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Mike Johnson: “The Justice Department is doing a deliberate job right now.”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

Mike Johnson Addresses Misleading New York Times Headline and Epstein Document Release Efforts

Published July 23, 2025 | Video Starts at 09:59

… haphazard manner so that their names could be unmasked in some way because it would destroy their lives and anybody who's been brought swept up into that. So that's what The Justice Department is doing a deliberate job right now. And our job as the Article one branch is to allow the executive to do that. If it doesn't come to fruition, then we will act. (09:59–10:02)

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Asserts that the Justice Department is handling the Epstein case with care.

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