ToplineWhile the Trump administration faces demands to release filings on financier Jeffrey Epstein, the Justice Department and U.S. intelligence officials on Monday unveiled records detailing the FBI’s surveillance of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

The Justice Department's July 18 motion to release Epstein grand jury transcripts followed a request Trump made to Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Under intense pressure from President Donald Trump’s own supporters, his administration now is asking a federal court to unseal secret documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s case

Trump is among other prominent figures named in the previously unsealed documents. He was mentioned in a 2016 deposition from Johanna Sjoberg, one of Epstein’s victims, who said the disgraced financier’s plane made an impromptu stop in Atlantic City in the 2000s. Sjoberg said “no” when asked if she’d given Trump a massage.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi told President Donald Trump in May that his name appeared in investigative files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

During Mr. Trump's first term, his labor secretary, Alexander Acosta, resigned following criticism of his handling of Epstein's 2008 plea deal when he was a federal prosecutor in Florida. Epstein served 13 months in a jail work-release program after he was originally accused of sexually abusing dozens of girls and young women.

In response to a public clamor for more information about Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking case, the Trump administration has asked federal courts to unseal grand jury transcripts.While seeking the files’ release allows President Donald Trump to claim that he has nothing to hide about the late,

For a president known for punching back at critics, his move to release more Epstein records is a notable instance of bowing to their demands.

President Donald Trump has ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek court approval to release grand jury testimony linked to Jeffrey Epstein.

US President Donald Trump has said that he had directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to release all relevant grand jury testimony in the case of sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, The Hill reported.

Plus: Trump sued the Wall Street Journal Friday over the newspaper's report that his name was on a 2003 birthday greeting for Epstein.

Before heading to Scotland, President Trump deflected questions about the Jeffrey Epstein case, telling reporters that people should shift their focus to other topics. CBS News' Aaron Navarro has more.