Hillary Clinton slams Republicans after six-hour deposition

Описание: (27 Feb 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chappaqua, New York - 26 February 2026
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State:
"I thought it was very repetitive. I thought that they asked literally the same question over and over again, which didn't seem to me to be very productive. And then, as I said toward the end, you know, there were other questions that were totally off subject."
++WHITE FLASH++
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State:
"I started being asked about UFOs and a series of questions about Pizzagate, one of the most vile, bogus conspiracy theories that was propagated on the internet, that was serving as the basis of a member's questions to me."
++WHITE FLASH++
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State:
"They had a chance to do it in public, and I wish they had done it in public. And I think, they're making the wrong decision avoiding doing it in public."
++WHITE FLASH++
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State:
"I think it is fair to say that the vast majority of people who had contact with him before his criminal pleas in '08, were like most people. They did not know what he was doing. And I think that, that is exactly what my husband will testify to tomorrow."
++WHITE FLASH++
SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State:
"I don't know when the video (of the deposition) will be out. I don't know when the transcript will be out. We've asked that they be out as quickly as possible and then you can you can see everything. Thank you."
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton strongly criticized Republican lawmakers who questioned her during a six-hour deposition.

Clinton told lawmakers that she had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s or Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes, starting off two days of depositions that will also include former President Bill Clinton.

The depositions in the Clintons' hometown of Chappaqua, a typically quiet hamlet north of New York City, come after months of tense back-and-forth between the former high-powered Democratic couple and the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee as it investigates Epstein, who killed himself in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial.

It will be the first time that a former president has been forced to testify before Congress.

Yet the demand for a reckoning over Epstein's abuse of underage girls has become a near-unstoppable force on Capitol Hill and beyond.

President Donald Trump, a Republican who has expressed regret that the Clintons are being forced to testify, bowed last year to pressure to release case files on Epstein.

The Clintons, too, agreed to testify after their offers of sworn statements were rebuffed by the Oversight panel and its chairman, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., threatened criminal contempt of Congress charges against them.

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