Speaker 1: So today, Hillary Clinton spoke with US House lawmakers in
a closed door deposition important remember closed door deposition, and
said that she had absolutely no knowledge of Epstein or
Maxwell's crimes. Now, before we get into what she said,
we have to actually start with the drama that exploded
literally minutes after the deposition started. Representative Lauren Bolbert Well
got to leave it to good old Lauren Bobert to
send a photo to Bennie Johnson of Hillary Clinton, which
Dopey Penn ended up reposting on his social media account.
Let me show you this is what Benny john breaking
the first image of Hillary Clinton testifying under oath about
Jeffrey Epstein to the Republican Oversight Committee. This is the
first time Hillary has had to answer real questions about Epstein.
Clinton does not look happy photo provided by Representative Lauren
Bobert's way to literally throw her on to the bus. Now,
he then posted another photo that clearly, despite despite the
fact he already said who did it, that clearly showed
that Bobert is the one who took the photo. Let
me show you this one. Yeah, I think we know
exactly who it came from. Now, let's be clear about
something the Clinton's actually asked for their deposition to be
open to the public, but James Comer, he said no.
For a GOP member of Congress to then post a photo, well,
let's just say it, it's ironic. Deposition was paused once
people saw the social media post play the clip.
Speaker 2: Advisor to Secretary Clinton.
Speaker 3: This is Hillerine is a advisor to President Clinton.
Speaker 1: The hearing just went off the record for a moment because.
Speaker 2: It seemed that some of you may have seen that
there was some.
Speaker 3: There were some photographs shared on social media, which is
against Chamber of that were read at the.
Speaker 4: Top of the meeting.
Speaker 2: So the hearing has been paused briefly while they figure
out where the photo came from and why possibly members
of Congress are violating how fool.
Speaker 5: So we'll keep you updated.
Speaker 2: We just wanted to share what that means inside. Yeah,
I'm actually saying that.
Speaker 4: Can you explain what the picture is?
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you look, if you.
Speaker 3: Look on your Twitter feed, you know who came from.
Speaker 2: It came from Benny Johnson, he said. Lauren Bover gave yeah,
look at.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 5: We'll be back then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, it's not going to take too much investigatory work.
To figure that one out, mind you. Hillary Clinton even
asked Comer if the press then could come in since
the photo was already shared, play.
Speaker 6: That clip, all right, a broker this deposition, Clinton basically
asked for Comer to have press come in for the
rest of the deposition. You'll remember that the Clintons wanted
to do this publicly anyway. Very hard to see what
the distinction is between posting pictures in real time but
saying that you can't do a public hearing. I think
we're going to end up hearing more about that from
the Clinton side and from Democrats as today goes on.
There was also the point where she asked comer, can
the press come in for the rest of the deposition?
Speaker 2: He said no.
Speaker 6: I think for folks who covered the Clinton campaign in
twenty sixteen, the idea of Hillary Clinton asking for more
press to be around certainly as a turn of the
dial that they would have liked ten years ago. But
that request obviously denied, and the deposition is now continuing
as it was, which is behind closed doors and for
we don't know how long.
Speaker 1: Still, Yeah, let me be crystal clear. If Lauren Bobert
acknowledges that she did it. She's going to end up
having to answer answered definitively for that one. And welcome
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Like I said at the top of this video, Hillary
said that she didn't know about the Epstein crimes. She later,
of course, posted her opening statement on social media, and
I actually want to read you part of it. In it,
she turns around and she writes, as I stated in
my sworn declaration on January thirteenth, I had no idea
about their criminal activities. I do not recall ever encountering
mister Epstein. I never flew on his plane or visited
his island homes or offices. I have nothing to add
to that. Like every decent person, I have been horrified
by what we have learned about their crimes. It's unfathomable
that mister Epstein initially got a slap on the wrist
in two thousand and eight, which allowed him to continue
his predatory practices for another decade. You know, it's interesting,
how do we not acknowledge and accept Hillary Clinton's statement
for that? And I bring that up because I too
have provided a declaration. I provided a declaration staying the
same thing. But yet there's still a whole group of individuals.
