“Speaker Mike Johnson is on the defensive as he prepares to let the House leave early for August recess rather than allow his conference be hammered further by agitation on both sides of the aisle over votes to release the Jeffrey Epstein files,” Politico reports.The Louisiana Republican Wednesday afternoon insisted: “No one in Congress is blocking Epstein documents.”He added: “Republicans are preventing Democrats from making a mockery of the Rules Committee process because we refuse to engage in their political charade. That is what is happening, and nothing more.”