GOP House oversight chair says Lutnick ‘wasn’t 100% truthful’ about Epstein ties as commerce secretary faces grilling
James Comer, the Republican chair of the House oversight committee, told reporters earlier as he entered a closed-door interview with Howard Lutnick that the commerce secretary had in the past not been “100% truthful” about whether he had ever visited Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous private island.
A reminder that Lutnick – the highest-ranking Trump administration official prominently named in the Epstein files, aside from Donald Trump himself – said on a podcast last year that he had decided to “never be in the room” with Epstein following a 2005 tour of the financier’s home in Manhattan that disturbed him and his wife.
But the release of case files on Epstein earlier this year showed that Lutnick had kept in contact with Epstein – even after Epstein’s 2008 conviction in Florida for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl – and met up with him a couple of times in 2011 and 2012.
And under questioning from Democrats during an unrelated hearing earlier this year, Lutnick confirmed he had visited Epstein’s private island with his family in 2012 for lunch.
Comer told reporters ahead of the hearing that he planned to ask Lutnick why his interactions with Epstein spanned years beyond his initial claims.
We’re going to ask him all of these questions, and we’ll let the American people judge whether the credibility was damaged or not.
At the end of the day, I haven’t seen wrongdoing in the email correspondence, but he wasn’t 100% truthful with whether he had been on the island. So we’ll see.
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A reminder that Lutnick – the highest-ranking Trump administration official prominently named in the Epstein files, aside from Donald Trump himself – said on a podcast last year that he had decided to “never be in the room” with Epstein following a 2005 tour of the financier’s home in Manhattan that disturbed him and his wife.
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But the release of case files on Epstein earlier this year showed that Lutnick had kept in contact with Epstein – even after Epstein’s 2008 conviction in Florida for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl – and met up with him a couple of times in 2011 and 2012.
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And under questioning from Democrats during an unrelated hearing earlier this year, Lutnick confirmed he had visited Epstein’s private island with his family in 2012 for lunch.
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Comer told reporters ahead of the hearing that he planned to ask Lutnick why his interactions with Epstein spanned years beyond his initial claims.
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We’re going to ask him all of these questions, and we’ll let the American people judge whether the credibility was damaged or not.
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At the end of the day, I haven’t seen wrongdoing in the email correspondence, but he wasn’t 100% truthful with whether he had been on the island. So we’ll see.
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The FBI has launched a “criminal leak investigation” focused on Atlantic journalist Sarah Fitzpatrick who wrote a detailed story last month about government officials’ alarm over the bureau’s director Kash Patel’s alleged “bouts of excessive drinking” and “unexplained absences”, two people familiar have told MS NOW.
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The move is highly unusual, given that leak investigations are usually focused on government officials – not journalists – who may have disclosed state secrets or classified information.
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Indeed, according to MS NOW’s sources, there is concern among some of the FBI agents assigned to the probe. “They know they are not supposed to do this,” one source said. “But if they don’t go forward, they could lose their jobs. You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t.”
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Fitzpatrick cited over two dozen anonymous sources in her reporting, detailing such alarm among FBI and DOJ officials over Patel’s alcohol consumption and erratic conduct that the FBI director feared his job was in jeopardy. Patel was known to “drink to the point of obvious intoxication”, she reported, and on multiple occasions his security detail had trouble waking him in the morning.
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Patel sued the Atlantic over the story, accusing the magazine of publishing “false and obviously fabricated allegations” and seeking damages for defamation.
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FBI spokesperson Ben Williamson denied the investigation. “This is completely false. No such investigation like this exists and the reporter you mention is not being investigated at all,” he said.
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In a statement to MS NOW, the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeff Goldberg, said:
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We will have further comment when we learn more. If true, this would be an outrageous, illegal, and dangerous attack on the free press and the First Amendment. We will defend Sarah and all of our reporters who are subjected to government harassment simply for pursuing the truth.
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While issuing condolences on social media following Ted Turner’s death, Trump called the late media mogul “one of the Greats of All Time” and a “friend”. However, he wasted no time using his Truth Social missive to slam CNN.
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“[Turner] founded CNN, sold it, and was personally devastated by the Deal because the new ownership took CNN, his ‘baby,’ and destroyed it,” he said. “It became woke, and everything that he is not all about.”
