Johnson says that the Republican party is committed to transparency and justice in Epstein

Leaving a meeting of more than two hours between the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and the bipartisan group of members of the House Supervision Committee, President Mike Johnson told reporters on Tuesday that reporters are committed to transparency and justice, despite fractures within his conference on how to address Epstein’s problem.

“There were tears in the room. There was outrage. It was heartbreaking and irritating that justice has been delayed so long,” said Johnson.

The representative of the President of Supervision, James Eat, told journalists that he intends to expand the scope of the investigation after listening to the victims, including the new witnesses.

“We are going to do everything possible to give the American public the transparency they are looking for, as well as provide responsibility in memory of the victims who have already died, as well as those in the room and many others that do not appear,” said Eating, R-Ky.

Previously on the floor of the Chamber of the Chamber on Tuesday, Republican representative Thomas Massie formally presented a high request, a procedure tool to avoid the leadership of the Republican Party and force a vote to a measure to force the Department of Justice to publicly release Jeffrey Epstein’s archives.

Kentucky’s congressman, who co -crocked the resolution with Democratic representative Rue Khanna, can now begin to collect support for the petition, which needs 218 signatures to trigger a vote on the floor. If all Democrats sign the request, only six Republicans are needed to reach the magical number.

Massie told the ABC News Capitol Hill correspondent, Jay O’Brien, on Tuesday that he is fighting for transparency and helps fulfill a campaign promise that President Donald Trump made to the US people to publish the records. Massie said Trump is “180 degrees with his base” on the issue of Epstein and that Trump’s supporters cry for the records of the Department of Justice.

“I think he thinks he can make this disappear telling people that there is nothing here,” Massie told O’Brien.

Massie told O’Brien that he thinks he has the numbers, although Trump pressed the Republicans to move from Epstein.

“That is why I believe that my Republican colleagues will finally sign this high request, at least six of them, because although on this issue, they could be against what the president says, they are actually with the president’s base,” said Massie.

Johnson reiterated his opposition to Massie and Khanna’s high request.

“It does not properly protect innocent victims, and that is a critical component,” said Johnson.

When asked about Massie’s criticism and others who are rejecting a vote to protect President Donald Trump, Johnson described that “obvious nonsense.”

“We are demonstrating here that this is being done, but I will emphasize again, it must be done in the right way,” he told O’Brien.

Johnson argued that the supervision investigation, which has cited the records of the DOJ and the state of Epstein, is the best way because the committee investigators will be launched to the archives and write any identification or confidential information.

“I think he [discharge] The request itself is effectively a debatable point now, because all this is happening, what the supervision committee of the House of Representatives is doing, what they are really gathering is all that was requested in the high request, in addition to even more, “Johnson added.

Massie and Khanna’s bipartisan effort is the last since the members of the Chamber returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, taking up where they left him with the saga that surrounded Epstein’s archives, and with some survivors of Epstein’s sexual abuse and the alleged dealing with meetings with legislators this week.

The survivors are also scheduled to join a press conference on Capitol Hill with Khanna and Massie on Wednesday.

The legislators are going back to work with the same problem they had when they threw home early in July to embark on their recreation.

Before the recess, Johnson blamed the Democrats for creating the controversy of Epstein Archone and echoed declarations made by Trump that if the Department of Justice has credible evidence, they should free it.

The leaders of the Republican Party are now returning with the plans to see a vote on a separate resolution of Epstein, which formally orders the House Supervision Committee of the Chamber of their Chamber to carry out their Epstein investigation.

The Democrats are expected, on the other hand, to resume their pressure campaign, where he left him, in the Chamber Rules Committee, where the disorder led Johnson to send the camera in his summer break a day before.

In July, the rules committee led by the Republican Party, which was working to advance a list of unrelated bills, stopped because the Democrats announced their plan to force a vote of the committee on the bipartisan legislation that would require the release of Epstein’s archives.

“We will continue to press it, so I intend to offer an amendment to the rules of tonight,” representative Jim McGovern, the Classification Democrat in the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives on Tuesday afternoon, told ABC. “They can do all kinds of things to try to provide coverage to their members, but at the end of the day people will see it, and they will launch the files or are not.”

As a dozen Epstein’s survivors meet with legislators this week, McGovern said that his presence should remind Republicans “that there are real victims in this” that “they clearly do not believe that justice has been done in this matter.”

“I think the victims arrive at the hill, it makes it more difficult for Republicans to leave the files, but this will not disappear, and we will continue to press it, and the Republicans can continue voting against our amendments and vote to cover this, but that is their choice,” McGovern said.

Epstein was arrested in July 2019 and accused in a federal accusation of child sexual conspiracy and trafficking. He died in custody a month later, while waiting for the trial. His death was governed a suicide hanging.