And if the president, President Trump, won't meet his own promise to release the files, at least Congress is trying to do the right thing by doing so. I led the opposition to Donald Trump's first Secretary of labor, who had been the prosecutor who cut the sweetheart deal with Jeffrey Epstein. I was so disturbed with what I knew about that deal in 2017, I tried to convince colleagues that we should not approve this Cabinet secretary. I fell short in that. (00:19–00:28)
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Asserts that Tim Kaine opposed Trump's first Secretary of Labor due to his involvement in a deal with Epstein.
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