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Trump noted that the “wonderful people” at Paramount Skydance, run by the president’s close ally, David Ellison, might be able to bring back CNN’s “former credibility and glory” after the multibillion deal to acquire Warner Bros Discovery (CNN’s parent company) is finalized.
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Chedrick Greene, a Democratic firefighter and marine veteran, won a special election in Michigan on Tuesday, allowing Democrats to retain control of state senate for the remainder of the year.
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In the race for Michigan’s 35th senate district, a constituency that former vice-president Kamala Harris won by only a single percentage point in 2024, Greene beat Republican Jason Tunney – clinching more than 58% of the vote, compared with Tunney’s 39%, according to local results. The district includes parts of Bay and Saginaw counties, purple areas of the state.
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Donald Trump ultimately won the state in the last election, but Michigan Democrats were hoping to hold on to their narrow majority in the senate ahead of the term-limited governor, Gretchen Whitmer, leaving office in January. Republicans control the state’s lower chamber.
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“We delivered this decisive victory by listening and speaking to the things keeping everyday people up at night – worries about affordability, safety and freedom,” Greene told supporters on Tuesday, as he was declared the winner.
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Hakeem Jeffries, the US House minority leader, heralded Greene’s win on social media. “State Sen.-elect Chedrick Greene’s decisive 19-point overperformance last night ensures Democrats keep control of the Michigan Senate,” Jeffries wrote on X. “A massive defeat for MAGA Republicans!”
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The Senate seat had been vacant since January 2025, when Representative Kristen McDonald Rivet, a Democrat, left the post after she won a seat in the US House.
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Tunney, a former prosecutor, vowed to challenge Greene again when voters return to the polls in November, to elect a representative for the 35th district for a full four-year term.
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“Tonight, we fell short in the special election, but I’m incredibly proud of what this campaign accomplished together,” Tunney said. “This is only the halfway point. As we head into November, the contrast between Chedrick and myself will only become clearer to more and more voters. I’m excited about what lies ahead, and I’m not going anywhere.”
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Ted Turner, the founder of television news network CNN, has died at the age of 87.
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The cause of death was not immediately released, but Turner had revealed that he was suffering from Lewy body dementia, a progressive brain disorder, in 2018.
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Turner became one of the most powerful figures in US media and entertainment, after he launched CNN as the first 24-hour news channel in 1980. The network set a template for worldwide news coverage of wars, trials, revolutions, and human-made and natural disasters.
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In 1996 Time Warner Inc bought his Turner Broadcasting System for $7.5bn, creating the world’s largest communications company, with properties such as HBO, Warner Bros movie studio, Time magazine, CNN, Cartoon Network and Turner Classic Movies.
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According to a news release from Turner Enterprises, the media mogul was surrounded by his family at the time of his death, and is survived by his five children, 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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In response to the blow to Republican legislators in Indiana who lost their primaries to Trump-backed challengers, David Axelrod –a former senior advisor to Barack Obama – noted that “survival” was ultimately the reason why so many GOP lawmakers continue to support the president, regardless of policy disagreements.
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“‘[Trump] maintains the unwavering allegiance of his base and the threat to use it as cudgels against any apostates in primary elections,” Axelrod said. “That’s why following through on his retribution threat against Indiana state senators for having the temerity (and courage) to oppose the extraordinary, mid-decade re-districting he demanded was so essential to the [White House].”
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Former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was the Republican choice to run for Ohio governor following last night’s primary vote.
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The staunch Donald Trump ally will face off against former state health department director Amy Acton, who won the Democratic nomination.
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The other major Republican candidate was Casey Putsch, an internet personality and auto racing engineer, who was defeated decisively.
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Ramaswamy’s victory was celebrated in a Truth Social post by president Trump last night.
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Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog.
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Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick will become the latest of Donald Trump’s cabinet to be questioned over ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein when he sits for a closed-door transcribed interview with the Oversight Committee later today.
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Lutnick has acknowledged visiting Epstein’s private island in 2012 with family members – a trip that contradicted his earlier claim that he had severed ties with Epstein in 2005.
