BREAKING NEWS: Comer Discusses Hillary Clinton's Epstein Testimony, Preview Bill Clinton Deposition — Transcript

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1. 0:00All
2. 0:10right. I want to thank everyone for
3. 0:11standing out and braving the cold. Uh,
4. 0:14our deposition has concluded. It's a
5. 0:17shame that it took 7 months to get Miss
6. 0:20Clinton in. Uh, she answered most of our
7. 0:23questions. Uh, I'm going to let some of
8. 0:26my my colleagues uh lament on on that,
9. 0:30but we're we're going to not release the
10. 0:33too many details of what happened today.
11. 0:35We're going to try to get the video out
12. 0:37uh as quickly as possible. Hopefully
13. 0:39within the next 24 hours. That's a very
14. 0:41long deposition. So, as quick as we can
15. 0:44get that uh video uh produced, we will
16. 0:47get that out. The transcript will will
17. 0:49be released as as soon as her attorneys
18. 0:51approve it. That's the standard rules of
19. 0:54a deposition. Uh and I think that uh I
20. 0:56think this was a productive deposition
21. 0:59today. I think uh we we uh learned a
22. 1:02lot. Uh there were a lot of questions
23. 1:04that we asked that we you know weren't
24. 1:06satisfied with the answers that we that
25. 1:08we got, but we will continue to to move
26. 1:10forward. Any of my colleagues, every
27. 1:13member of the committee asked questions?
28. 1:15I would just say one of the things I
29. 1:16learned today is if you really have
30. 1:18specific questions about the Clinton
31. 1:20Global Initiative or the relationship
32. 1:22between the Clintons and Jeffrey Epstein
33. 1:24and Gain Maxwell, you got to ask Bill
34. 1:27Clinton.
35. 1:28>> That and that's a great that's a great
36. 1:29point. The number of times that she said
37. 1:32I don't know, you'll have to ask my
38. 1:33husband was was you more than a dozen.
39. 1:36And I'll I'll put it like that.
40. 1:37>> If I can Yeah, if I can just pop in. Um,
41. 1:40also too, I think it's important to note
42. 1:41that we have been working in a
43. 1:42bipartisan fashion to make this as um,
44. 1:45pain painless as possible for the people
45. 1:47that we're bringing in, but also to
46. 1:48ensuring that there's accountability and
47. 1:50transparency. You will hear a lot of
48. 1:52spin sometimes out of politicos in
49. 1:54Washington. But the fact is is that it's
50. 1:57our goal and objective following this
51. 1:58and um, we also too did ask for followup
52. 2:01from the secretary on producing
53. 2:03legislation that will help prevent this
54. 2:05from ever happening again in the future.
55. 2:06obviously working to combat trafficking
56. 2:08which has been in a cause incredibly
57. 2:10important not just to myself to chair
58. 2:12comr to representative Nancy Mace but
59. 2:13many new members of this oversight
60. 2:15committee and so we are looking forward
61. 2:17to continuing to pro provide that
62. 2:18transparency and do you have anything?
63. 2:20>> Yeah.
64. 2:21>> Yeah. Um first of all I want to thank uh
65. 2:24Secretary Clinton for being here for as
66. 2:26many hours as she was here today. She
67. 2:28took every question from every single
68. 2:30member. I want to thank my colleagues on
69. 2:33both sides of the aisle, Republicans and
70. 2:35Democrats alike, for being here today
71. 2:37and asking questions. I very much look
72. 2:40forward to speaking to her husband,
73. 2:41former President Bill Clinton tomorrow.
74. 2:43We have a lot of work to do. Um, not
75. 2:46surprised by some of the answers,
76. 2:47surprised by some, and you'll get the
77. 2:49transcript very soon. But I want to
78. 2:51thank everyone who participated. This is
79. 2:53nowhere near from over. Um, and in
80. 2:55making my notes today, I've got names of
81. 2:57individuals that I believe we need to
82. 2:59haul to the oversight committee and ask
83. 3:02them their ask them questions, ask them
84. 3:05perspect their their perspective. Ask
85. 3:08them about other potential witnesses or
86. 3:10victims or potential predators. Um, I
87. 3:12think this is going to go on for a long
88. 3:14time. There are millions of files. There
89. 3:16are a lot of people involved. and uh
90. 3:18some of the gaps that have been seen
91. 3:20especially early on um you know are very
92. 3:23evident uh after speaking with her today
93. 3:25and I just want to thank everyone for
94. 3:26their time and we have a lot of work to
95. 3:28do and I'm willing to work with anyone
96. 3:30who's willing to work with me. I'll work
97. 3:32with you on getting to the bottom of
98. 3:34this making sure that this doesn't ever
99. 3:36happen again and when it does those
100. 3:38predators are held accountable to the
101. 3:40fullest extent of the law. Thank you.
102. 3:43go ahead and then we'll
103. 3:46>> So, this is a nonpartisan issue. Um, if
104. 3:48you've read the Epstein files, there's
105. 3:50unspeakable evil in there and the
106. 3:52American people and the victims deserve
107. 3:53transparency and accountability. The
108. 3:56biggest thing I think we need to know is
109. 3:57how do how do we strengthen laws to
110. 4:01prevent human trafficking in America, if
111. 4:02not the world, and how do we how do how
112. 4:05does someone with such evil infiltrate
113. 4:08the highest levels of the US government
114. 4:10and world leaders. So, we uh we're going
115. 4:12to continue to ask those questions and
116. 4:13get answers for the American people.
117. 4:18>> We'll be happy to answer.
118. 4:20>> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh Secretary
119. 4:22Clinton said in her opening statement,
120. 4:24"If Republicans were serious about
121. 4:25investigating Jeffrey Epste that you
122. 4:27would call President Trump to testify,
123. 4:29why won't you?"
