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Hillary Clinton’s Epstein testimony not about ‘feelings’ · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest News from The Australian. I'm Christinamiot with the
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  Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. Hillary Clinton didn't come to talk about feelings.
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  Speaker 1: That was reportedly the testimony of the former U S
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of State, who on Thursday gave evidence to a
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  Speaker 1: House Oversight committee investigating a sex trafficking ring operated by
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  Speaker 1: the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend, Gilaine Maxwell.
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  Speaker 1: Clinton's husband, former US President Bill Clinton, was acquainted with Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: who died by suicide in a Manhattan jail in twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: While awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, Hillary Clinton was
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  Speaker 1: reportedly asked by a Republican senator how she felt about
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  Speaker 1: quote young women giving massages to her husband. That's a
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  Speaker 1: reference to a two thousand and two photo of Bill
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  Speaker 1: Clinton and Epstein accuser Shaunte Davies where Davies appears to
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  Speaker 1: be giving the former president a shoulder massage. Davies has
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  Speaker 1: since said Bill Clinton was quote a perfect gentleman, and
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  Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton reportedly told the House Overside Committee on Thursday
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  Speaker 1: she wouldn't speculate about events where she wasn't present, and
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  Speaker 1: added she didn't front up to talk about feelings. The
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  Speaker 1: Clintons aren't accused of any wrongdoing. A subpoena issued to
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  Speaker 1: them several months ago by Oversight Committee chairman James Comer
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  Speaker 1: stated questioning would focus on Bill Clinton's use of Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's private jet in the early two thousands for work
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  Speaker 1: related to their namesake foundation. Pictures of Bill Clinton appear
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  Speaker 1: in the so called Epstein Files, which were released by
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  Speaker 1: the US Department of Justice earlier this year. Hillary Clinton
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  Speaker 1: doesn't appear in the files. She reportedly told the House
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  Speaker 1: Oversight Committee she has no information about Epstein's crimes and
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  Speaker 1: suggested they question current US President Donald Trump under oath
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  Speaker 1: about the quote tens of thousands of times he shows
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  Speaker 1: up in the Epstein files. The former Secretary of State
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  Speaker 1: gave her testimony behind closed doors, and the session was
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  Speaker 1: briefly halted after Republican Lauren Bobert leaked a picture of
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  Speaker 1: the closed deposition room. The Clintons previously refused to testify
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  Speaker 1: in the investigation, calling the proceedings legally invalid in a
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  Speaker 1: statement released in mid January, but they relented when lawmakers
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  Speaker 1: threatened to hold them in contempt of Congress. Speaking to
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  Speaker 1: the media, on Thursday night. Hillary Clinton expressed her disappointment
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  Speaker 1: the hours long deposition wasn't publicly broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: You could have seen it for yourself. We had asked
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  Speaker 2: for that. We think it would have been better for
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  Speaker 2: the committee and its efforts to gather whatever information they
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  Speaker 2: are seeking.
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  Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton also said the hearing was highly repetitive and
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  Speaker 1: went at times in unexpected directions.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how many times I had to say
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  Speaker 2: I did not know Jeffrey Hepstein. I never went to
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  Speaker 2: his island, I never went to his homes, I never
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  Speaker 2: went to his offices. So it's on the record numerous times.
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  Speaker 2: It then got at the end quite unusual because I
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  Speaker 2: started being asked about UFOs and a series of questions
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  Speaker 2: about Pizzagate, one of the most vile, bogus conspiracy theories
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  Speaker 2: that was propagated on the Internet that was serving as
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  Speaker 2: the basis of a member's questions to me.
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  Speaker 1: Bill Clinton will testify before the House Oversight Committee in
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  Speaker 1: New York on Friday. Susan Lee has formerly resigned from Parliament,
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  Speaker 1: triggering a by election in the southwestern New South Wales
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  Speaker 1: the ousted Liberal Party leader said she won't return to
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  Speaker 1: Parliament for a valedictory speech and put pressure on her
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