GOP Lawmaker: Epstein Files 'May Be Embarrassing To The President's Friends'

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) discusses the Epstein files with reporters.

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00:00injustice. Why is that going to the grand jury and asking for the release of this testimony

00:04not enough for you? That's like one of 12 things that we need. Like in our house resolution which

00:12calls up the bill, we ask for a dozen different things and that testimony would be one thing but

00:19that's not a whole lot of stuff. Do you believe there's any reason why this information is not

00:26being released by the administration? I think it's embarrassing to the intelligence community.

00:30It may be embarrassing to the president's friends. I'm not particularly implicating the

00:36president himself. I don't allege him of any wrongdoing but I do believe that there are some

00:44things that need to be brought to the American public's knowledge that have happened that will

00:52be embarrassing. So you think during the August recess momentum is going to build for this?

00:57Oh absolutely. This is not going away. Look, less than 10% of the American people believe that this

01:05shouldn't be released and the legislation that we wrote protects the victims and protects national

01:12security. So there's no reason not to release everything that they've got over there at the

01:18administration.