00:00Secretary Lutnick, as I said in my opening statement, you led people to believe that you had cut off all contact with Jeffrey Epstein after the 2005 encounter you and your wife had in his apartment.
00:19But as I'm sure you know, the Epstein files show a very different record of interaction.
00:26Why did the Epstein files show you coordinating a meeting and planning a visit with Jeffrey Epstein on his private island in December 2012?
00:39Thank you for the question. I'm glad to be here to make it clear that I met Jeffrey Epstein when I moved to a house next door to him in New York.
00:51And I met him then. Over the next 14 years, I met him two other times that I can recall. Two times.
01:01And that is none for six years. So six years later, I met him. And then a year and a half after that, I met him and never again.
01:10Probably the total. And you've seen all of these documents of these millions and millions of documents.
01:17There may be 10 emails connecting me with him, probably about 10 emails connecting me with him over a 14 year period.
01:27I did not have any relationship with him. I barely had anything to do with that person.
01:37Did you, in fact, make the visit to Jeffrey Epstein's private island?
01:42I did have lunch with him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife was with me, as were my four children and nannies.
01:53I had another couple with they were there as well with their children. And we had lunch on the island.
02:02That is true for an hour. And we left with all of my children, with my nannies and my wife all together.
02:09We were on family vacation. We were not apart to suggest there was anything untoward about that in 2012.
02:17I don't I don't recall why we did it, but Mr. Secretary.
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