2026年3月18日 / 美国东部时间晚上11:56 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
周三晚间，一群众议院民主党议员在与司法部长帕姆·邦迪就杰弗里·爱泼斯坦调查进行闭门简报会期间愤然离席，此前司法部对爱泼斯坦案件的处理方式引发的紧张局势持续发酵。
这场对峙发生在众议院监督委员会主席、肯塔基州共和党众议员詹姆斯·科默传唤邦迪下个月就爱泼斯坦案作证的一天之后。
邦迪和司法部副部长托德·布兰奇周三前往国会山，与该小组委员会成员会面。不到一小时后，民主党人离开了会议室。
该委员会的最高民主党成员、加利福尼亚州众议员罗伯特·加西亚告诉记者，邦迪没有承诺遵守小组委员会的传票。他称周三的会议是”虚假听证会”，并补充说邦迪没有宣誓，也没有作开场陈述。
“这令人愤慨，令人愤怒，而且这继续掩盖了白宫对爱泼斯坦档案的隐瞒，”加西亚说，”我们不会再容忍这种情况了。”
另一位民主党人、佛罗里达州众议员麦克斯韦尔·弗罗斯特称这是”一场没人能看清发生了什么的虚假证词”，并指出闭门会议中没有美国有线电视新闻网（C-SPAN）的摄像机。
与此同时，科默暗示这次离席是”有预谋的”，是一场”政治游戏”的一部分。
“他们出来时，故作姿态地抱怨她没有回答问题，”他说，”前三个提问的人，他们所做的只是抱怨。”
在听证会期间，科默和宾夕法尼亚州民主党众议员萨默·李之间发生了一场言语争执，两位议员都承认了这一点。
李告诉记者，她问科默是否会强迫邦迪遵守传票，并在她不出现时启动对她的国会藐视程序，”但他没有以成年人的方式回应，反而说我在’抱怨’。”
科默证实了这次互动，称李”只是在抱怨会议形式”。
他后来在社交平台X上写道：”我说民主党人在抱怨并浪费大家的时间，因为他们确实在抱怨并浪费大家的时间。”
当被问及是否会遵守传票时，邦迪在简报会后表示，她”已经明确表示，我会遵守法律”——加西亚称这一回应不够充分。邦迪还批评了民主党人的离席行为。
“一位女议员尖叫道：’因为没有C-SPAN摄像机，所以她不想提问。’然而，他们一整天都在社交媒体上表示，他们有很多问题要问，”邦迪说。
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这一事件凸显了爱泼斯坦问题变得多么尖锐。多年来，司法部对这位声名狼藉的金融家的处理方式一直受到激烈质疑——他直到2019年才因性交易被起诉，但在入狱期间自杀身亡，这引发了公众的强烈关注和阴谋论。
去年年底国会通过一项法律要求司法部公布与爱泼斯坦相关的文件后，该部门近几个月已发布了数百万份关于爱泼斯坦的政府文件——涵盖对他及其定罪同伙吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦的多项联邦调查。
两党成员都批评司法部对文件发布的处理方式，称一些文件被不当扣留或过度编辑。一些性虐待幸存者还表示，他们的个人信息被泄露。司法部为其发布流程进行了辩护，称数百名律师仔细审查了这些文件以检查幸存者的姓名，并在出现编辑错误时已删除相关文件。
民主党人指责邦迪参与了”掩盖行为”。
“我们希望她宣誓作证，因为我们不信任她，”弗罗斯特周三晚间表示。
科默表示，共和党人致力于进行严肃调查，并希望与司法部合作以获取答案。
“这看起来像是掩盖吗？”他说，”司法部长、布兰奇以及司法部的所有高层官员都在这里回答问题，但他们（民主党人）却没有提出任何一个问题。”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/bondi-subpoenaed-to-testify-before-house-committee-over-epstein-files/
House Democrats walk out of tense briefing with Bondi over Epstein files, calling it a “fake hearing”
March 18, 2026 / 11:56 PM EDT / CBS News
A group of House Democrats walked out of a closed-door briefing with Attorney General Pam Bondi on the Jeffrey Epstein probe late Wednesday, as tensions over the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein case continue to simmer.
The faceoff took place one day after the chair of the House Oversight Committee, Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, subpoenaed Bondi to testify about Epstein next month.
Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche went to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to meet with members of the panel. Less than an hour later, Democrats left the room.
The committee’s top Democrat, Rep. Robert Garcia of California, told reporters that Bondi did not commit to honoring the panel’s subpoena. He called Wednesday’s session a “fake hearing,” adding that Bondi wasn’t under oath and did not give an opening statement.
“It’s outrageous, it’s infuriating and it continues this White House coverup of the Epstein files,” Garcia said. “We’re not going to take that anymore.”
Another Democrat, Rep. Maxwell Frost of Florida, called it a “fake deposition where no one can see what’s going on,” noting the lack of C-SPAN cameras for the closed-door meeting.
Comer, meanwhile, suggested the walkout was “premeditated” and part of a “political game.”
“They came out, clutching their pearls, complaining that she wasn’t answering questions,” he said. “The first three people to ask questions, all they did was complain.”
At one point during the hearing, there was a verbal argument between Comer and Democratic Rep. Summer Lee of Pennsylvania, both lawmakers acknowledged.
Lee told reporters she asked Comer if he will compel Bondi to comply with the subpoena and initiate proceedings to hold her in contempt of Congress if she doesn’t show up, and, “instead of answering as an adult, he said that I was ‘bitching.’”
Comer confirmed that interaction, saying Lee “was just complaining about the format.”
He later wrote on X: “I said Democrats were bitching and wasting everyone’s time because Democrats were bitching and wasting everyone’s time.”
Asked whether she will comply with the subpoena, Bondi said after the briefing that she “made it crystal clear, I will follow the law” — a response that Garcia called inadequate. Bondi also criticized Democrats’ walkout.
“One congresswoman screamed: ‘C-SPAN wasn’t in there, so she didn’t want to ask questions.’ Yet all day long, they’ve been on social media saying they had all these questions,” Bondi said.
CBS News has reached out to the Justice Department for comment.
The incident underscored how caustic the Epstein issue has become. The Justice Department has faced years of intense questions over its handling of the disgraced financier, who avoided federal charges for child sex crimes until 2019, when he was indicted for sex trafficking but died by suicide in jail — drawing public fascination and conspiracy theories.
The department has released millions of government files on Epstein in recent months — spanning multiple federal investigations into him and his convicted associate Ghislaine Maxwell — after Congress passed a law late last year requiring it to publish its files on Epstein.
Members of both parties have criticized the Justice Department’s handling of the files’ release, arguing that some files were inappropriately withheld or excessively redacted. Some sexual abuse survivors also say their personal information was exposed. The department has defended its release process, saying that hundreds of lawyers pored through the files to check for survivors’ names and have taken documents down when there are redaction mistakes.
Democrats have accused Bondi of engaging in a “cover up.”
“We want her under oath because we don’t trust her,” Frost said Wednesday evening.
Comer said that Republicans are committed to carrying out a serious investigation and want to work with the Justice Department to get answers.
“Does it look like a cover up?” he said. “The attorney general, Blanche and all the top brass at the DOJ [were] in here to answer questions, and yet, they don’t ask a single question.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/bondi-subpoenaed-to-testify-before-house-committee-over-epstein-files/
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