So its actually kind of hilarious.  You are sort of right. He called for the release of the files with Megyn Kelly. And then he went on his podcast or whatever and said he was done talking about Epstein and the ball was in Trumps court. This was after receiving a call from Trump. However the next day Kirk backtracked yet again and said he only meant he was done talking about it for that day. so he caved to pressure from Trump then caved to pressure from his audience because at this point in time (July) even MAGA was wanting the files released. It took some time to get them to fall in line and stop wanting to go after child predators to protect Trump.