U.S. Commerce Department Secretary Howard Lutnick is distancing himself from Jeffrey Epstein, amid calls for his resignation over new revelations about their ties. At a Senate hearing, Lutnick admitted that he and his family had lunch with the convicted sex offender Epstein on the latter's private island in 2012. This is contradictory with what he said in a TV interview last October, when he claimed he had cut ties with Epstein since 2005.