The contentious discussion comes as the handling of files related to the disgraced financier is under renewed scrutiny.

The Republican senator who admitted that he killed a Senate effort to release the Jeffrey Epstein files in full because he wants to give Donald Trump "cover," was repeatedly corrected on the details about the convicted pedophile's case on CNN on Sunday morning.

CNN’s Jake Tapper repeatedly fact-checked a Republican senator on air Sunday as the lawmaker insisted that Democrats and Barack Obama’s administration were at fault for a “sweetheart” deal that allowed Jeffrey Epstein to escape his 2008 conviction on child sex charges virtually unscathed.