GOP Rep. James Comer knows that President Trump's Cabinet secretaries are locked in a fierce, epic struggle to get rid of those within the federal agencies they run who are resisting Trump and his policies – and as chairman of the powerful House Oversight Committee, he's lending some help. 

"Whether it's Brooke Rollins at Agriculture or Pam Bondi at the Department of Justice, they're having to fight a lot of internal battles that really haven't made it into the mainstream media yet,” Comer recently told Full Measure. 

One such effort is the freshly launched committee task force, led by Florida GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, whose mission is to unmask holdouts who defied Trump’s first-term directives and blocked the release of thousands of JFK documents.

“Our task force is trying to reach out and question the bureaucrats, figure out which bureaucrat didn't comply with the orders," he said. "The same thing happened with the [Jeffrey] Epstein files when Pam Bondi thought she was releasing the Epstein files. It really wasn't the Epstein files, obviously."

Comer also revealed that even the Trump Justice Department under Bondi is stalling the release of Epstein documents to his committee.

“I heard that 10,000 times over the past two years: ‘Well, we can't turn that over,'" Comer said. "'There's an ongoing investigation.’ We're hearing that with the Epstein files now in this administration,” he said.

Full Measure asked in response: “Who's telling you that?”

The Kentucky lawmaker said: “Well, whoever replies to our letter or subpoena, that's what they say. ‘There's an ongoing investigation.’ They say, ‘We're gonna release it. We're in the process of releasing it. We’ve just gotta make sure nothing is released that compromises the ongoing investigation.'"

Beyond just prying open classified files, Comer has the sprawling Deep State in his sights, accusing it of casting a shadow over government operations and throwing up roadblocks.

“We have a Deep State list, [and] we believe these employees need to be deposed at the very least to see, you know, to answer basic questions like: 'Why did you cover up this?' 'Why did you provide this statement?' 'Why did you sign the letter saying that laptop was Russian disinformation when you knew darn well it was not Russian disinformation?’ We’ll have public hearings, we'll do whatever, but we need to work with the Department of Justice,” he says. 

Comer also said the Justice Department has yet to give the green light to his plans to deeply investigate such topics.

For more on this story, watch "Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson” Sunday. Attkisson's most recent book is "Follow the $cience: How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails."