WATCH: Reps. Massie, Taylor Greene and Khanna hold briefing on Epstein files vote, call on Senate to pass bill

The sponsors of a bill to force the Justice Department to publicly release its files on Jeffrey Epstein called on the Senate to “not muck it up.”

Watch the full briefing in the video player above.

“I don’t want the D.C. swamp playing any games. They need to pass this in the Senate and they should not amend it,” said Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., who appeared at a press conference Tuesday with survivors of Epstein’s abuses.

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Khanna also praised Republican colleagues Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene, who helped lead the petition effort to force a vote Tuesday in the House to release the Epstein files.

“Both of them have suffered, as you know, extraordinary political consequences for what they did,” Khanna said.

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