Rep. Ansari says that Howard Lutnick is a “pathological liar” who is enabling a cover-up. Ansari: After what we have seen so far in this transcribed interview, I feel very comfortable saying that Howard Lutnick is a pathological liar who is enabling the most egregious cover-up in American history. In 2012, he took his family and his staff to Jeffrey Epstein’s island. I focused my questions today on how he could have done that if he and his wife were truly so uncomfortable—especially when, in 2008, we know that Jeffrey Epstein was accused and a sweetheart deal took place for soliciting a minor. Howard Lutnick tried to tell us in that room that he essentially didn’t know any of that. I asked him, how did I, as a child at the time, see this all over the media about Jeffrey Epstein, and you—an adult who was this person’s neighbor and had engaged with him before—how could you possibly not have known? I mean, the level of the lies that are taking place inside that room, without video, is unbelievable