Washington — The Home Oversight Committee on Monday launched video of final week’s depositions with former President Invoice Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as a part of its investigation into convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Hillary Clinton testified Thursday, whereas Invoice Clinton appeared earlier than the committee a day later.
The video of Invoice Clinton’s testimony is 4 hours and 33 minutes. Hillary Clinton’s testimony is 4 hours and 35 minutes.
The depositions came about behind closed doorways in Chappaqua, New York, the Clintons’ hometown. It capped what Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the Republican chairman of the committee, described as a prolonged effort to safe testimony from the couple about their data of Epstein and his affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell, who’s in jail on intercourse trafficking prices.
Watch Invoice Clinton’s Epstein deposition
Watch Hillary Clinton’s deposition
The Clintons have repeatedly mentioned that they’d no data of Epstein or Maxwell’s crimes. Each Clintons launched their opening statements to the committee earlier than their testimony.
The previous secretary of state mentioned in her written assertion that she “had no concept about their legal actions. I don’t recall ever encountering Mr. Epstein. I by no means flew on his aircraft or visited his island, properties or workplaces. I’ve nothing so as to add to that.”
She claimed the committee’s actions have been “designed to guard one political occasion and one public official, relatively than to hunt fact and justice for the victims and survivors,” a reference to Republicans and President Trump. She accused the committee of compelling her testimony “absolutely conscious that I’ve no data that may help your investigation, with a view to distract consideration from President Trump’s actions and canopy them up regardless of legit requires solutions.”
Invoice Clinton mentioned in his written testimony that he “had no concept of the crimes Epstein was committing.”
“Regardless of what number of images you present me, I’ve two issues that on the finish of the day matter greater than your interpretation of these 20-year-old images. I do know what I noticed, and extra importantly, what I did not see. I do know what I did, and extra importantly, what I did not do. I noticed nothing, and I did nothing mistaken,” the previous president mentioned in his assertion.
The previous president strayed from his ready remarks through the deposition, saying there is a photograph of him and his spouse shaking arms with Epstein throughout a photograph line for a White Home Historic Affiliation fundraiser in 1993.
“Neither she nor I remembered shaking his hand all these years in the past,” he mentioned, chiding the committee for bringing in his spouse for questioning. “So I do not suppose that was proper. However, I do suppose you need to be speaking to me. I feel it’s best to have referred to as me. I did take these aircraft journeys with him, and you’ve got a proper to ask these questions.”
Throughout questioning, Invoice Clinton confirmed he wrote a letter to Epstein that was included in a ebook for the disgraced financier’s fiftieth birthday. He mentioned he didn’t bear in mind why he contributed, however mentioned it was doubtless on the request of his workers.
Transcripts of the depositions have but to be launched.
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