Why Is Speaker Johnson Sending Congress Home with No Vote on the Epstein File Release?

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🗓️ 22 July 2025

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1: 3:05pm- Speaker of the House Mike Johnson announced he will send the House home early for summer recess—in the process preventing a vote to release files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Democrats on the House Rules Committee had planned to force debate on the issue later this week. 3:15pm- While appearing on Fox News with Shannon Bream, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz said he doesn’t believe releasing grand jury testimony from the Epstein case will yield very many answers. In a separate interview, Dershowitz speculated that Epstein may have killed himself “with the help of jailers.” 3:25pm- During a White House meeting with Philippine President Bongbong Marcos in the White House Oval Office, President Donald Trump said he believes it is appropriate for Ghislaine Maxwell to speak with the Department of Justice. 3:40pm- Ozzy Osbourne, the lead singer of Black Sabbath, has died at the age of 76. Earlier this month, Osbourne performed a farewell concert in Birmingham, England. 3:45pm- While speaking with the press from the Oval Office, President Trump discussed the release of declassified documents suggesting the Obama Administration manufactured intelligence for the 2016 Russian interference narrative.

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0:00.0	The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr. with Osperity Private Wealth.
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0:16.3	Welcome to the show. Glad you're here, 855, 8.5, 839, 12, 10 on X at Rich Zoli.
0:21.8	So what I don't understand is they're saying that Jislane Maxwell is going to testify,
0:27.9	but Speaker Mike Johnson is saying he's going to block any votes to put out the Epstein files.
0:36.2	So I'm confused by all this. I really don't quite understand it. And I'm
0:39.1	trying to understand this and figure out, because we don't want to be the party that looks
0:43.2	like we're covering up for Jeffrey Epstein. So I'm hoping we'll get some clarity on that.
0:47.3	And yeah, we'll get clarity and we can understand exactly what's happening. But in the meantime,
0:54.0	uh, if just Lane Maxwell talks to Congress,
0:59.2	great, she wants to talk. She wants to be heard. She wants to say things. She wants to tell her side of the
1:04.7	story. Alan Dershowitz is out there saying there's no way that if Epstein killed himself, he had to
1:09.9	have help. He had to have help. And that's because he couldn't have done it by himself. I mean, yeah, no, that's obvious. I don't, I don't. So then does that count as suicide? If somebody helps you, is that an assisted suicide? Is that still murder or not? I don't know. Try to get a handle on that as well. And then, of course,
1:29.9	there is the question of whether or not we're going to get answers regarding this connection
1:38.1	to the deep state with Comey, Brennan, Clapper, and all these other scumbags who were behind the Russia collusion and the hoax.
1:46.7	And if this is just to distract us from Jeffrey Epstein, not killing himself or killing himself with the help of other people and an assisted suicide,
1:54.9	prison guards are not supposed to help prisoners commit suicide.
1:58.0	I'm just making that point clear.
1:59.8	This is not like a doctor who gives
2:01.8	you a bunch of pills to eat and then, you know, you die. It's got to be more than that.
2:09.8	If the guards are going to help you commit suicide, then that is a, that's a crime. And then if
2:16.5	they've committed a crime, then we need answers on that too.
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