Topline
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will testify to House lawmakers Thursday about her knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein, after previously fighting her subpoena to testify, marking one of the most high-profile testimonies yet in the House Oversight Committee’s Epstein investigation and coming a day before her husband, former President Bill Clinton, speaks to the committee.
Hillary Clinton moderates a panel at the 62nd Munich Security Conference on February 14 in Munich, Germany.
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Key Facts
The former secretary of state will speak to House lawmakers in closed-door testimony in Chappaqua, New York, where she lives, part of the House Oversight Committee’s broader probe into Epstein and his alleged sexual assault.
The testimony will not be broadcast to the public Thursday—despite the Clintons wanting to testify publicly—but will be videotaped, NBC News notes.
Since the committee has released tapes and transcripts of other similar interviews to the public in the past, it will likely do the same here.
House lawmakers subpoenaed both Clintons to testify in the probe last year, but the interviews are taking place now after the couple previously refused to comply with the subpoenas, but then ultimately switched course and agreed to testify, avoiding a court battle over the issue.
Both have said they do not have any personal knowledge of Epstein’s alleged abuse to share with the committee, and neither have ever been accused of any wrongdoing in connection with the financier.
Hillary Clinton told the BBC last week she met Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell on “a few occasions,” but does not believe she ever met Epstein himself, and was not on trips her husband took with the financier.
Crucial Quote
“We have nothing to hide. We have called for the full release of these files repeatedly. We think sunlight is the best disinfectant,” Hillary Clinton told the BBC last week. The former secretary of state argued her and her husband were being used by Republicans as a “shiny object” to distract from President Donald Trump’s ties to Epstein, claiming Republicans were saying, “We’re going to have the Clintons [testify], even Hillary Clinton, who never met the guy.”
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