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At today's House Republican leadership press briefing, Speaker Johnson responded to Rep. Thomas Massie's (R-KY) criticisms surrounding the Epstein Files.
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00:00impact our districts and our communities. With that, I'll take a few questions.
00:04Mr. Speaker. Good morning. You say yesterday that you were in lockstep with the administration on the Epstein files,
00:10but it doesn't seem that you're in lockstep with all of your House Republicans.
00:14Thomas Massey, you've just seen in the past hours, this is going to come back and bite Republicans.
00:19What do you say to the schisms inside your conference here?
00:23I say Thomas Massey is the one trying to bite Republicans, okay? I'm not quite certain what his strategy is.
00:28But it's just not him. I mean, otherwise you guys wouldn't be calling off the week tomorrow.
00:32You'd be able to put your rules on the floor. I understand the issue with the Democrats.
00:35Yeah, no, I just explained why. We're not going to play political games with this.
00:38We've all been very clear and transparent.
00:42The House rules resolution sets a good standard and requires all credible evidence to be released,
00:49and that's exactly where the White House is.
00:51As I've said many times, there's no daylight between the White House and the House.
00:58You have to allow the legislation to ripen, and you also have to allow the administration the space to do what it is doing.
01:03The president has said clearly, and he has now ordered his DOJ to do what it is we've all needed DOJ to do for years now,
01:11and that is to get everything released.
01:12So they're in the process of that.
01:14But there's no purpose for Congress to push an administration to do something that they're already doing.
01:19And so this is for political games.
01:24I'm very resolute on this.
01:27We can both call for full transparency and also protect victims.
01:31And if you run roughshod or you do it too quickly, that's not what happens.
01:35But I'm convinced that the DOJ is going to do their job, the administration is going to do their job,
01:40and we'll do our job.
01:41And so we'll see to it.
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