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In March, the Department of Justice briefly deleted and then restored an undated photo of Lutnick and Epstein in an island setting. CBS News reported that Lutnick and Epstein were in business together as recently as 2014.
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Lutnick only agreed to the closed-door Capitol Hill testimony after Democrats on the committee publicly threatened to subpoena Lutnick if he refused to cooperate. Representative Ro Khanna of California told reporters that the votes were there to compel his testimony.
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But getting to this stage has only been possible due to the cooperation of Republicans on the committee. Republican representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina called for Lutnick’s appearance, while James Comer, the Kentucky Republican who chairs the panel, said he had “proactively” agreed to the transcribed interview.
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“I commend his demonstrated commitment to transparency and appreciate his willingness to engage with the Committee,” Comer said in a statement at the time.
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It in unclear how many members will attend the interview but the commerce chief can expect to be probed over when his relationship with Epstein came to an end.
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It comes as Politico reported last week that Mace has complained conversations with Epstein witnesses were taking place while members are out of town or traveling.
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“Some of these are being scheduled when we are not in session, and that makes it more difficult,” she said. “They’re making it the most inconvenient for members of Congress to participate, and that is done on purpose.”
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In other developments:
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A majority of Indiana Republican legislators whose opponents were backed by Donald Trump lost their primaries on Tuesday, giving the president wins in a deep-red state just months after lawmakers there rejected his redistricting plan. Of the seven Trump-endorsed challengers to state senate candidates, at least five won. More here.
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Democratic senator Sherrod Brown and Republican senator Jon Husted won their party’s nominations in Ohio’s primary elections, according to the Associated Press – teeing them up for what is expected to be a high-profile and expensive Senate race in November’s midterm elections. More here.
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Senate Republicans have released a new immigration enforcement funding package that includes a proposed $1bn that could go to security measures related to the $400m ballroom that is part of Donald Trump’s “East Wing modernization project”. More here.
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Marco Rubio argued the US is in a “very fortunate” position as fuel prices continue to climb nationwide amid disruption sparked by the US-Israel war on Iran. With average US fuel prices now approaching $4.50 a gallon – their highest level in four years – the US secretary of state was asked on Tuesday how long Americans should accept them at such levels. Other countries were suffering “big time”, Rubio replied. More here.
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Seven of the leading contenders in California’s unexpectedly dramatic race for governor faced off on the debate stage Tuesday night, with the stakes now higher because ballots are in the mail. Becerra was a top target, as expected, given his steady rise in the polls. More here.
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At a military Mother’s Day event at the White House, Donald Trump used the opportunity to tout his new ballroom project, which the president said now comes with a $400m price tag earlier on social media.
“We’re a little bit ahead of schedule, right on budget, but it’s going to be something great. It’ll be one of the most beautiful buildings of its kind anywhere in the world,” Trump told attendees in the East Room. “Aside from being secure, I think it’s going to be the most beautiful ballroom I’ve ever built. And it’s something that the White House has needed.”
Earlier this week, Senate Republicans released the text of a new immigration enforcement reconciliation package that includes a proposed $1bn that could go to security measures related to the ballroom, part of the president’s “East Wing modernization project”.
And in an internal memo, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav called Ted Turner a visionary and a trailblazer. He wrote to colleagues that, “Ted’s entrepreneurial spirit, creative ambition and willingness to take risks changed the media industry forever.”
He did not just disrupt media. He transformed it.
In 1980, many questioned the logic of launching CNN, the world’s first 24-hour news network. Ted believed the world deserved access to news as it happened, and he acted on that conviction.
CNN fundamentally changed how the world experiences history in real time, and its impact on journalism continues to be felt every day through the work of our teams.
With the launch of TNT in 1988, and through the sports legacy he built across Turner Sports, he helped redefine sports television and created a platform that brought iconic moments into millions of homes. In founding Turner Classic Movies in 1994, Ted ensured that great films and the history of cinema would be preserved and celebrated. TCM stands as a testament to his belief that great storytelling has no expiration date, and that honoring the past is essential to shaping the future.
Zaslav also paid tribute to Turner’s philanthropy and extended his deepst condolences to the late founder’s family.
It is our responsibility to honor and carry forward the legacy he built.
