I will say, and I know I speak on behalf of all of us, that the courage that these women show today has motivated us so much more to seek justice, accountability, and transparency.

And we do not care how powerful, how connected,

or what political party those that have victimized

and caused horrific pain and sexual abuse

of these women are, we will seek justice.

Hi again, everyone. It's now 5 o'clock in New York. That happened a few minutes ago on Capitol

Hill. Members of the House Oversight Committee just wrapped up a meeting with a number of victims

of Jeffrey Epstein on that topic. And some Republicans nearly set land speed records in a desperate last-minute sprint out of

Washington five weeks ago, what they think was going to happen when they eventually had to come back.

The controversy they so sorely sought to avoid would just, poof, go away. Well, today, summer

vacation's over on Capitol Hill, and the radioactive political

time bomb of where the Jeffrey Epstein files hasn't dissipated at all. A short time ago,

Republican Congressman Thomas Massey formally filed what is called a discharge petition. Now, that is essentially a

procedural tool that would bypass leadership and force a vote on a measure that would

officially compel the Trump Justice Department to unseal all Epstein-related files in its possession.

Republican Thomas Massey said this move will allow him to begin collecting the 218 signatures

necessary to force a vote on binding legislation to release the Epstein files.

A task he's suggested could be relatively easy given a degree of bipartisan support.

It's worth pressing pause on just uttering that sentence these days.

Because consider how rare and how quaint and old-fashioned the mere idea of anything

bipartisan has become just since Trump came back to office.

Remember in January after Donald Trump single-handedly torpedoed a

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