Lawmakers on Capitol Hill today faced renewed pressure to release more information about

the federal investigation into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Women who were sexually abused and trafficked by Epstein spoke publicly, some for the first time,

demanding that federal authorities make the federal case files public.

President Trump also responded to the demands for more documents.

While the women called the push critical, Mr. Trump called it political.

But it's really a Democrat hoax because they're trying to get people to talk about something that's

totally irrelevant to the success that we've had as a nation since I've been president.

Mr. President Donald J. Trump, I am a registered Republican, not that that matters because this is not political.

However, I cordially invite you to the Capitol to meet me in person so you can understand this is not a hoax.

We are real human beings. This is real trauma.

Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardin has been covering all this and joins me now.

So Lisa, bring us up to speed. Where did the efforts to release these files stand?

This was an extraordinary news conference. These survivors, you could see it was meaningful

them to bring their story to the Capitol to lawmakers. They're angry. They want the files released.

There are two tracks about the file release. One is the Department of Justice is sending files

to a House Republican committee. They are going through it. It's under subpoena. Those are the

34,000 pages that we got last night. But the thing about that, Omna, is as we first surmise,

most of those documents really are not relevant to any new information. Some of them are repeat documents. So there are skeptics who say, either Department of Justice may slow roll this or they're not going to give us what we need. So that's the second track, which is a bill from representatives Thomas Massey and Roe-Kana. They would force the Department of Justice

to release all of the information they have from the Epstein files.

That's what these survivors said they want.

Now, the trick is there are two more Republicans needed

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