Ted Turner changed our industry forever. I’m grateful for his courage, his imagination and the lasting mark he leaves on Warner Bros. Discovery and the world.
Reacting to CNN founder Ted Turner’s death, fellow media mogul and longtime rival Rupert Murdoch called Turner a “trailblazer” who “transformed the media industry” and “left an indelible mark on our cultural landscape”.
Ted Turner’s vision for 24-hour cable news transformed the media industry and gave viewers everywhere a front seat to witness history unfold. His impact as a trailblazer has left an indelible mark on our cultural landscape. He was a great American and friend.
The two men famously had a long-running and often hostile rivalry, which stemmed from a yachting collision in 1983 that resulted in Turner challenging Murdoch to a fist fight.
The drama intensified when Murdoch launched Fox News in 1996 as a direct, conservative rival to CNN. Turner at one point called Murdoch a “warmonger” and compared him to Adolf Hitler (he later apologized for that choice of words).
In later years it became more of a “friendly rival”, with Turner acknowledging Murdoch’s business acumen, “He’s one of the smartest guys in the media business.”
GOP House oversight chair says Lutnick ‘wasn’t 100% truthful’ about Epstein ties as commerce secretary faces grilling
James Comer, the Republican chair of the House oversight committee, told reporters earlier as he entered a closed-door interview with Howard Lutnick that the commerce secretary had in the past not been “100% truthful” about whether he had ever visited Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous private island.
A reminder that Lutnick – the highest-ranking Trump administration official prominently named in the Epstein files, aside from Donald Trump himself – said on a podcast last year that he had decided to “never be in the room” with Epstein following a 2005 tour of the financier’s home in Manhattan that disturbed him and his wife.
But the release of case files on Epstein earlier this year showed that Lutnick had kept in contact with Epstein – even after Epstein’s 2008 conviction in Florida for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl – and met up with him a couple of times in 2011 and 2012.
And under questioning from Democrats during an unrelated hearing earlier this year, Lutnick confirmed he had visited Epstein’s private island with his family in 2012 for lunch.
Comer told reporters ahead of the hearing that he planned to ask Lutnick why his interactions with Epstein spanned years beyond his initial claims.
We’re going to ask him all of these questions, and we’ll let the American people judge whether the credibility was damaged or not.
At the end of the day, I haven’t seen wrongdoing in the email correspondence, but he wasn’t 100% truthful with whether he had been on the island. So we’ll see.
FBI investigating leaks to journalist who wrote about Kash Patel’s drinking and behavior – report
The FBI has launched a “criminal leak investigation” focused on Atlantic journalist Sarah Fitzpatrick who wrote a detailed story last month about government officials’ alarm over the bureau’s director Kash Patel’s alleged “bouts of excessive drinking” and “unexplained absences”, two people familiar have told MS NOW.
The move is highly unusual, given that leak investigations are usually focused on government officials – not journalists – who may have disclosed state secrets or classified information.
Indeed, according to MS NOW’s sources, there is concern among some of the FBI agents assigned to the probe. “They know they are not supposed to do this,” one source said. “But if they don’t go forward, they could lose their jobs. You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t.”
Fitzpatrick cited over two dozen anonymous sources in her reporting, detailing such alarm among FBI and DOJ officials over Patel’s alcohol consumption and erratic conduct that the FBI director feared his job was in jeopardy. Patel was known to “drink to the point of obvious intoxication”, she reported, and on multiple occasions his security detail had trouble waking him in the morning.
Patel sued the Atlantic over the story, accusing the magazine of publishing “false and obviously fabricated allegations” and seeking damages for defamation.
FBI spokesperson Ben Williamson denied the investigation. “This is completely false. No such investigation like this exists and the reporter you mention is not being investigated at all,” he said.
In a statement to MS NOW, the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeff Goldberg, said:
We will have further comment when we learn more. If true, this would be an outrageous, illegal, and dangerous attack on the free press and the First Amendment. We will defend Sarah and all of our reporters who are subjected to government harassment simply for pursuing the truth.
Trump praises Ted Turner and lambasts CNN: ‘It became woke’
While issuing condolences on social media following Ted Turner’s death, Trump called the late media mogul “one of the Greats of All Time” and a “friend”. However, he wasted no time using his Truth Social missive to slam CNN.
