Rep. Mike Johnson called on the Republican-led panel to not release the ethics report, which reportedly includes an interview with a young woman who said Gaetz had sex with her when she was 17 and

Johnson’s comments were a reversal from Wednesday, when he suggested a hands-off approach to the Gaetz report. The “Speaker of the House is not involved in that and can’t be involved in that,” he previously said of the Ethics committee.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Friday he will “strongly request” that the chamber’s ethics committee not release its sexual misconduct report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), falsely claiming it’s “not the way we do things” and dismissing concerns from both parties.