind of world that we're in, where now even this investigation, which is supposed to be oversight of the Justice Department is now getting further politicized. Yes, so Jake, why release these photos now? Well, because in a week from today is that deadline after President Trump and Congress moved forward with this bill to force the Justice Department to release any and all files it has, whether it's grand jury evidence, investigative material, photos, witness interviews, all redacted obviously to protect victims, identities and their names. Mugo, but at the same time, this pressure cooker is really only going to increase into the next week because there are going to be, if not tens of thousands, potentially more than that of documents from investigations in New York and Florida into Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. And at the same time, there's also this concurrent investigation. We should also remind our audience that the Justice Department has also successfully moved to unseal some documents that might not be part of this initial release, but there are more documents on the way. We saw earlier this week, Mugo, just to show how really precarious this is, is that House Democrats were accusing the Justice Department ahead of any release of documents of potentially a cover-up asking for the Inspector General of the Justice Department to review all of these files somehow. First, to make sure that these documents haven't been moved or potentially augmented in some kind of way before their release to protect President Trump and any of these powerful men who are in these photos. Have we heard from the President Trump about these newly released photos or even some of the men in the photos? Yeah, and and we we have not in terms of this specific release, but President Trump has continued to say that he broke ties with Jeffrey Epstein over a dispute about the Mar-a-Lago estate that President Trump and the club that President Trump runs down in Florida. We've heard a number of people who President Trump has accused of wrongdoing relating to Epstein, but mostly Democrats saying that they are innocent and that they were not aware of these wrongdoings by Epstein and Glazine Maxwell at the time of their actions. But at the same time, these new photos could certainly force people like Bill Gates, former President Bill Clinton, to respond again to this. But again, these are just 19 photos out of 95,000 House Republicans on this committee are saying we'll see what the rest of these thousands of pictures potentially would show if anything. OK, Jake Rosen, thank you so much for your time today.

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