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Howard Lutnick: ‘We Were on a Family Vacation’: Lutnick Grilled on Epstein Estate Visit | CNBC TV18 US President Donald Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Tuesday acknowledged that he and his family had lunch on the infamous private island of disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a family vacation. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick today denied that he had ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, after his name appeared on documents in recently released Epstein files. “Of these millions and millions of documents, there may be 10 emails connecting me with him … over a 14-year period,” Lutnick, a former neighbor of Epstein, told a Senate hearing. “I did not have any relationship with him. I barely had anything to do with that person.” Lutnick did confirm having lunch with Epstein, along with his own family and another unnamed family, on Epstein’s island. “And we had lunch on the island, that is true, for an hour. And we left with all of my children, with my nannies and my wife, all together. We were on family vacation,” Lutnick said. “I don’t recall why we did it.” But Lutnick came under criticism from Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat. “The issue is not that you engaged in any wrongdoing in connection with Jeffrey Epstein, but that you totally misrepresented the extent of your relationship with him, to the Congress, to the American people and to the survivors of his despicable criminal and predatory acts,” he told Lutnick. While testifying before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, Lutnick accepted that he had lunch with Epstein during the family vacation. “I did have lunch with him, as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation,” he said. There have been calls in the corridors of Washington that Lutnick should step down as country’s commerce secretary over his ties with deceased paedophile and senators like Democrat Adam Schiff, and Representative Ro Khanna have said that Lutnick should be “out of” President Trump’s Cabinet. Detailing the lunch he had with Epstein, Lutnick told the Senate Committee, “My wife was with me, as were my four children and nannies. I had another couple with – they were there as well, with their children.” #HOWARDLUTNICK #epsteinfiles #Jeffreyepstein #cnbctv18 #usatoday #livenews