Jeffrey Epstein on March 28, 2017. New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP

As CNN has reported, President Donald Trump said on Friday he had asked the Justice Department to release all grand jury testimony in the Jeffrey Epstein case.

But any such testimony made behind closed doors is a “minuscule fraction of the entire file,” CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig said Friday, shortly after a federal judge was asked to make it public.

“It would not include phone records, flight records, video surveillance, anything that you seized by a search warrant, anything you got by a wiretap, bank records, financial records,” Honig said.

It is typically more common for witnesses to testify outside of a grand jury, to prosecutors or the FBI, for example, Honig explained.

Grand jury information is secret and contains confidential information. The government will have to argue to the judge that it qualifies for an exception to make it public.

Paula Reid, CNN’s chief legal affairs correspondent, said the DOJ is arguing that this is an effort toward transparency and that releasing files on the disgraced financier is in the public interest.

“This is a long shot. The judge is going to have to take some time here, will likely have other stakeholders — victims, accusers — weigh in on the potential impact of this,” Reid said.

Keep in mind: The Justice Department moved to get the testimony released Friday after days of pressure, with the president’s base agitated over his administration’s chaotic handling of files related to the Epstein case.