Thomas Massey

And so I didn't ask any more about it.

Then I saw in the news, as things played out, the story kept shifting.

And I said, well, there's some there there.

And I introduced my resolution, which is a discharge petition.

I would need to get 218 votes on it to force a vote on whether to release the files or not.

I did that in July.

And...

We did a press conference.

The reason I'm telling you all this is my motivation changed part of the way through this.

They said most of it was stuff he had downloaded from the internet, not original, you know, crimes of his.

But even so, right?

Wouldn't that stuff be things that you would investigate, even if he hadn't created it?

If he had got it from a friend or some black, you know, black site on the internet, wouldn't you want to, you know...

The dark web, wouldn't you want to go find out where this stuff comes from?

Did you get a sense that they were doing anything about it?

No.

In fact, this was the final straw for me.

A day or two before I introduced the discharge petition, it was either the attorney general or the FBI director said they were closing all the cases, they were done with Epstein, and there would be no more.

And then, so what happened is after August recess, we came back and Ro Khanna and I held a press conference with the survivors.

And it was to motivate this issue in Washington, D.C.