“[Turner] founded CNN, sold it, and was personally devastated by the Deal because the new ownership took CNN, his ‘baby,’ and destroyed it,” he said. “It became woke, and everything that he is not all about.”
Trump noted that the “wonderful people” at Paramount Skydance, run by the president’s close ally, David Ellison, might be able to bring back CNN’s “former credibility and glory” after the multibillion deal to acquire Warner Bros Discovery (CNN’s parent company) is finalized.
Michigan Democrat wins state senate special election
Chedrick Greene, a Democratic firefighter and marine veteran, won a special election in Michigan on Tuesday, allowing Democrats to retain control of state senate for the remainder of the year.
In the race for Michigan’s 35th senate district, a constituency that former vice-president Kamala Harris won by only a single percentage point in 2024, Greene beat Republican Jason Tunney – clinching more than 58% of the vote, compared with Tunney’s 39%, according to local results. The district includes parts of Bay and Saginaw counties, purple areas of the state.
Donald Trump ultimately won the state in the last election, but Michigan Democrats were hoping to hold on to their narrow majority in the senate ahead of the term-limited governor, Gretchen Whitmer, leaving office in January. Republicans control the state’s lower chamber.
“We delivered this decisive victory by listening and speaking to the things keeping everyday people up at night – worries about affordability, safety and freedom,” Greene told supporters on Tuesday, as he was declared the winner.
Hakeem Jeffries, the US House minority leader, heralded Greene’s win on social media. “State Sen.-elect Chedrick Greene’s decisive 19-point overperformance last night ensures Democrats keep control of the Michigan Senate,” Jeffries wrote on X. “A massive defeat for MAGA Republicans!”
The Senate seat had been vacant since January 2025, when Representative Kristen McDonald Rivet, a Democrat, left the post after she won a seat in the US House.
Tunney, a former prosecutor, vowed to challenge Greene again when voters return to the polls in November, to elect a representative for the 35th district for a full four-year term.
“Tonight, we fell short in the special election, but I’m incredibly proud of what this campaign accomplished together,” Tunney said. “This is only the halfway point. As we head into November, the contrast between Chedrick and myself will only become clearer to more and more voters. I’m excited about what lies ahead, and I’m not going anywhere.”
CNN founder and media mogul Ted Turner dies aged 87
Ted Turner, the founder of television news network CNN, has died at the age of 87.
The cause of death was not immediately released, but Turner had revealed that he was suffering from Lewy body dementia, a progressive brain disorder, in 2018.
Turner became one of the most powerful figures in US media and entertainment, after he launched CNN as the first 24-hour news channel in 1980. The network set a template for worldwide news coverage of wars, trials, revolutions, and human-made and natural disasters.
In 1996 Time Warner Inc bought his Turner Broadcasting System for $7.5bn, creating the world’s largest communications company, with properties such as HBO, Warner Bros movie studio, Time magazine, CNN, Cartoon Network and Turner Classic Movies.
According to a news release from Turner Enterprises, the media mogul was surrounded by his family at the time of his death, and is survived by his five children, 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
It’s worth noting, ahead of Howard Lutnick’s closed-door testimony before House oversight committee members today, that the commerce secretary has refused to answer questions about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein from lawmakers during congressional hearings on Capitol Hill over the last month.
In April, Represenative Madeleine Dean, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, asked whether the president expressed “concerns” about the commerce secretary’s relationship with Epstein. Lutnick refused to comment.
Instead, the commerce secretary insisted that he will respond fully to the oversight panel when he faces members.
At the time, Dean also noted that three female cabinet secretaries have been ousted from Trump’s White House: Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem and Lori Chavez-DeRemer. “If President Trump has even a shred of concern about accountability for Jeffrey Epstein’s enablers,” Dean said to Lutnick, “he would fire you too”.
Adria R Walker
When Mississippi lawmakers met in 1861 and voted to secede from the union in an effort to continue enslaving people, they did so in what is now known as the Old Capitol Museum. From 1839 to 1903, lawmakers met at a building that witnessed some of the state’s most racist history.
And now, on 20 May, when members of Mississippi’s house convene for a special session to redraw state supreme court districts, they will do so at the Old Capitol, ostensibly because of renovations in the house chamber.