There was an entire side that just refused to acknowledge that.
I too, never met Jeffrey Epstein, never spoke to, never communicated,
never saw him at the Trump office, never heard him
speaking to Trump from the time that I began there
in two thousand and seven to the time that Trump
became president. During the first administration, let's at least hope
that they believe Hillary Clinton. Mind you, Representative Robert Garcia,
he actually spoke to reporters after saying it wasn't hard,
of course, to figure out who sent that photo. Let
me show you play the clip.
Speaker 6: Of course, thank you as ranking member. That leaked photo
get out, and do you believe there should be any repercussions.
Speaker 5: Well, the repercussion should come from the majority and from
Chairman Comer. I mean, it was very clear that that
leaked photo was sent out by a member. I think
it's not hard to figure out what member that was
by looking at the photo and the fact it was
not just one photo. It was one photo and then
a second post that also included a photo as well,
and so that.
Speaker 1: Was completely against the rules.
Speaker 5: I think we're grateful that the secretary continued the deposition,
but not not acceptable.
Speaker 1: By the way. He's right, it's not acceptable either you
abide by the rules or allowed the entire press allowed
the public to come in and watch it too. Meanwhile,
Garcia also explained that Clinton has been answering all the
questions and not pleading the fifth to any of them
play that clip from her.
Speaker 5: Secretary. Clinton is also completely cooperating with the deposition and
the committee and his answering question in full faith and
in good faith. What is not acceptable is oversight Republicans
breaking their own committee rules that they established with the
Secretary and her team, which you've all recorded you've seen
by releasing quoto is not acceptable and it was gracious
of the Secretary and her team to continue the deposition.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean again, is there anything else anybody can say?
It means she could have turned around and said you
broke the rules, I don't need to do it, but
instead she kept going and it's under oath. Meanwhile, represented
Bell explain that the GOP not handling the investigation. Let's
just say on how serious the offenses should be handled.
Play that clip, and as a.
Speaker 3: Former prosecutor, I've been involved in leading in this investigation
and serious offenses, and this ain't it. What we're seeing
is political theater. What we're seeing is folks that are
looking for headlines and tweets as opposed to doing the
business of going about getting justice for the victims in
this case and survivors in this case. I should say
as well, and I think that that's what I think
some of our friends on the other side are losing
sight of, is that we are here to make certain
that justice is served, and it's important for us and
as Oversight members to do our job to ensure that
all the evidence, any information is heard, and that any victims,
any survivors voices are heard as well, and that's what
we're supposed to be doing. And so what we're seeing
today is a we have not learned one new thing.
The secretary is here or she is more than happy
to have all of you come in there and this
deposition and hear her out. But there are those on
the other side of the eye. We do not want
that for whatever reason, and so we're going to continue
to push for justice. We're going to continue to work
to make certain that the victims and survivors are given
their due and their voices are heard, and that justice
is ultimately served.
Speaker 1: Okay, isn't that what we all want? I mean, isn't
that what we all should want? In fact, it's not
just on the Democratic side. I believe that there are
plenty of people on the Republican side that want that
as well. All I can do is just keep yelling
and screaming along with each and every one of you.
Release the files. Now. Garcia continue to say that his
committee has set a new precedent by talking to former
presidents and therefore Trump should have to testify as well.
Play that clip.
Speaker 5: Lastly, I want to also add that this committee has
now set a new president about talking to presidents and
former presidents. And we're demanding immediately that we ask President
Trump to testify in front of our committee, be and
be deposed in front of oversight Republicans and Democrats, and
that should happen immediately. He is the person that appears
almost more than anyone else in the committee, and it
needs to happen right now.
Speaker 2: Mister transfer, do you distinguish it all? Do you distinguish
it all between the president and a former present in
the sitting present?
Speaker 4: I mean, is there something in there?
