US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has confirmed he visited Jeffrey Epstein's island in 2012, contradicting previous claims that he had cut ties with the sex offender years earlier, before he was convicted. I did have lunch with him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation, Lutnick testified on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. My wife was with me, as were my four children and nannies … We had lunch on the island. That is true. For an hour. Correspondence about the visit was included in Epstein documents released by the US Department of Justice. Some lawmakers have called on Lutnick to resign, but on Tuesday the White House said he had the full support of President Donald Trump. The commerce secretary had previously told Congress that he cut ties with Epstein in 2005 after the late financier - a neighbor of Lutnick's in New York - used sexual innuendo to explain why he owned a massage table in a room of his home. Lutnick also disclosed that within the millions of pages of Epstein documents released by the justice department, roughly 10 emails connect him with Epstein. His testimony on Capitol Hill marked the first time he publicly confirmed the visit. Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna and Republican Congressman Thomas Massie, who co-sponsored the law that compelled the justice department to release the Epstein files last year, have both urged Lutnick to step down.