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House Oversight Prepares Interview With Howard Lutnick Over Epstein Timeline (5/6/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. Over the past few months, the House Oversight
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  Committee that's been overseeing the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein has
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  heard from multiple people about their time with Jeffrey Epstein
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  or their time investigating Jeffrey Epstein, including former President Bill
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  Clinton and his wife Hillary. And now this week we're
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  gonna hear from Howard Lutnik, who is the Secretary of
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  Commerce and who has told us some falsehoods about his
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  relationship with Epstein in the past. And I think the
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  question for Lutnik is the same question that we have
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  for everybody else. If there's nothing to see, if nothing happened,
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  if you weren't really friends, why did you lie about it?
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  Why not just be open and honest. Yeah, the guy
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  was my neighbor, we hung out a few times. We
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  weren't that close. I went to a few dinners with them,
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  and hell yeah, I was invited to his island. But
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  instead of doing that, he decided to lie. And if
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  you don't have anything to hide, why would you be lying.
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  Why not just be honest about your relationship, Because now
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  you're going to be under oath and you're going to
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  be asked the same questions. The problem, though, is that
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  there's no teeth. If nobody's been charged with perjury as
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  of now, why would we think that anyone's ever going
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  to be charged with perjury when it comes to lying
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  to Congress about Jeffrey Epstein. So today we have an
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  article from Fox News and the headline Howard Lutnak forced
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  to face Jeffrey Epstein ties sharing House Oversight hearing. This
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  article was authored by Adam Pack. The House Oversight Committee
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  probe and too late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is turning
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  focus to another high profile Trump administration figure this week.
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  Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnak is voluntarily appearing before the Congressional
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  panel on Wednesday for a transcribed interview regarding his prior
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  relationship with Epstein, who died by suicide in twenty nineteen,
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  allegedly after being indicted on federal sex trafficking charges. And remember,
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  Lutnik created his own problem here when he was asked
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  about Epstein, he lied, and it's because of those lies
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  that he quote unquote is now voluntarily appearing, because if
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  he didn't voluntarily appear, he would have been subpoena, and
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  he knows that. But even so, I don't have any
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  confidence in Congress to do the right thing, and certainly
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  not on this committee. What have they done so far
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  to give us confidence? In my opinion, they haven't done anything.
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  They've been standing in the way, they've been an impediment,
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  and they've been run in cover for the cover up.
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  Lutnick's agreement to speak to the committee came after Representative
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  Nancy Mace pledged to force a vote to subpoena his testimony.
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  Like I was saying, just like Donald Trump signing the
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  bill in the first place, didn't want to do it.
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  His hand was forced. It was a veto proof bill,
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  and Donald Trump had no other choice but to sign it,
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  just like Howard Ludnik had no other choice but to
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  appear before Congress. Whether that was voluntary or whether they
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  compel them to do so, the result was going to
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  be the same. It's unclear how many lawmakers will attend. Oh, well,
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  that's shocking. I'm sure that the GOP is just way
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  too busy to get to the bottom of this. Now,
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  if the Clintons were up here again, then you know
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  the GOP members would be showing up with bells on
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  and aw Pauline Luno would be showing up with some
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  of her interdimensional beings. These people don't take this serious,
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  and that's one of the biggest problems I have because
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  what it's turned into is a political football, and I
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  don't think members of either party really care about what happened.
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  I think that both parties only care about what they
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  can gain from this. And let's be real, all of
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  these politicians knew about this for years. This isn't new
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  to them. They're only making pretend that they're outraged, making
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  pretend that this is new. The problem is, you know
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  about it now, so if they don't act, then it's
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  going to be a big problem for them come election season.
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  But don't think for a minute any of these people
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  care about you or the survivors. They don't. And that
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  goes for Robert Garcia and for James Comer. It's unclear
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  how many lawmakers will attend, as a House of Representatives
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  is in a district work period known as a recess.
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  This week, Still, Lutnik could face a grilling from House
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  Oversight Committee ranking member Robert Garcia and other Democrats who
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  have accused him of hiding the full scope of his
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  past ties to Epstein. God forbid, they have to work
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  a little overtime in DC as you're strapping your boots
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  on to go work your nineteenth shift this week. The
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  disconnect that we see in DC to the rest of
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  us is unbelievable, and it's not getting any better. The
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  divide is just getting worse. And you have these chaos
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  out there whose only goal is to split the populace,
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  cause riffs, cause political fault lines, and to keep people
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  busy with these petty squabbles. Because when we're busy with
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  petty squabbles, we're not paying attention to what the real
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  evil people in the room the financial sector are really
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  up to. And I always find it ironic that all
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  these people that are out here talking about SIOP this
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  and SIOP that are always the first ones to fall
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  for the SIOP. The Secretary looks forward to addressing any
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  questions on the record when he testifies voluntarily before the
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  House Oversight Committee, A Department of Commerce spokesperson pull Fox
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  News Digital. He looks forward to putting to rest the
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  inaccurate and baseless claims in the media designed to distract
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  from the historic work underway at the Commerce Department historic work?
