Epstein files latest: Financier asked staff to install hidden video cameras at his Florida home, email exchange shows

We're ending our live coverage of the Epstein files for now.

Earlier, we brought you the news that, buried in the Epstein files was an email showing the disgraced financier asking staff to install hidden cameras in his Florida home.

It comes after Donald Trump's attorney general Pam Bondi clashed repeatedly with critics during a lengthy committee hearing.

We'll be back with any updates and scroll down to catch up in full...

Rapper Cardi B has criticised Trump's administration over the Epstein files.

It comes after the Department of Homeland Security shared a TMZ article about the rapper that claimed she "jokingly threatens to jump ICE".

Sharing the article, Homeland Security said: 

"As long as she doesn't drug and rob our agents, we'll consider that an improvement over her past behaviour."

In 2022, the rapper pleaded guilty to her role in a bar brawl.

In response, Cardi B brings up the Epstein files.

Read her post here...

Police in Norway have searched the homes of former PM Thorbjoern Jagland today, his lawyer says.

It comes as part of an investigation into ties between prominent Norwegians and Jeffrey Epstein.

Images circulated by Norwegian outlets VG, Dagbladet, Dagens Naeringsliv and Aftenposten showed investigators carrying cardboard boxes into Jagland's ​Oslo residence. 

The raid came a day after the Council of Europe, the continent's leading human rights watchdog, which Jagland led from 2009 to 2019, lifted his diplomatic immunity. 

"Oekokrim is currently ​conducting searches of Thorbjoern Jagland's residence and recreational properties. This was expected and is a ‌standard part of an investigation of this nature," Jagland's lawyer Anders Brosveet says in a statement. 

He adds:

"This does not represent any real ⁠change in the substance of the case, but is a ⁠legal consequence of the investigative methods used by the police."

Jagland is now accused of aggravated corruption, his lawyer says.

In Norway, formal charges are brought against someone much later in the ​legal process, sometimes only weeks before a court case begins.

Yesterday, we covered the more than five-hour-long hearing of Pam Bondi clashing repeatedly with Democrats and Republicans in a justice committee hearing.

At the time, our US correspondent James Matthews said the attorney general was performing for her boss - and the US president seems pleased with her performance.

In a post on his own Truth Social network today, Trump says:

"AG Pam Bondi, under intense fire from the Trump Deranged Radical Left Lunatics, was fantastic at yesterday’s Hearing on the never ending saga of Jeffrey Epstein."

In the lengthy post (read it below) Trump doesn't talk about the victims of Epstein, but instead criticises Republican Thomas Massie - who co-sponsored the bill that forced Trump's administration to release the files - and the Democrats.

Republican house speaker Mike Johnson has said he doesn't think it was appropriate for the Department of Justice to track the search histories of politicians reviewing the Epstein files.

The rare rebuke came from one of the most senior Republicans.

Yesterday, photographs emerged during attorney general Pam Bondi's committee hearing showing her holding a document that read: "Jayapal Pramila Search History".

Speaking earlier, Johnson told reporters:

"I think members should obviously have the right to peruse those at their own speed and with their own discretion. I don't think it's appropriate for anybody to be tracking that. I will echo that to anybody involved with the DOJ - and I'm sure it was an oversight." 

Here at Paste BN, our teams have combed through thousands of pages, photos and videos.

Here's what we've found in Epstein files...

Speaking this evening, Donald Trump said he wasn't aware his commerce secretary travelled to Epstein's island with his wife and children.

Howard Lutnick previously said he'd cut ties with Epstein in 2005.

However, earlier this week, Lutnick told US politicians he'd met with Epstein twice after his conviction in 2008 for soliciting prostitution from a child.

Trump was asked if he was aware that Lutnick had travelled to Epstein's island with his wife and children, and the US president said:

"I wasn't aware of it, no. I actually haven't spoken to him about it. In some cases, I guess some people were... I was never there, I guess some people will say I was, I was never there."

The White House has previously expressed its continued support for Lutnick.

A leading Democrat is calling for a watchdog investigation after photos emerged suggesting the US Department of Justice has been tracking the search history of politicians reviewing the files.

Representative Jamie Raskin asked the DoJ's inspector general to look into what he claims is "spying" on members of Congress who this week reviewed less-redacted versions of the files on department-run computers.

Photos taken during attorney general Pam Bondi's committee hearing yesterday showed her holding a document that read: "Jayapal Pramila Search History".

It then listed a series of documents from the Epstein files that were apparently reviewed.

Jayapal called it "totally inappropriate" in a post on social media, adding: 

"Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched. That is outrageous and I intend to pursue this and stop this spying on members."

Raskin demanded the Department of Justice "immediately cease tracking any members' searches".

The Department of Justice previously said that, as part of letting politicians review the less-redacted Epstein files, it "logs all searches made on its systems to protect against the release of victim information."

Our international correspondent John Sparks says the most recent footage (see our previous post) buried in the Epstein files offers a rare glimpse into the disgraced financier's life.

Watch Sparks discussing the footage on The World here...