Howard Lutnick sweats as he backtracks on Epstein ties: 'You misled the country'

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) turned up the heat on Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Tuesday in a Senate hearing over his past ties with Jeffrey Epstein, who Lutnick falsely claimed last year to have cut all contact with in 2005.

Last year, Lutnick – a finance billionaire and longtime ally of President Donald Trump – told the New York Post that he had cut off all ties with Epstein in 2005. But newly released Epstein files, however, show the two maintained contact through at least 2018, contact...