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  Is it? So everybody out there is just living it up.
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  Everybody's having this great life, and the Commerce Department's doing well. Well,
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  that's weird. I thought we just had to refund all
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  those tariffs. Seems like a kick to the balls. No,
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  so the taxpayer gets nailed twice. That's cool. Sounds about right.
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  These people spend like drunken pirates, and the rest of
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  us pick up the bill. Lutnik, a billionaire businessman and
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  former CEO of Wall Street firm counter Fitzgerald, said during
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  an interview with The New York Post last year that
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  he broke off ties with Epstein in two thousand and five.
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  The two were formerly next door neighbors in Manhattan's Upper
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  east Side neighborhood. Their town homes shared a wall. Didn't
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  really know him though, what do you mean, guy lived
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  next door? We shared a wall. I saw him in passing,
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  We said hello. That's it. Fast forward to twenty twenty six.
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  We see the emails. Howard Lutnik was on the island. Ah,
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  but I was there for an hour. That's it. One hour.
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  Can I ask you a question, when's the last time
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  you went to lunch? That wasn't work related that lasted
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  less than an hour? And how many of those trips
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  did you take on a yacht where you had to disembark,
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  walk to the property, et cetera. Because it would seem
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  to me, and granted, I'm just some dumbass, that it
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  would take a lot more than an hour to have
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  lunch on an island with Jeffrey Epstein. However, Lutnik, the
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  Commerce Secretary, conceded in a Senate hearing in February that
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  he and his family had a brief lunch with Epstein
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  in twenty twelve at his private Caribbean island, after files
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  dropped showing their contact continued beyond two thousand and five.
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  And look not to be at a dead horse. But
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  why are you lying? If that's all it was, you
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  should have admitted that. I know it's embarrassing, but isn't
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  it more embarrassing for this to continue to just drag
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  on instead of getting out there in front of it
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  and ending it quickly by telling the truth. We left
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  with all my children, with my nannies and my wife altogether.
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  We were on a family vacation, Lutnick told lawmakers. I
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  don't recall why we did it, but we did it.
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  Seems like an odd statement to make. We left with
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  all my children, with my nannies and my wife. Why
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  was there a time when you left those people there
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  with Uncle Jeffy while you went and did whatever it
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  is people like Howard Lutnik do like, what does that
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  even mean? Seems like a weird statement to me to make.
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  I left with all my children, my nannies, and my wife.
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  What do you? Warren Jeff's congressional Democrats seized on the
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  discrepancies and Lutnick's accounts during his testimony before the House
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  Budget Committee in April. Why did you lie about your
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  relationship with Jeffrey Epstein? Representative Madeline Dean asked Lutnik during
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  the tense hearing. Lutnick did not answer the question directly,
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  instead arguing that Dean's inquiry was not relevant to the
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  hearing topic. Well, that's funny considering that we had Pambondi
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  get up there and talk about the doo when she
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  was supposed to be talking about Epstein. But of course,
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  when it comes to Howard Lutnik, let's stay on topic.
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  The Commerce Secretary has maintained that his connection to Epstein
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  was limited. And has not been accused of any wrongdoing,
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  no besides lying to the American public as somebody who's
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  representing the American public in the administration. I remember a
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  time when that was enough to get you fired. But
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  now we live in the age of scandal, where everything's
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  cool and every scumbag on the planet can run for office.
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  Just take a look down in Florida. What's going on,
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  James fishback fucking Dan Blazarian. These dudes shouldn't pass the
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  test to be the local dogcatcher, never mind people running
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  for high office. House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer praised
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  Lutnik's decision to appear for a transcribed interview. I commend
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  his demonstrated commitment to transparency and appreciate his willingness to
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  engage with the committee, Comer said in a March statement
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  the Fox News Digital I look forward to his testimony.
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  Well so do I, and I think all of us do.
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  I wonder what he's going to say, and I wonder
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  if he's going to tell the truth. Lutnik is not
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  the only Trump administration official to face questions this month
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  as part of the committee. As Epstein probe, Former Attorney
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  General Paum Bondi is scheduled to sit for a transcribed
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  interview on May twenty ninth, after being subpoenaed by Comer's Committee.
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  Democrats and a handful of Republicans had vowed to pursue
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  contemp charges against Bondie over her handling of the Epstein
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  files if she did not agree to testify before the committee.
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  Fox News Digital reached out to the White House, but
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  did not hear back before a publication. All right, So
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  that's what we have in store for us this week
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  when it comes to testimony in front of Congress. And
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  thankfully this one's going to be transcribed. The last few
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  have been videos, so I like to have the transcripts
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  that way we can go through them and hopefully they'll
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  be out pretty quickly after his testimony wraps up. So
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  once we have that transcript, we'll get it added to
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  the catalog and we'll keep it moving. As far as
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  this one, well, that's going to do it. All the
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  information that goes with this episode can be found in
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