Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee rejected a request by Democrats yesterday to subpoena four major banks — JPMorgan, BNY, Bank of America and Deutsche Bank — about their connections to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The subpoena would have looked into $1.5 billion worth of suspicious transactions previously flagged by the banks. It comes as the committee’s ranking member, Democratic Congressmember Jamie Raskin, grilled FBI Director Kash Patel yesterday about the Epstein files.

Rep. Jamie Raskin: “Wait, have you released all the stuff that the FBI has seized from Epstein’s house — the computers, the emails, the file cabinets, the documents?”

Kash Patel: “Every” —

Rep. Jamie Raskin: “What about the financial records? Have you released all of that?”

Kash Patel: “Everything the court has allowed us to release” —

Rep. Jamie Raskin: “Which court are you talking about?”

Kash Patel: “Three separate federal courts have come in and said — there are three” —

Rep. Jamie Raskin: “We’re talking about the evidence you’ve got. It’s got nothing to do with what those courts have.”

Kash Patel: “Do you have any idea” —

Rep. Jamie Raskin: “We’re talking about the evidence” —

Kash Patel: — “how the law works?”

Rep. Jamie Raskin: “Wait a minute.”

Kash Patel: “Do you want me to break the law and a federal judge’s order to satisfy your curiosity?”

Rep. Jamie Raskin: “No, I want you to follow your own word, Director Patel. You said up there it was under the direct control of the FBI director. He had the black book.”