STAKEOUT: Howard Lutnick testifies to House about Epstein

[0:03] Yes. [0:06] Go ahead. [0:08] Hold on. [0:18] Not down here. [0:19] It's . [0:21] Yeah. [0:22] Yeah. [0:23] Yeah. [0:24] Yeah. [0:25] Yeah. [0:26] Yeah. [0:27] Yeah. [0:28] Okay. [0:29] That worked out well. [0:46] Yeah. [0:47] It's okay. [0:48] Oh, obviously, yeah, yeah, the sluts are in ours. [0:52] All right, guys, can you hear me right in front of us? [0:55] Where are they going now? [0:56] So, Mr. Palmer, can I come and rest? [0:58] And then I'll let you guys go. [1:00] It's not to be out in front of the room, so. [1:02] What about my count? [1:04] Why don't we just go over here? [1:06] And wait a second. [1:08] It looks like a purple walk. [1:10] It looks like a purple walk. [1:12] I know it does. [1:14] Okay, and this is a full camera position, guys. [1:18] So, no other TV. [1:26] How are you? [1:28] You look so good. [1:34] Good? [1:36] I got you. [1:38] What's that? [1:40] A little bit, yeah. [1:42] I'm showing you. [1:44] I'm showing you. [1:46] I'm showing you. [1:48] You can be over there. [1:50] You can be over here. [1:52] It's not on the side. [1:54] Sure. [1:56] Hey, Dallas. [1:58] Shoot cups. [2:00] Shoot cups. [2:02] Shoot cups. [2:04] Sure. [2:06] Yeah. [2:08] You're waiting for the chairman. [2:10] Yeah. [2:12] Okay. [2:15] The your- [2:18] I think you need to make sure there's egress here. [2:20] So. [2:22] Careful. [2:23] Let's make egress. [2:24] Yeah. [2:25] Yeah. [2:26] Todd. [2:27] Can I tuck in behind you? [2:28] Everybody go back a little too. [2:30] Yeah. [2:31] Let's see. [2:32] Yeah. [2:33] I'm not going to tie you in. [2:35] Yeah. [2:36] a little bit for the pool. [2:37] Everybody go back a little, please. [2:44] Have to go in the back. [2:46] Yep. [3:11] I mean, that should be good. [3:20] Yeah. [3:21] I don't know. [3:23] Hockey. [3:24] I'm going to watch the hockey playoffs. [3:29] But the playoff is the absolute biggest. [3:34] That's when it gets really... [3:36] Especially when they're in the second half, not the first round. [3:39] It's all pretty good. [3:42] There was some pretty... [3:47] Did he already make his weight? [3:49] Yeah. [3:50] So he went in that side for that. [3:53] I guess I could have stayed for that. [3:57] Transitional. [3:58] Coming through, we're just going to have to... [4:00] Yep. [4:01] Excuse me. [4:02] Back one point. [4:03] We're just getting out of the way so this man in the wheelchair can come by. [4:07] Let her through, guys. [4:11] Let her through, whatever. [4:13] Oh, yeah. [4:14] Happy to do. [4:16] Everybody, it's heavy. [4:19] On a rep, so you're on a rep, so you're on a rep, so you're on a rep, so you're on a rep. [4:22] The chairman's on his way. [4:38] Must be. [4:42] Thank you. [4:43] Thank you. [4:44] Thank you. [4:45] Thank you. [4:46] Thank you. [4:47] Thank you. [4:54] Thank you. [4:57] Why don't you let us have a walk? [4:58] A hallway walk. [4:59] Can we have y'all the same structure? [5:11] Sure. [5:12] Hey, how are you? [5:18] Should I use the mic? [5:20] Should I use the handheld for you? [5:21] Try. [5:22] The audience is coming out. [5:23] It's not working? [5:24] Yep. [5:26] Okay, so we're off. [5:27] Somebody's on the camera. [5:28] Yeah, it's fine. [5:29] Just as long as you're not right in the pathway. [5:32] That's fine. [5:33] I'm gonna get out. [5:35] Okay. [5:36] You want a shower? [5:50] Can you be more flushing than it was a good? [5:52] No, you need more. [5:53] No, you need more. [5:54] Okay, so we're off. [5:55] Out of the camera. [5:56] No, you need a shower. [6:09] It's fine. [6:10] Just as long as you're not right in the pathway. [6:11] That's fine. [6:12] It's fine. [6:13] I'm gonna get out. [6:16] You want a finger? [6:18] It can be more flushing than it is good. [6:20] Hello, thank you all for being here. [7:42] I think we're all here for the Howard Lutnick interview. [7:46] We're looking forward to that. [7:47] And with that, I'll be happy to answer any questions. [7:50] Mr. Chairman, what are your questions about his associations? [7:54] He went to the island with his family, with Mr. Epstein. [7:57] He didn't seem to cut off his communications with Epstein after his conviction. [8:01] Are those some of your questions? [8:02] Yeah, yeah, yeah. [8:04] Those are the questions. [8:05] I think that's the questions everyone would ask. [8:06] I don't know how many more questions there are. [8:09] This is something that many of the members wanted to hear from Lutnick. [8:14] And I'll add he's come in voluntarily. [8:17] So I appreciate that. [8:19] Hopefully we'll have some more answers. [8:21] So we haven't talked to too many people that have admitted they've been on the island. [8:25] So it's my understanding he wasn't on the island very long when he was there with his wife and kids. [8:31] But we'll see what he says. [8:33] But this is pretty extraordinary to bring in a cabinet secretary or something like this. [8:36] Can you characterize that? [8:37] Yeah, and look, I've been on the oversight committee 10 years. [8:41] And there's never been a chairman bring in cabinet secretaries of their own party. [8:47] And this, we have Lutnick coming in today. [8:51] We have Pam Bondi coming in in a couple of weeks. [8:54] So I think people can see that this is a bipartisan investigation. [8:59] We're really sincerely trying to get the truth. [9:01] Our goal is to provide justice for the victims. [9:04] And hopefully today will be helpful. [9:06] I want to talk to you about the other investigation that you're doing against the D.C. police officers. [9:12] God bless you. [9:12] The