CNN Host Asks Ro Khanna If Lawmakers Can Just ‘Control-F’ For Names In Epstein Files

CNN host Kasie Hunt pressed Democratic California Rep. Ro Khanna on Tuesday whether members of Congress can simply “hit Control-F” to search for names in the Epstein files.

Lawmakers and Department of Justice (DOJ) officials said in January that the government has released less than 1% of the files tied to Jeffrey Epstein, even as Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act requiring the full disclosure of all related records. During an appearance on “The Arena,” Hunt asked Khanna how lawmakers are navigating the massive trove of documents.

“Are you able to just, I don’t know, hit Control-F on the keyboard to look for a name?” Hunt asked. “How do you find what you’re looking for?”

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“Well, it’s sad that members of Congress are having to do this,” Khanna told Hunt. “It reminds me of when I was a first-year lawyer doing document review. It’s a cubicle. There are four computers, and then we sit there. We have the document. We have a Bates number. We put in the Bates number.”

Khanna said DOJ have acted professional and courteous but said access remains sharply limited.

“To the Department of Justice‘s credit, the people there are very polite. They‘re very, welcoming. They want to try to help, but we only have one or two hours to do this for 3 million files. And in those two hours, Thomas Massie and I found six men whose names had been redacted, that shouldn‘t have been redacted, that were named as co-conspirators,” Khanna said.