Speaker 2: Because they will say, wait.
Speaker 3: A minute, we know what I think.
Speaker 4: Look, I know what the court ruled on as a mineral.
Speaker 5: We should we should depose the person that is mentioned
in the Epstein files almost more than any other person
next to Going Maxwell, and that's Donald Trump. We're gonna
have a couple of comments and then we're gonna.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and let me also be crystal clear, there is
a major distinction. Now, do I think that everybody whose
name appears in there should be forced to testify absolutely
if in fact that there is documentation or evidence that
would suggest it. My god, my name is probably listed
one hundred times in the Epstein files, but not because
of my connection to Jeffrey Epstein, but because somebody like
Jeffrey Epstein was talking to somebody like Democratic Member Stacy Plaskett.
All right, so my name shows up there. My name
also shows up with Jeffrey Epstein talking about my house
oversight hearing. So just because my name exists in the
file doesn't mean that I should be dragged in to
have to testify. Again, if there is evidence of any
individual I don't care who it is, then yes that
person should be drawn in. But just because the name
is mentioned, I don't know. I don't know. It looks
like then there could be tens of thousands of people.
How were we going to get justice? Then? Meanwhile, earlier
today James Comer, he actually did acknowledge that he may
bring in Howard Lutnick for questioning. Play that clip more question?
Speaker 6: Would you then ask the Commerce Secretary Howard Luttne it
can come testify.
Speaker 2: It seems like he has some.
Speaker 4: Information that's very possible. And I think there, you know,
I think it's a good possibility that his name will
arise in some questioning today.
Speaker 2: It'll be on my list, and I have an email
I printed off for Hillary asked about Howard Lutnik today
and Joy.
Speaker 4: We're asking again.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: And I want to remind everyone we've already brought in
Alex Acosta and Bill Barr for depositions. That's two Republicans
in the in the Trump administration. So this isn't just
about Democrats. This is about anyone that has any knowledge
of Epstein the investigation. I think we all agree the
government failed. The government failed the victims. And what our
role is. We can't we can't prosecute anyone, But what
we have been doing is getting transparency with the American people.
Speaker 1: We subpoena, yes, one hundred percent, any single person who
has a direct connection to Jeffrey Epstein and there's an
appearance of an impropriety and an appearance of potential rape
of a child. Damn straight, they should be brought in.
And then after they're brought in that testimony, she goes
straight over to the Attorney General. I meanwhile, we do
know that this entire investigation is political. I don't care
what anybody says, but Representative supermanian He made the point
that while no GOP members went to less Wester's deposition,
many of them, well, they decided to show up to
Hillary Clinton's play the clip.
Speaker 2: I want to make clear that there are no Republicans
in Ohio to talk to Les Wexler, who bankrolled the
Epstein's fortune for the most part, allowed a lot of
his crimes to happen. Ka Hillary Clinton, who maintains that
she doesn't recall meeting Jeffrey Epstein, is here today and
we have a lot of Republicans here today. That's underscores
to me the partisan nature of what some of the
Republicans on our committee in Congress are doing and the
way they're approaching this investigation. Meanwhile, they're not holding the
Department of Justice accountable for breaking the law over and
over again. There's two and a half million files that
have not been released, and now we're hearing and seeing
evidence of some of those files, including accusations against President Trump.
We know that there are other information in those files
that clearly is not about protecting victims. It's about protecting
people who committed crimes. And so we as Democrats on
the Oversight Committee or can continue to approach this investigation
in a nonpartisan way because all we want is the
truth and we want justice for the survivors. And we
want to make sure this never happens again, no matter
how rich, how powerful the perpetrators are.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Yeah, totally listen. Once again, I think we
all absolutely agree everybody who is guilty should be held accountable.
One hundred percent partisan, nonpartisan, doesn't make a difference to me.
I don't care under what theory that you choose to
try to go after these individuals. If you're guilty, you're guilty,
and let the documents show it, release the files, and
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