Donald Trump's administration urged two judges on Tuesday night to release testimony heard by the grand juries that indicted the late financier Jeffrey Epstein and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell on sex trafficking charges as the president seeks to calm an uproar over his administration's handling of the matter.

Trump told reporters that staff Epstein "stole" from him worked "in the spa" and included Virginia Giuffre, a former attendant at his Palm Beach club.