Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a congressional committee she has no new information about financier Jeffrey Epstein and does not recall ever meeting him. In an opening statement, Clinton said the committee had justified its subpoena on the assumption she had information about investigations into Epstein and his convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. “Let me be as clear as I can,” she said: “I do not.”
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee interviewed Clinton behind closed doors at her home in Chappaqua, New York. In a statement she posted on social media, Clinton said she had no idea about Epstein’s criminal activities, did not recall encountering him, never flew on his plane and never visited his island home or office.
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer said he planned to release the video and transcript of the deposition after approval, and that investigators left unsatisfied by some answers. Comer said the inquiry aims to understand “many things about Epstein.”
Former President Bill Clinton, who had a documented friendship with Epstein and flew on his plane several times in the early 2000s, is scheduled to be deposed next. He has denied wrongdoing and expressed regret for the association. Hillary Clinton said she was confident her husband knew nothing of Epstein’s crimes while they were in contact, noting the chronology of his connection to Epstein ended years before the criminal activities came to light.
The depositions are notable for compelling a former president to testify before Congress and for securing bipartisan support for transparency. The Clintons initially refused to testify but relented after lawmakers moved to hold them in contempt for failing to comply with subpoenas issued in August.
During her testimony, Hillary Clinton pressed the committee to subpoena President Donald Trump, saying that if the panel were serious about learning the truth it should ask Trump under oath about the many appearances of his name in Epstein-related files. She accused the committee of seeking to “protect one public official.”
Top committee Democrat Robert Garcia also called on Trump to testify to answer questions from survivors. Trump socialized with Epstein in the 1990s and 2000s before Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor, though Comer said the panel’s evidence does not implicate Trump.
Undated photographs of Bill Clinton with Epstein and Maxwell were released in December in an initial tranche of documents from the Justice Department. To comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act passed in 2025, the Justice Department has released more than three million pages of documents tied to Epstein.
Edited by: Jenipher Camino Gonzalez