As to Raskin’s question, the Trump administration has maintained since July that releasing the Epstein files would harm the hundreds of survivors of his abuse, some of whom were teenage girls at the time of their recruitment into his sex trafficking schemes.

Things got heated between Sen. Cory Booker, D-NJ and FBI Director Kash Patel at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, Sept. 16.Patel was appearing following questions about his handling of the investigation into the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and the bureau's

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday backed away from his claim that President Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the Jeffrey Epstein case, The Washington Post reports.

The statements from the speaker come as Democrats and a small number of Republicans are pushing for legislation to compel the release of more files on Jeffrey Epstein.

When the House speaker claimed that the president was an FBI “informant” in the Epstein case, it raised some awkward questions. Then he walked it back.