Dan Mitchinson: US correspondent on US House Speaker Mike Johnson calling for the Epstein files to be released - Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

Mike Johnson, the US Speaker of the House, has called for the Justice Department to release the files of deceased sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein.

President Donald Trump has been facing increased backlash from fellow Republicans for not properly handling the case - which Trump campaigned on getting to the bottom of. 

US correspondent Dan Mitchinson says the White House has been trying to shift public attention away from this case - but the division is making it hard to ignore. 

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