1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update breaking crime news Now. I'm Nancy Grace. 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: Can we manage to get politics out of criminal charges 3 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 1: against Jeffrey Epstein and Delane Maxwell? Will we ever find 4 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:21,919 Speaker 1: out the truth about the Epstein files? Democrats claiming Maxwell's 5 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:26,639 Speaker 1: prison transfer is a cover up, Lania Trump threatening to 6 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: sue Hunter Biden over comments linking her to the now 7 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: dead accused sex trafficker. Let's go to Sidney Sumner for more. 8 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:39,520 Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Sumner. Politicians are demanding answers from Attorney General 9 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 2: Pam Bondi after Glene Maxwell is transferred to a minimum 10 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:47,160 Speaker 2: security prison camp usually off limits for convicted sex offenders 11 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 2: after she meets with Todd Blanche. Democrats on the House 12 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 2: Judiciary Committee say the highly unusual transfer raises substantial concerns 13 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 2: the administration is attempting to tamper with a crucial witness, 14 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 2: suggesting the move was a way to get Maxwell to 15 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 2: provide false or misleading testimony. The committee now demanding the 16 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:09,320 Speaker 2: DOJ turnover all documents and information related to Blanche's interview 17 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 2: of Maxwell and the decision regarding her transfer. Sources close 18 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 2: to Maxwell claim in her meeting with Todd Blanche she 19 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 2: contradicted Bill Clinton's insistence Epstein was just an acquaintance. Maxwell 20 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 2: says Clinton and Epstein knew each other. Well. Of course, 21 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 2: those statements may just be employed to make herself more 22 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 2: endearing to Trump for a pardon. As another Tallahassee inmate 23 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 2: claims Maxwell tried to do with Biden once overhearing the 24 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:36,959 Speaker 2: sex offender discussing dirt on Donald Trump while trying to 25 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 2: appeal to his administration for a pardon. Meanwhile, several lawmaking 26 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:44,679 Speaker 2: committees are challenging the DOJ and FBI's claim that there 27 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 2: is nothing more to release from the Epstein files. The 28 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 2: House Rules Committee has invoked the rule of five to 29 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 2: make the DOJ handen the files over. In a surprise move, 30 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 2: the Justice Department agrees to turnover documents from its investigation 31 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 2: of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to the House Rules Committee 32 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 2: as soon as Friday, but caution there are many records 33 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 2: and it will take time for the DOJ to produce 34 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:09,239 Speaker 2: all the records and ensure the identification of victims and 35 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 2: any child's sexual abuse material are redacted. In addition to 36 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:17,239 Speaker 2: the Epstein investigation files, the committee also sought records about 37 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 2: communication between President Joe Biden's administration and the DOJ with 38 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:26,119 Speaker 2: regard to Epstein. Separately, the House Overside Panel issued subpoenas 39 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 2: to former President Bill Clinton, his wife Hillary, and eight 40 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 2: former law enforcement leaders. Former Attorney General Bill Barr, who 41 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 2: personally oversaw the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's death behind bars 42 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 2: at the now shuttered Metropolitan Correctional Center, has already testified 43 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 2: in front of the House Oversight Committee. Bar may have 44 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:47,640 Speaker 2: been questioned about the missing minute in the eleven hours 45 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:51,919 Speaker 2: of surveillance footage he personally reviewed, and his conclusion that 46 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 2: no one entered Epstein's unit the night of his death. 47 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 2: First Lady Malania Trump has also had a hand in 48 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 2: the ongoing battle, threatening to sue Hunter Biden for his 49 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:05,240 Speaker 2: claim that Jeffrey Epstein introduced the couple. Biden repeated the 50 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 2: claim first reported in The Daily Beast by Trump biographer 51 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 2: Michael Wolfe. The First Lady's lawyer wrote a letter to 52 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 2: The Beast challenging the content and framing of the article, 53 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 2: leading to the outlet's retraction of the story. Biden then 54 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 2: repeated these claims in an interview with filmmaker Andrew Callahan 55 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 2: earlier this month. Leading to a second warning from Trump. 56 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 2: Malania's lawyer, Alejandro Brito, sent a letter to Biden on 57 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 2: August sixth, demanding a full retraction of the interview. Brito 58 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 2: demanded that Biden immediately retracts the false, defamatory, disparaging, and 59 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 2: inflammatory statements made about Missus Trump and apologize. Biden has 60 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 2: not yet complied with any of the requirements, saying in 61 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 2: an August fourteenth interview that that's not happening. Trump has 62 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 2: reportedly moved forward with legal action against him, seeking one 63 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 2: billion dollars in damages to her reputation. The couple has 64 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 2: not revealed who introduced them, but President Trump insists it 65 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 2: was not Jeffrey Epstein. Will his administration finally make good 66 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 2: on their agenda to release their remaining files? More crime 67 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 2: and justice news after this. Authorities in California have filed 68 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 2: a murder charge against the husband of a thirty nine 69 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 2: year old reading woman who disappeared more than fifteen months ago. 70 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 2: The Shasta County District Attorney's office charged Tyler McCain with 71 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:25,040 Speaker 2: one count of murder with a special circumstance of intent 72 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 2: to prevent testimony, and refiled domestic violence charges against him 73 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:32,720 Speaker 2: from twenty twenty three. Those domestic violence charges were dropped 74 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 2: after Nikki Chang say Lee McCain's disappearance. The Reading Police 75 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 2: Department said say Lee McCain last spoke to her family 76 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 2: on May seventeenth, twenty twenty four. Her truck was also 77 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 2: reported missing, but police found it a week later in 78 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 2: western Tahama County. According to the Shasta County Sheriff's Office, 79 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 2: evidence of decomposition and blood was found in the vehicle, 80 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 2: and it was determined the material belonged to the missing woman. 81 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 2: Authorities said in April they had reclassified the missing person's 82 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:02,679 Speaker 2: case as a hum aside. According to the District Attorney's office, 83 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 2: Tyler McCain admitted to a confidential informant that he killed 84 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 2: his wife after a domestic violence incident on May eighteenth, 85 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:13,799 Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Shasta County District Attorney Stephanie Bridgett acknowledged 86 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 2: the frustrations over the lengthy investigation and the dismissal of 87 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:20,839 Speaker 2: the original domestic violence charges. She noted that without say 88 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 2: Lee McCain's testimony, those charges would have been difficult to prove, 89 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 2: but the new information changed the dynamic. Bridget said that. 90 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 2: McCain also faces several other charges, including weapons and ammunition charges, forgery, 91 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 2: and for an incident earlier this year in which he 92 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 2: was seen throwing items out of his vehicle and found 93 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:41,600 Speaker 2: to have Nicky McCain's burnt driver's license in his possession. 94 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 2: McCain is being held without bond and is due in 95 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 2: court for arraignment later today. A reward of up to 96 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:50,919 Speaker 2: thirty thousand dollars remains for information leading to say Lee 97 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 2: McCain's location. Anyone with information is urged to contact the 98 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 2: Major Crimes Unit at five three zero two four five 99 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 2: sixty one three five for the latest crime and justice 100 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:03,719 Speaker 2: breaking news. Be sure to follow the Crime Alert hourly 101 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 2: update on your favorite podcast app with this crime Alert, 102 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 2: I'm Sydney Sumner.