Jason White, Mississippi’s Republican house speaker, told local outlet WLBT that any special session called between now and January 2027 would be held in the Old Capitol house chamber. The state senate will still use the new capitol building.
The last time lawmakers met at the Old Capitol was in 2009, when they did so to ceremonially acknowledge restoration to the building, which had been damaged during Hurricane Katrina. When lawmakers have needed to meet outside the current capitol building previously, during extensive renovations in the 1980s, they met at the old Central high school building, also in downtown Jackson.
For some, the house’s decision to use the Old Capitol now is troubling.
“I was a little taken aback with the location of the Old State Capitol,” Kabir Karriem, a Democratic state representative who leads the Mississippi’s legislative Black caucus, said. “Even though they said that they were doing some remodeling, the optics of it are horrific for 1.2 million Black folks here in the state of Mississippi.”
Prior to the supreme court’s decision in Louisiana v Callais last week, which severely weakened section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, Mississippi governor Tate Reeves called lawmakers back to Jackson to redraw the state’s three supreme court districts. Many legislators predict that lawmakers will redraw districts to dilute Black voting strength.
Indiana results show that Trump holds ‘unwavering allegiance’ of his base, says former Obama advisor
In response to the blow to Republican legislators in Indiana who lost their primaries to Trump-backed challengers, David Axelrod –a former senior advisor to Barack Obama – noted that “survival” was ultimately the reason why so many GOP lawmakers continue to support the president, regardless of policy disagreements.
“‘[Trump] maintains the unwavering allegiance of his base and the threat to use it as cudgels against any apostates in primary elections,” Axelrod said. “That’s why following through on his retribution threat against Indiana state senators for having the temerity (and courage) to oppose the extraordinary, mid-decade re-districting he demanded was so essential to the [White House].”
A reminder that my colleagues are covering the latest developments out of the Middle East at our dedicated live blog. This includes the reaction to Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to halt Project Freedom – the administration’s operation to “guide” stranded ships through the strait of Hormuz as the naval blockade in the waterway continues.
On Truth Social, Trump expressed optimism that the Iran war “will be at an end” and the strait of Hormuz “open to all” if Iran agrees to the US’s truce proposal.
But he also vowed that the US would resume its bombing campaign “at a much higher level and intensity” than before if Iran doesn’t accept terms that have apparently already been agreed to.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy has announced the strait of Hormuz could reopen following the end of “threats from aggressors”, according to state media.
Donald Trump is in Washington today. He’ll spend the earlier part of the day in meetings, before joining the first lady, Melania Trump, for a military Mother’s Day event in the East Room at 12:30pm ET. We’ll bring you the latest lines as that gets under way.
Former presidential candidate Ramaswamy wins Republican nomination to run for Ohio governor
Former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was the Republican choice to run for Ohio governor following last night’s primary vote.
The staunch Donald Trump ally will face off against former state health department director Amy Acton, who won the Democratic nomination.
The other major Republican candidate was Casey Putsch, an internet personality and auto racing engineer, who was defeated decisively.
Ramaswamy’s victory was celebrated in a Truth Social post by president Trump last night.
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The US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, will appear before the House oversight and reform committee on Wednesday to answer questions over his past ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
Lutnick agreed in March to sit for a transcribed interview with the committee following the justice department’s release of millions of documents related to Epstein, which included documents showing that Lutnick continued correspondence with Epstein after the disgraced financier had been convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor. The session is part of the committee’s broader investigation into Epstein.
“The Secretary looks forward to addressing any questions on the record when he testifies voluntarily before the Oversight Committee,” a commerce department spokesperson said. “He looks forward to putting to rest the inaccurate and baseless claims in the media designed to distract from his historic work underway at the Commerce Department.”
The interview on Wednesday will take place behind closed doors, with a transcript released at a later date, as the committee has done with the previous transcribed interviews.
Washington believes it is close to reaching an agreement with Iran to reopen the strait of Hormuz and end the war, US news outlet Axios reported, citing two US officials.
According to Axios, the two sides are close to agreeing on a “one-page memorandum of understanding to end the war and set a framework for more detailed nuclear negotiations.”
