New Delhi, Nov. 14 -- Speaker Mike Johnson said that the House will hold a vote next week on a bill forcing the Department of Justice to release the full, unclassified Jeffrey Epstein files-despite his own long-standing opposition to the discharge petition that triggered the vote.

"It's a totally pointless exercise," Johnson said on Wednesday (November 12). "It is completely moot now. We might as well just do it. I mean they have 218 signatures, that's fine. We'll do it."

House GOP leaders have not specified when the vote will take place.

The legislation-The Epstein Files Transparency Act-requires Attorney General Pam Bondi to publicly release all unclassified DOJ records related to Jeffrey Epstein.

The bill mandates the DOJ to publis...