Dan Mitchinson: US correspondent on US House Speaker Mike Johnson calling for the Epstein files to be released

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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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dan Mitchison. Now you as correspondent with us this afternoon, Dan,
the Ipstein files thing is just not going anywhere, is it.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
No? No, the White House would like it to go away.
I mean, they've been trying to shift our attention away
from this for for some time. But now Speaker, Mike
Speaker that has Mike Johnson and a few other Republicans
are breaking with President Trump and they're saying, you know what,
maybe we need to look into this a little bit more.
Maybe we need some more transparency. They want some more
details into the investigation, and maybe want Congress to investigate

(00:31):
the matter. He said, it's a delicate subject and we
got to get everything out there and let the people
decide on this.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Do you think that that, I mean, what do you
think it's in the end?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
I don't know. I was just talking with your producer saying,
I wish I was a psychologist and I had a
maybe that would give me a better insight into the
mindset of what was going on, And she said, I
don't know if it would actually because it really is
hard to figure out what President Trump wants with this.
I mean, now he's saying that Thettorney General has handled
this whole thing well and done a very good job.

(01:03):
But I mean he's also at least depending on how
you take the warding or what he said, you know,
one moment, it's like he would like more transparency. In
the next moment, he'd like this all to go away
and doesn't want, you know, the files to come out.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah. Hey, this video in New York City, crazy video
of a subway station flooding, water pouring out of the
stormwater system, almost like it was going to swallow the train.
But people have actually died in this flash flooding.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah that, We've had a couple of people in New
Jersey that have died because of this. And we've still
got watches and flood warnings and effect through much of
the northeast tonight, so Virginia and Maryland and Washington, d
c IF flights have been canceled across the country there too.
I think New York got two and a half or
three inches of rain in Central Park, which set a
new record for this date. And the video that you're
talking about, I mean is crazy too, You're right, I mean,

(01:52):
the water is just gushing through the subway stations and
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has declared a state of emergency.
And the problem is in New York City. I mean,
the sewer system is so old, it's just constantly overflowing.
It wasn't built for this kind of rain in this
short period of time. So what's happening is it's just
backing up onto the streets and into the homes and
subways and businesses, and there's nothing that they can do

(02:13):
about this until the water recedes and the rain eases up.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
What's happening in Florida with the kim trials.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
You know, there's a joke over here in the media
that all the strange criminal and conspiracy stories come out
of Florida, And I think this is going to be
one that triggers a lot of those those conspiracy theories,
because airports there are going to have to submit these
monthly reports on whether modification activities or they're not going
to get funding from the state. And apparently this has

(02:41):
to do with the Attorney General who says they're trying
to weaponize science and this will prevent or guard the
skies from harmful chemicals. So it's going to prevent the
release of any substances in the atmosphere. That will alter
the weather or the temperature or the climate, or how
intense the sunlight is. And so I mean a lot

(03:02):
of people are saying, well, this just goes back to
prove what we've been saying all along that these contrails
right here from airplanes are actually chemicals that are being
sprayed for who knows what. So they've got a new
department on this. It's launching a portal for the public
to report violations as well on this. So there is
a job that I would not want for a million dollars,
because you know, the loons are going to be coming

(03:24):
out and they're going to get all kinds of reports
on this.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Dan, thank you for that. Dan minsentson US Correspondence. For
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