The Kentucky Republican made his comments in an expansive interview with Tucker Carlson.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) told reporters ahead of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s testimony before the panel that Lutnick had not been “100 percent truthful” about whether he had been on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s island.

Weeks before Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in a decrepit Manhattan jail in 2019, he was found on the floor of his cell, alive but with marks on his neck. Tartaglione — a former police officer then awaiting trial and a possible death sentence in a quadruple murder case — had a different version of events.

Lutnick has denied wrongdoing and has not been accused of criminal conduct related to Epstein.

At the request of the New York Times, a judge unsealed a goodbye note that Jeffrey Epstein's former cellmate says he found after the convicted sex offender's first suicide attempt in July 2019.

Lawmakers said the Justice Department has indicated Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon — a candidate to replace Pam Bondi as attorney general — will represent her in a transcribed interview later this month,