Hillary Clinton wraps with Home Oversight in Epstein investigation : NPR

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Yuki Iwamura/AP Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spent greater than six hours in a closed-door deposition Thursday, dealing with questions from the Home Oversight Committee. The Republican-led committee subpoenaed Clinton, and her husband, former President Invoice Clinton, to look in its investigation into convicted intercourse offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The previous president will take questions Friday from the committee.

In a brief press convention following the deposition, Hillary Clinton stated she wished the proceedings had been public and that she and her attorneys have requested for transcripts and movies to be accessible as quickly as doable.

"It was disappointing that they refused to carry a public listening to so I would not must be out right here characterizing it for you," she informed reporters outdoors the Chappaqua Performing Arts Heart in New York the place the listening to passed off. "You could possibly have seen it for your self. We had requested for that. We expect it could have been higher for the committee and its efforts to assemble no matter info they're searching for."

Lamenting what she referred to as "repetitive" questioning, Clinton stated she wouldn't seem earlier than the committee once more, even when the deposition have been public.

"I do not know what number of occasions I needed to say I didn't know Jeffrey Epstein. I by no means went to his island, I by no means went to his dwelling, I by no means went to his workplaces," she stated. The previous president, her husband Invoice, did have a friendship with Epstein and pictures of him seem within the Epstein information. Invoice Clinton has not be accused of wrongdoing.

Clinton stated by the top of the listening to, Republicans have been asking her off-topic questions on UFOs and the pizzagate conspiracy idea that falsely claimed some high-profile Democrats have been concerned in a toddler sex-trafficiking ring.

In a preview of what lawmakers might hear from former President Invoice Clinton Friday, Hillary Clinton stated she was assured that Invoice Clinton knew nothing about Epstein's prison historical past and that her husband's relationship with Epstein ended "a number of years earlier than something about Epstein's prison historical past got here to gentle."

She added Epstein was given a sweetheart deal when he was initially charged and convicted in 2008 of soliciting intercourse from underage women in Florida.

"I feel it's honest to say that the overwhelming majority of people that had contact with him earlier than his prison pleas in '08, they didn't know what he was doing," Clinton stated, "and I feel that that's precisely what my husband will testify to tomorrow."

Committee Chair, Kentucky Republican Rep. James Comer, stated he hopes to have the video publicly accessible inside the subsequent 24 hours. The transcript, Comer stated, can be revealed as soon as Clinton's attorneys approve it, that are the usual guidelines of a deposition.

Regardless of a quick interruption shortly after the proceedings began, when Clinton halted the deposition after a photograph from contained in the room was posted by a conservative influencer on X, the questioning finally continued with lawmakers on each side of the aisle.

Talking after the deposition, Comer and his fellow Republicans stated it was productive and that Clinton answered most of their questions however that it "was a disgrace" that it took months to get the Clintons to conform to testify.

"I feel we discovered rather a lot. There have been plenty of questions that we requested that we, you already know, weren't glad with the solutions that we acquired, however we are going to proceed to maneuver ahead," Comer stated.

Comer stated there have been plenty of occasions Clinton responded with "I do not know, you will must ask my husband." And that's precisely what he plans to do on Friday.