Rep. Pramila Jayapal

And so he knew he was going to lose.

And so he had to...

you know, flip and suddenly say he was supportive of it when he's had a subpoena in front of him this entire time and he hasn't released the file.

So now we have to be on the lookout for all the ways that they try to obfuscate.

They're going to say that there's open investigations.

They can't share information.

They're on this thing of like, we don't you know, we don't want these new victims, which is so insulting to the women who were abused in this whole unbelievably grotesque scandal.

But those are the kinds of things that they're gonna say.

I have a feeling they might redact a lot more than they are actually supposed to.

There are very specific things in the bill about what you cannot redact, including that you can't redact something

because you're afraid of shaming somebody um that is not an appropriate reason to redact it's really only for the victims of uh the epstein abuse scandal so we'll see but um certainly this puts a lot more pressure on the doj and they're trying to make it seem like oh yeah now we're going to comply without ever mentioning that they had a subpoena that they've disregarded for all this time

That's right.

And I think one thing is really important.

You know, the Epstein files and our victory on that really exposed a lot of cracks.

And now you're starting to see it even on something like stock trading, right?

This is a bipartisan issue that I've been part of the leadership on working with Chip Roy, with Seth Magaziner, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Tim Burchett.

And we forced a hearing this week in the House Administration Committee because they're afraid of a discharge petition that Ana Paulina Luna has said she's going to file on our bill.

And so I do think that when people see somebody standing up, whether it's Marjorie Taylor Greene, whoever it is, whether it's this group of bipartisan legislators saying we are going to ban stock trading,

for members of Congress and get that corruption out of the way, it just gives courage to other things to break.

And so not only are they not doing anything good, but they are breaking and perhaps allowing us some room to actually move some things forward that are very important.