police department. [9:13] Yes. [9:14] I mean, we know that police officers have been terminated as a result of this, as manipulating crime data. [9:20] Your investigation exposed that D.C. leaders manipulated crime stats. [9:25] What's your thoughts? [9:26] Two questions. [9:27] What's your thoughts about committee Democrats calling this a hoax? [9:31] Secondly, do you expect to receive the Metropolitan Police Department's own internal report and all related documents? [9:39] Yes, we're demanding those documents. [9:42] We hope to get them today, but certainly in the next couple of days. [9:47] And I think that's a big story here. [9:48] We launched the investigation on the oversight committee of the Metro Police Department. [9:52] Because I think we all live in Washington, D.C., and we all see that crime is out of control. [9:58] People were carjacking cars. [10:00] I mean, it was out of control before the president brought in the National Guard. [10:05] And then the Metro Police Department would cite these crime statistics and try to say crime was down. [10:10] I don't think anybody was buying that. [10:12] So we did the investigation. [10:14] We had whistleblowers, Metro Police Department whistleblowers that came in. [10:18] As a result of our investigation that the Democrats criticized every step of the way. [10:24] Some of you may have written that, but this was a partisan racial investigation or whatever. [10:29] At the end of the day, the accountability is that they were lying and 13 police officers have been removed. [10:38] And it's very difficult to remove a government employee. [10:41] So I think this is a victory for accountability. [10:44] And we're starting to see accountability. [10:45] I have to add this. [10:47] Since Blanche and Harmon Dillon have been running the Department of Justice, we're seeing a whole lot more accountability. [10:55] And that's always been a critic, Chad, that criticism of some of the investigations of the oversight committee, especially on conservative networks, that people, you do these investigations and no one's being held accountable. [11:06] We're seeing accountability in Minnesota with the fraud. [11:09] We're seeing accountability with over 500 hospice providers being removed from the rolls in California. [11:16] We're seeing accountability with the Metro Police Department lying about crime statistics. [11:21] And hopefully at the end of this Epstein investigation, we'll see some accountability there. [11:25] Mr. Chair, Mr. Chair. [11:26] Is Secretary Leibniz's credibility undermined here for having said publicly he cut ties in 2005 and that Epstein files show that as recently as 2018, he was in e-mail correspondence with Epstein? [11:39] What I've seen, we're going to ask him all these questions and we'll let the American people judge whether the credibility was damaged or not. [11:46] But at the end of the day, I haven't seen wrongdoing in the e-mail correspondence, but he wasn't 100% truthful with whether or not he had been on the island. [11:58] So we'll see and we'll obviously release the transcripts and everyone can see for themselves. [12:06] What is the transcript of the video, Chad? [12:08] And just to follow up on that, based on his description of events, [12:13] do you have any concerns about the Secretary's conflicting statements and why not do this as a videotaped interview? [12:19] Well, this is, you know, with this transcribe, he's coming in voluntarily, first of all. [12:24] So we didn't video, we don't video people that come in voluntarily. [12:30] We didn't video Ted Waite last week. [12:33] But at the end of the day, the transcript is the most important thing. [12:36] I assume there'll be Democrat members here today. [12:39] If not, there'll be staffers. [12:40] I know there was criticism. [12:41] I read somewhere that a member, too, was complaining that this was on a day when Congress wasn't in session. [12:48] When this was scheduled, we were supposed to be in session. [12:51] This week was flipped with King Charles last week. [12:54] So when we scheduled this, he was supposed to be here. [12:57] So, you know, if you're interested in the investigation, you can come here. [13:02] I missed my son's baseball game last night because I want to be here, obviously, for this interview. [13:06] And hopefully we'll find out some more. [13:08] And as the interview progresses, I'm sure I'll come out and give you an update. [13:12] But thank you all for being here. [13:13] Thank you. [14:07] As long as they're not coming out eminently. [14:22] No, no. [14:23] Okay. [14:24] So, are people expected to come out? [14:51] So, it's possible that we might get something like that. [14:56] And if they do address any cameras, it'll be the full camera. [14:59] The full camera's got to reposition shortly around the corner. [15:03] So, you know, if a member comes out and wants to talk to you, gets around the corner, we're not going to prevent that. [15:08] But we're going to push people to the full camera. [15:10] So, there's no limit. [15:17] So, hopefully, once it gets away, we'll have a better sense. [15:19] So, I'm hoping for early hours. [15:21] So, there's no SBA at any time. [15:28] And in the middle, there might, someone might come out that people don't know. [15:34] Depends on what they want. [15:35] There's not that many members here. [15:39] The full committee is not here. [15:41] Mr. Comer is here, obviously. [15:43] And we expect a few, a handful of Democrats as well. [15:46] But that's it. [15:47] So, because we are recessed. [15:48] Wait, wait, wait. [16:20] I'll let you get me.