Democrats on the House Oversight Committee accused Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick of giving an "embarrassing" and evasive closed-door interview Wednesday about his past contacts with Jeffrey Epstein, with one lawmaker saying President Donald Trump would fire him if he had seen the testimony on video.
"If Donald Trump had seen the video transcript, he would have fired Howard Lutnick," Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., told reporters after Lutnick finished more than four hours of questioning before the committee. The interview was not videotaped, a decision Democrats criticized as a double standard in an investigation that has included video-recorded depositions of other high-profile figures, including former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, a former secretary of state.
