Welcome to Meet the Press Now.

I'm Gabe Gutierrez in Washington, where President Trump is now urging House Republicans

to vote yes on a bill that would force his own Justice Department to release all of the Epstein files.

And moments ago, telling reporters he would sign the bill into law if it got to his desk.

The president's willingness to release the files represents a stunning 180.

After months of calling the files a democratic hoax and attacking members of his own party when

they brought up the issue.

In a social media post late last night, the president writing, House Republicans should vote

to release the Epstein files because we have nothing to hide. The president also warning

that Democrats would be implicated after he directed the Justice Department to launch a new

investigation. Today, the president

spoke to reporters about his support for the House bill, but at the same time, he downplayed

the issue while insisting that the Epstein files are a distraction. Do you want to see that past the

Senate? Would you sign that bill if it gets to your desk? I do want to, here's what I

want. We have nothing to do with Epstein, the Democrats do. All of his friends were Democrats. What I just

don't want Epstein to do is detract from the great success of the Republican Party. You'd sign it if it comes through us?

Sure I would.

Let the Senate look at it.

Let anybody look at it.

But don't talk about it too much because honestly, I don't want to take it away from us.

It's really a Democrat problem.

The Democrats were Epstein's friends, all of them.

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