Hi, everyone. On Tuesday, something pretty extraordinary happened. Every single Republican in Congress,

with the exception of Congressman Clay Higgins of Louisiana, voted to release all of the files

related to the investigation into the child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who ran a sex ring that

reached the highest echelons of power before he died in prison.

As of this recording, on Wednesday, President Trump has said he will sign the bill,

and then it theoretically goes to the Justice Department,

which has to answer the congressional demand and apparently the will of the American people.

Let's be clear.

Even last weekend, none of this could have been predicted.

Up until late Sunday night, Trump had relentlessly lobbied for weeks against transparency on the Epstein files.

This is a Democrat hoax that never ends.

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

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

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

But his repeated attempts to dismiss this whole thing had the opposite effect. The Epstein files stayed in the

headlines. And they became the subject of extraordinary bipartisan agreement. Which begs the

question, why did this happen? And are we actually any closer to learning the full truth

behind Jeffrey Epstein and his crimes.

I'm Alex Wagner, and this is Runaway Country.

Today we're talking about the actual people in the middle of all this, the women who survived

Jeffrey Epstein, and who very much want to know what the Justice Department knows about their

own abuse.

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