In her first interview since filing a lawsuit against Speaker Mike Johnson for not swearing in the state’s Democratic Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes explains the basis of the lawsuit to CNN’s Erin Burnett.

It has been weeks since Adelita Grijalva was elected to represent Arizona's 7th congressional district in Congress, but because Grijalva would represent the deciding vote to force a vote on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation files,

Mike Johnson struggled to keep his composure when pressed about swearing in a congresswoman-elect who has vowed to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files. The House Speaker was grilled on This Week Sunday about why Arizona Rep.

Johnson is refusing to swear in the newly elected representative as Democrats step up their protests and Arizona’s attorney general vows legal action.