It said the deal would involve Iran committing to a moratorium on nuclear enrichment and the United States agreeing to release billions of dollars of frozen Iranian funds.
Washington is reportedly awaiting a response from Tehran on several key points in the next 48 hours.
“Nothing has been agreed yet, but the sources said this was the closest the parties had been to an agreement since the war began,” Axios said.
Cate Brown
A majority of Indiana Republican legislators whose opponents were backed by Donald Trump lost their primaries on Tuesday, giving the president wins in a deep-red state just months after lawmakers there rejected his redistricting plan.
Of the seven Trump-endorsed challengers to state senate candidates, at least five won.
The vote turned into a statewide referendum on political retribution, and a test of Republican staying power after the party’s state lawmakers resisted Donald Trump’s bruising campaign to pressure them into redrawing the congressional districts.
Seven state senators who voted against Trump’s mid-decade redistricting push faced challengers endorsed by the president, who said that “every one of these people should be ‘primaried’” after the effort failed.
Trump-aligned dark money groups spent upwards of $7m on TV ads in Indiana this year, according to a tally from AdImpact – the majority spent targeting Republicans who allied themselves with Democrats in the December redistricting vote.
Jim Buck, a state senator from Kokomo, lost to a Trump-backed challenger after 18 years in office.
“We’ve never had Washington meddle into our elections like they have this time,” Buck told NPR. “Now I’ve got over $1m against me in one race.”
Commerce chief Howard Lutnick to face Epstein grilling in closed-door interview today
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Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick will become the latest of Donald Trump’s cabinet to be questioned over ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein when he sits for a closed-door transcribed interview with the Oversight Committee later today.
Lutnick has acknowledged visiting Epstein’s private island in 2012 with family members – a trip that contradicted his earlier claim that he had severed ties with Epstein in 2005.
In March, the Department of Justice briefly deleted and then restored an undated photo of Lutnick and Epstein in an island setting. CBS News reported that Lutnick and Epstein were in business together as recently as 2014.
Lutnick only agreed to the closed-door Capitol Hill testimony after Democrats on the committee publicly threatened to subpoena Lutnick if he refused to cooperate. Representative Ro Khanna of California told reporters that the votes were there to compel his testimony.
But getting to this stage has only been possible due to the cooperation of Republicans on the committee. Republican representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina called for Lutnick’s appearance, while James Comer, the Kentucky Republican who chairs the panel, said he had “proactively” agreed to the transcribed interview.
“I commend his demonstrated commitment to transparency and appreciate his willingness to engage with the Committee,” Comer said in a statement at the time.
It in unclear how many members will attend the interview but the commerce chief can expect to be probed over when his relationship with Epstein came to an end.
It comes as Politico reported last week that Mace has complained conversations with Epstein witnesses were taking place while members are out of town or traveling.
“Some of these are being scheduled when we are not in session, and that makes it more difficult,” she said. “They’re making it the most inconvenient for members of Congress to participate, and that is done on purpose.”
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A majority of Indiana Republican legislators whose opponents were backed by Donald Trump lost their primaries on Tuesday, giving the president wins in a deep-red state just months after lawmakers there rejected his redistricting plan. Of the seven Trump-endorsed challengers to state senate candidates, at least five won. More here.
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Democratic senator Sherrod Brown and Republican senator Jon Husted won their party’s nominations in Ohio’s primary elections, according to the Associated Press – teeing them up for what is expected to be a high-profile and expensive Senate race in November’s midterm elections. More here.
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Senate Republicans have released a new immigration enforcement funding package that includes a proposed $1bn that could go to security measures related to the $400m ballroom that is part of Donald Trump’s “East Wing modernization project”. More here.
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Marco Rubio argued the US is in a “very fortunate” position as fuel prices continue to climb nationwide amid disruption sparked by the US-Israel war on Iran. With average US fuel prices now approaching $4.50 a gallon – their highest level in four years – the US secretary of state was asked on Tuesday how long Americans should accept them at such levels. Other countries were suffering “big time”, Rubio replied. More here.
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Seven of the leading contenders in California’s unexpectedly dramatic race for governor faced off on the debate stage Tuesday night, with the stakes now higher because ballots are in the mail. Becerra was a top target, as expected, given his steady rise in the polls. More here.
