Politics

Comer did not rule out issuing a subpoena to Lutnick

Ghislaine Maxwell declined to answer questions during a virtual deposition before the House Oversight Committee

Suhas Subramanyam said Maxwell is campaigning to get a pardon from President Trump

David Oscar Markus told lawmakers Maxwell would answer questions if granted clemency by President Trump

House Democrats teamed with Republicans to force the Oversight Committee to subpoena the department and the Epstein estate for records

The Justice Department began to make unredacted versions of its investigative material into Epstein available to members of Congress on Monday

The department finished the release of the files last month

Maxwell has come under increasing scrutiny since the initial request

Democrats demanded to visit her there citing whistle-blower accusations of preferential treatment

Democrats condemned that stance in the deposition

Markus said Maxwell could clear Trump and Clinton from any accusations of wrongdoing

Comer first requested to depose Maxwell in July

The panel also requested depositions for current and former government officials and Maxwell

Among universities targeted by Trump administration Harvard is only one that sued arguing government moves are illegal

On Thursday Mr Newsom suggested University of California would not bow to federal government

Government is seeking appointment of monitor abolition of scholarships connected to race or ethnicity and cessation of diversity statements in hiring

White House proposed terms were not exclusively financial

Administration is negotiating with handful of universities including Cornell and Harvard

On July 29 Justice Department said it believed UCLA had committed civil rights violations

President wanted nearly double that to restart flow of funds