Chris Van Hollen

But as I'm sure you know, the Epstein files show a very different record of interaction.

Why do the Epstein files show you coordinating a meeting and planning a visit with Jeffrey Epstein on his private island in December 2012?

Secretary Letnick, I think you understand the root of concern here.

It's the way you described very emphatically your first encounter with him in his apartment

said you were disgusted, would never have any contact with him again.

Did you, in fact, make the visit to Jeffrey Epstein's private island?

Mr. Secretary, again, as I said, there's...

not an indication that you yourself engaged in any wrongdoing with Jeffrey Epstein.

It's the fact that you believe that you misled the country and the Congress based on your earlier statements, suggesting that you'd cut off all contact when in fact you had not.

When you visited the private island, did you see anything inappropriate during that visit?

And you realize that this visit took place after he'd been convicted, right?

I mean, you made a very big point of saying that you sensed that this was a bad person in 2005.

And then, of course, in 2008, he was convicted of...

soliciting prostitution of a minor, and yet you went and had this trip and other interactions.

Did you have a dinner in Epstein's New York City home in 2011?

No.

So the information that suggests that there was a dinner with Woody Allen and Woody Allen's spouse at the Epstein residence, there's nothing to that, is that right?

All right.

There's also a reference to the fact that Epstein had expressed an interest in meeting your nanny.

Do you know whether Jeffrey Epstein ever met with your nanny?