The billionaire philanthropist testified on Wednesday in a closed-door congressional hearing about the Justice Department’s investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.

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Senior officials clashed in a series of meetings as they struggled to manage a crisis over the president’s refusal to release the documents.

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The president’s top advisers gathered in a series of Situation Room meetings as they struggled to contain a scandal engulfing Donald Trump himself.

Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, has retained Jake Greenberg, the former top investigative counsel to the House Oversight Committee.

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