The former president is calling for his upcoming filmed deposition to be a public hearing, so the "American people can see for themselves what this is really about"
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- In August 2025, the House Oversight Committee called Bill and Hillary Clinton to testify in the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein
- In January, they wrote a public letter saying that they would not testify, but the committee’s Chairman, James Comer, held a vote to hold them in criminal contempt if they don’t testify
- Both then agreed, but in recent days, they called for a public hearing rather than a filmed closed-door deposition
Bill Clinton says that despite his call to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, his attempts at transparency have not appeased the Republicans on the House Oversight Committee.
In a series of posts shared to X on Friday, Feb. 6. Clinton shared that he had agreed to "appear in person" before the House Oversight Committee, a move he says was "still not enough" for the Republicans on the Committee.
Clinton reiterated that he has already "called for the full release" of the Epstein files, and that he has "provided a sworn statement of what I know" to the Committee.
In a second post, Clinton noted that House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer "says he wants cameras," referring to a Feb. 2 agreement in which the Clintons would give a closed-door deposition.
"Who benefits from this arrangement? It’s not Epstein’s victims, who deserve justice," Clinton wrote. "Not the public, who deserve the truth. It serves only partisan interests. This is not fact-finding, it’s pure politics."
The former president and his wife, Hillary Clinton, were both called to testify before the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into Epstein in August 2025. In mid-January, they both wrote a joint public letter saying that they would not testify, despite calls for both to give depositions.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer held a vote to hold them in criminal contempt if they don’t testify. Weeks later, the two politicians agreed to the closed-door deposition under threat of a subpoena.
Hillary is scheduled to testify on Feb. 26, and Bill is to testify on Feb. 27. However, on Thursday, Feb. 5, Hillary, 78, said that she and the former president were demanding a public hearing.
"If you want this fight, @RepJamesComer, let’s have it—in public," Hillary wrote in a post to her X account. "You love to talk about transparency. There’s nothing more transparent than a public hearing, cameras on."
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The House Oversight Committee replied to Hillary on X., and posted screenshots of emails from the Clintons' attorneys agreeing to the conditions.
“Then they pretended that we were moving the goalpost when they received, along with the subpoenas, the House deposition guidance that explicitly mentions video recordings," the Committee's official Twitter account posted.
Bill noted in a third post on Feb. 6 that he “will not sit idly as they use me as a prop in a closed-door kangaroo court by a Republican Party running scared.”
“If they want answers, let’s stop the games & do this the right way: in a public hearing, where the American people can see for themselves what this is really about," he continued.
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The X posts come after Bill and Hillary were first subpoenaed in August 2025. When the DOJ released some of the Epstein files in December 2025, Bill was featured in multiple photographs. He has denied any wrongdoing.
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