Bill Clinton testifies before House panel about his connection to Jeffrey Epstein

Former President Bill Clinton will on Friday become the first former president to testify under a congressional subpoena when he appears in front of the House Oversight Committee as part of its probe into Jeffrey Epstein.The deposition will be given behind closed doors in Clinton’s hometown of Chappaqua, New York, and comes a day after his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, gave her deposition to the panel in a six-hour-long hearing. It also comes after a contentious negotiation between the Clintons’ attorneys and House Republicans, led by Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer who pushed for in-person, recorded depositions rather than written testimony or declarations. 
“I don’t know how many times I had to say I didn’t know Jeffrey Epstein,” the former first lady said after her testimony.
The Clintons have not been accused of any wrongdoing and Hillary Clinton told reporters after her deposition that she does not believe her husband was aware of Epstein’s crimes during their association. 
The Department of Justice files on Epstein, the deceased financier who pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from a female minor, include several pictures of Clinton in the company of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite now serving time for  sex trafficking in connection to her relationship with Epstein. 
Clinton’s association with Epstein was in connection with efforts – after he was president and before Epstein’s 2008 guilty plea – to raise money from wealthy donors for the Clinton Foundation and later for the Clinton Global Initiative.
Comer said he will release the video and transcript of the depositions as soon as the couple approves it.

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