The congressman pushing for a House vote in the Jeffrey Epstein case.

Predict a vote will happen.

Republican Congressman Thomas Massie from Kentucky's fourth district, has joined Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna of California and crafting a discharge petition.

If 218 members sign this petition, it would require the House to vote on whether to force the Justice Department to release the Epstein files, which many think could contain a list of people who engaged in crimes similar to the convicted sex offender.

So far, 216 members have signed it.

But Congressman Khanna says Democrats are expected to win two special elections and that the candidates have agreed to sign the petition by the end of September.

He appeared alongside Congressman Massie yesterday on This Week with George Stephanopoulos on ABC.

Who was asked why he thinks President Donald Trump is resisting the release of the files.

I think it's going to be embarrassing to some of the billionaires, some of the donors who are politically connected to his campaign.

I also think Democrats are going to be implicated in this Democrat donors.

And when you get to the billionaire level, a lot of these folks gift to both parties anyway.

They're probably intelligence ties to our CIA and maybe to other foreign intelligence.

The American people would be shocked, I think, to know that our intelligence agency was working with a pedophile who was running a sex trafficking ring.

So these are the reasons I think that they're resisting this.

But we've you know, we can't we can't avoid justice just to avoid embarrassment for some very powerful men.

Congressman James Comer of Kentucky's first district, chairs the House Oversight Committee, which last week released thousands of documents related to Epstein's sex crimes.

He says the document release is proof that Republicans desire transparency.

Today, Democrats on the committee released a sexually suggestive letter to Jeffrey Epstein, purportedly signed by President Donald Trump.

Trump has denied writing the letter and a hand-drawn sketch of a naked woman that surrounds it.