124. 4:30>> Well, uh President Trump has answered
125. 4:33hundreds, if not thousands of questions
126. 4:35from you all about Epstein. uh and I I
127. 4:38think he's been very transparent in
128. 4:40releasing the documents. We expect uh
129. 4:43hopefully more documents to come in.
130. 4:45We're still assessing the 3 million plus
131. 4:47documents that we have. Uh we obviously
132. 4:50will be moving on to the next phase and
133. 4:52bringing more people in for questions.
134. 4:55So, uh again, remember this was a
135. 4:57bipartisan subpoena by members of both
136. 5:00parties to bring in Miss Clinton. And
137. 5:03it's just a shame that it took seven
138. 5:05months. And I know uh every member of
139. 5:06our committee has a big list of names
140. 5:08they want to bring in. These are big
141. 5:10powerful people that hire uh very
142. 5:14skilled law firms and they delay delay
143. 5:18delay and and you know part of when you
144. 5:21delay in this investigation it takes
145. 5:23seven months to bring a witness in like
146. 5:24it did today. That creates a problem. So
147. 5:27we're trying to move as quickly as we
148. 5:29can. Uh we're obviously following what's
149. 5:31going on in the United Kingdom now. Uh
150. 5:34we're following, you know, everything. I
151. 5:36know that there are a lot of eyes and
152. 5:37hopefully the media will play a role in
153. 5:39this. The media has a role. The
154. 5:41documents have been made public. We're
155. 5:43going to continue to fight for more
156. 5:45redactions. There are some names who
157. 5:47were redacted. I think we all agree
158. 5:49shouldn't be redacted. I don't think
159. 5:51they're who you think they are. Uh so
160. 5:53that's why we want those those names.
161. 5:54Mr. Chairman, if I could just add in
162. 5:56real quick to follow to follow up on
163. 5:57that though, we asked specifically the
164. 5:59victims and we were all there as well as
165. 6:01the speaker and the Democrat members of
166. 6:03Congress if the president was involved
167. 6:05and they exonerated him. So why would we
168. 6:07bring in the president of the United
169. 6:09States who's been exonerated who
170. 6:10cooperated with law enforcement and who
171. 6:12released the files when we had to fight?
172. 6:15We basically threatened to hold the
173. 6:16Clintons in contempt if they didn't want
174. 6:17to come in. So to be clear, we had
175. 6:20cooperation. We asked the victims
176. 6:22directly and he was exonerated. So I
177. 6:23would encourage all of you to at least
178. 6:25do the fair reporting and understanding
179. 6:26that just like you would not publish
180. 6:28false statements about the Clintons in
181. 6:30some of the allegations that have been
182. 6:31made about them, you would give the
183. 6:33president of the United States the same
184. 6:35um the same respect. And he also he
185. 6:39can ask
186. 6:40>> Hold on a second guys. Hold on. Mr.
187. 6:41Chairman, President uh President Trump
188. 6:43has released more files than anyone
189. 6:44during the Biden administration. Zero
190. 6:46files, no DOJ involvement. He has
191. 6:49secured the border, lowered a human
192. 6:51trafficking and passed the House
193. 6:53Republicans and President Trump has
194. 6:54passed antihuman trafficking legislation
195. 6:57just his first year.
196. 6:58>> Mr. Mr.
197. 7:00>> transparency as you guys said moments
198. 7:01ago, can you release any findings that
199. 7:03were discussed today? You said some
200. 7:05>> we're going to release that video and
201. 7:06you'll be able to see the whole thing as
202. 7:08quick as we can get the video produced.
203. 7:10But I think what would be interesting is
204. 7:12some of the comments that Secretary
205. 7:14Clinton made at the very end about
206. 7:17Jeffrey Epstein and I think that that
207. 7:19would apply to uh
208. 7:22others that you all obviously have an
209. 7:24interest in too. So
210. 7:25>> Mr. Can um you said uh that Bill Clinton
211. 7:29is the man to ask questions of.
212. 7:31>> That's what Miss Miss uh Mrs. Clinton
213. 7:34said many times today. Uh why did you
214. 7:37why bring Hillary Clinton along
215. 7:38>> again for the for the 15th time? This
216. 7:41was a motion made by Democrats and
217. 7:43Republicans in a subcommittee on
218. 7:45oversight. There were a list of people
219. 7:47to bring in and Bill and Hillary Clinton
220. 7:49were on the list. And I'm glad we
221. 7:50brought Hillary Clinton in because she's
222. 7:52never really answered questions until in
223. 7:55the last week about her relationship
224. 7:58with Epstein and and Maxwell. So, uh,
225. 8:00she answered questions and and, uh,
226. 8:03hopefully they'll be helpful as we move
227. 8:04forward.
228. 8:06>> Are you now on the Clinton Global
229. 8:08Initiative? Was that your main focus
230. 8:10today with Secretary Clinton? And did
231. 8:12you feel like you got the answers you
232. 8:13were looking for? Well, I I I don't want
233. 8:16to disclose too much of what was said,
234. 8:18but uh most of the questions that we
235. 8:21asked about the Clinton Global
236. 8:22Initiative, which were very specific
237. 8:24questions. Some of them were were backed
238. 8:26by emails and other documents that have
239. 8:28been released by the Department of
240. 8:29Justice. Uh she said that she was a
241. 8:31senator and and you would have to ask
242. 8:33her husband that tomorrow. So, we have a
243. 8:35lot of questions for her husband
244. 8:37tomorrow and I'm confident that
245. 8:39deposition will last even longer than
246. 8:41this one.
247. 8:41>> Chairman,
248. 8:42>> thank you all. Thank you.
249. 8:50>> NBC