Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche tells “Meet the Press” that the Justice Department’s decision to remove over a dozen photographs on Saturday that had been released as part of the files on Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, “has nothing to do with President [Donald] Trump” and came at the request of victim advocacy groups. | NBC News

NEW: Nick Reiner's attorney Alan Jackson makes a statement following Reiner's first court appearance: "This is a devastating tragedy that has befallen the Reiner family. We all recognize that." "There are very, very complex and serious issues that are associated with this case. Those need to be thoroughly, but very carefully dealt with and examined and looked at and analyzed." "We ask that during this process you allow the system to move forward in the way that it was designed to move forward —