Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kelly O'Donnell in Washington, where we begin with breaking news.

In an era of bitter partisanship, congressional gridlock, and the longest government

shutdown in history, the U.S. House of Representatives is virtually all in agreement on this.

The Justice Department should release the Epstein files. This afternoon, the House passing

legislation aimed at forcing the release of those files. The vote nearly unanimous, 427 to 1. Now, that sends the bill to the

Senate, where Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says he will try to pass it unanimously today.

Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, had said he wanted Majority Leader John Thune to make changes

to the bill. But this afternoon, Thune signaling that's unlikely.

Well, my assumption is that the president sounds like he's prepared to sign it, so I assume

it will move fairly quickly over here.

I think this is that you might achieve, but you have 427 to more votes.

This all comes. If you have 427 to more votes, not good.

This all comes after that abrupt 180 by President Trump in support of the bill,

even as he continues to lash out, calling the issue a hoax and a distraction. And despite saying just a few days ago that he has nothing to hide.

This afternoon, the president berated an ABC news correspondent and threatened to revoke

that network's broadcast license when she asked him about the issue.

Mr. President, why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now?

It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you are a terrible reporter.

As far as the Epstein files is, I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. I threw him out

of my club many years ago because I thought he was a sick pervert. But I guess I turned out to be

right. You just keep going on the Epstein files.

And what the Epstein is, is a Democrat hoax to try and get me,

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