James Comer grilled for massive double standard on Trump official's Epstein testimony

House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) was peppered with questions about why he let a member of President Donald Trump's cabinet give a deposition on Jeffrey Epstein without video recording it, while refusing the same opportunity to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton.

On Wednesday, Comer spoke to reporters at the Capitol minutes before beginning the deposition with Lutnick.

"Mr. Chairman, what are your questions about his associations?" Fox News correspondent Chad Pergram asked. "He went to the island with his family with Mr. Epstein. He didn't seem to cut off his communications with Epstein after his conviction. Are those some of your questions?"

"Yeah, yeah," Comer replied. "Those are the questions."

"It's my understanding he wasn't on the island very long, and he was there with his wife and kids, but we'll see what he says," he noted.

"But this is pretty extraordinary to bring in a cabinet secretary or something like this," Pergram said.

"Yeah, and look, I've been on the oversight committee 10 years, and there's never been a chairman bring in cabinet secretaries of their own party," Comer bragged. "We have Pam Bondi coming in a couple of weeks. So I think people can see that this is a bipartisan investigation. We're really sincerely trying to get the truth."

"Our goal is to provide justice for the victims, and hopefully today will be helpful," he added.

Another reporter asked if Lutnick's credibility had been undermined after he falsely claimed that he cut ties with Epstein following a sex offender conviction.

"We're going to ask him all these questions, and we'll let the American people judge whether the credibility was damaged or not," Comer remarked. "At the end of the day, I haven't seen wrongdoing in the email correspondence, but he wasn't 100% truthful whether or not he had been on the island. So we'll see, and we'll obviously release the transcripts, and everyone can see for themselves."

"Why just a transcript?" Pergram demanded to know.

"Do you have any concerns about the secretary's conflicting statements and why not do this as a videotape?" a second reporter pressed.

"Well, this is, you know, with this transcript, he's coming in voluntarily, first of all," Comer said in defense of the process. "So we didn't video, we don't video people that come in to volunteer."

"But at the end of the day, the transcript is the most important thing," the chairman argued.