Trump set to sign Epstein files bill
The Epstein files bill is expected to reach President Trump's desk for his signature on Wednesday. CBS News' Taurean Small reports.
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The Epstein files bill is expected to reach President Trump's desk for his signature on Wednesday. CBS News' Taurean Small reports.
The House and the Senate passed a bill on Tuesday to force the Justice Department to release its files related to Jeffrey Epstein. It comes after months of opposition from President Trump and GOP leadership - and after years of lobbying from some of Epstein's accusers. Caitlin Huey-Burns reports.
The measure compelling the Justice Department to release materials related to Jeffrey Epstein won congressional approval. In a sudden reversal, President Trump told lawmakers they should vote for it.
The House and Senate voted near unanimously to force the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, as dozens of survivors of his abuse gathered at the Capitol. Nikole Killion has more.
Documents suggest Epstein had contacts with the Saudi royal family and traveled to the Kingdom in the last years of his life.
The House on Tuesday voted almost unanimously to pass a bill that would compel the Justice Department to release any documents related to the Epstein investigation. Meanwhile, Senators, through the process of unanimous consent, agreed to send the bill to President Trump's desk for his signature without any amendments once it's received from the House. CBS News' Erica Brown has more.
The Senate has agreed to pass the Epstein files bill as soon as it arrives in the chamber. It comes after no one objected to Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's unanimous consent request to pass the House legislation. Political strategists Terry Sullivan and Kendra Barkoff Lamy join with analysis.
The House on Tuesday passed a bill that would force the Justice Department to release all files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas joins "The Takeout" with her reaction.
The House on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a bill to force the Justice Department to release its trove of files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. CBS News' Caitlin Huey-Burns and Aaron Navarro have the latest.
The House has approved a bill that would require the Justice Department to release files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. CBS News congressional reporter Taurean Small has more.
House Speaker Mike Johnson addressed his colleagues ahead of Tuesday's vote on Rep. Ro Khanna's Epstein Files Transparency Act, slamming Democrats for their push and calling it a "political exercise."
Reps. Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nancy Mace, three of the four Republican members who signed the discharge petition on the Jeffrey Epstein bill, spoke before the debate began on the measure.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that he will support Rep. Ro Khanna's bill on the Epstein files, but slammed Democrats for using the matter as a "political weapon." CBS News' Scott MacFarlane has more.
Jeffrey Epstein survivors and Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie spoke on Capitol Hill ahead of Tuesday's expected House vote to force the full release of the Justice Department's files on the convicted sex offender. CBS News' Taurean Small and Olivia Rinaldi have more.
Virginia Giuffre's brother and his wife called on lawmakers to support a bill to force the full release of the Justice Department's files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Speaking ahead of a House vote on the measure, Sky Roberts said his sister and the survivors are not "political tools for you to use."
Women who survived Jeffrey Epstein's abuse spoke out in Washington, D.C., before House lawmakers take a vote that may compel the Department of Justice to release files on probes of the convicted sex offender. CBS News' Natalie Brand reports.
The vote in the House of Representatives for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files may now pass after President Trump encouraged Republicans to support the bill. CBS News' Scott MacFarlane reports.
Rep. Ro Khanna said "the facts need to come out" as he called for accountability with the House expected to vote Tuesday on a bill compelling the Justice Department to release more of the Epstein files. The congressman also told "CBS Mornings" he was surprised by President Trump's reversal on the issue after months of opposition.
Former Harvard President Larry Summers said Monday he's "deeply ashamed" after messages between him and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were released last week.
President Trump has appeared to change his tune on the release of the Epstein files after members of his party started to go against his effort to oppose their release. CBS News chief Washington analyst Robert Costa joins to examine the divisions within the GOP that have been sparked by the Epstein files and a recent interview Tucker Carlson conducted with Nick Fuentes.
In a reversal, President Trump says House Republicans should vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. House GOP leaders intend to hold a vote Tuesday, sources say.
President Trump has changed his mind and is now calling on the House to vote to force the Justice Department to release all of its files on Jeffrey Epstein. Nancy Cordes has details.
President Trump now says House Republicans should vote yes on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files, saying there's "nothing to hide." Matt Brown, politics reporter for The Associated Press, and Shelby Talcott, White House correspondent at Semafor, join "The Takeout" to examine what may have led the president to reverse course.
President Trump now says Republicans should vote to release all of the files related to the federal investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. CBS News' Olivia Rinaldi and Nikole Killion have the latest on what could happen next.
The House is set to vote Tuesday on legislation that seeks the release of all files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Survivor Danielle Bensky joins "The Takeout" to discuss why she's urging members of Congress to vote yes.