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Hillary Clinton And The Transcript From Her Epstein Related Talk With Congress (Part 8) (9/16/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. In this episode we're picking up where we
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  Speaker 1: left off with the Hillary Clinton transcript from her trip
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  Speaker 1: to Congress. Question. I know the public wants names to
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  Speaker 1: be named and I know this is a difficult question
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  Speaker 1: for you given your lack of a relationship with Epstein
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  Speaker 1: or Maxwell. But are there any names you think we
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  Speaker 1: should be talking to at this point that haven't been
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  Speaker 1: out there already? Answer. Answer. I don't know any more
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  Speaker 1: than you do as to what's being exposed in the files.
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  Speaker 1: I saw where Congressman Massey stood on the floor the
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  Speaker 1: other day and said that he named three people. As
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  Speaker 1: I recall, that should be investigated. But there's a long
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  Speaker 1: list of people who, even if they did not do
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  Speaker 1: something themselves wrong because of their association with Epstein, might
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  Speaker 1: have credible information for your committee. Question and final question.
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  Speaker 1: You've expressed a desire for this hearing to be public.
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  Speaker 1: I'd just love to hear sort of an explanation as
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  Speaker 1: to why. Answer, yeah, look, I think sunlight is the
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  Speaker 1: best disinfectant. I think as much as we can do
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  Speaker 1: in public, we should do. And I've testified before Congress
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  Speaker 1: many times before you were there, and it's always in public.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's what we did. I testified, and I
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  Speaker 1: was on the other side of the table asking questions
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  Speaker 1: in public. Except for something that was classified that couldn't
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  Speaker 1: be public. What we did was in the sunlight in
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  Speaker 1: front of the press because people, namely our constituents, deserve
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  Speaker 1: to know what we were finding out, to go along
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  Speaker 1: with us, with a few exceptions, to understand what Congress
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  Speaker 1: is doing. So I believe for a long time, I
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  Speaker 1: think we should be testifying in public, and I think
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  Speaker 1: it would benefit this committee for people to see that
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  Speaker 1: you're actually doing things, and especially if you call people
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  Speaker 1: who have some credible information for you, that you are committed,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of the cover-up in the Justice Department or whatever
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  Speaker 1: direction the DOJ is getting from the White House, you
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  Speaker 1: are determined to find out the truth. Question, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Next person up. Asking questions again. Another congressman. Doesn't say
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  Speaker 1: a name. Question. Secretary, how are you? Answer. I'm okay. Question.
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  Speaker 1: First and foremost, thank you for being here. Question. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Or answer. Thank you. Question. Secondly, as an attorney, I
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  Speaker 1: know sometimes things are done differently in D.C., but when
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  Speaker 1: an agreement is made and our word is given, it
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  Speaker 1: should be kept. Answer. I agree with that. question, and
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  Speaker 1: first and foremost, to get into the line of questioning
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  Speaker 1: that I had, on November 12th of last year, Oversight
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  Speaker 1: Committee Democrats released emails that were obtained from the estate
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  Speaker 1: of Jeffrey Epstein. In one email from 2011, Epstein said
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  Speaker 1: to Glenn Maxwell that President Trump was, quote, the dog
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  Speaker 1: that hasn't barked, and that an unnamed victim spent hours
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  Speaker 1: at my house with him. In another email from 2019,
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  Speaker 1: Epstein wrote that, of course, he's referring to President Trump,
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  Speaker 1: and that he knew about the girls as he asked
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  Speaker 1: Glenn to stop. Two days later, President Trump directed Attorney
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  Speaker 1: General Pam Bondi to investigate President Clinton and other prominent
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  Speaker 1: Democrats in order to distract from his own close ties
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  Speaker 1: to Jeffrey Epstein. I'll mark his minority exhibit B, a
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  Speaker 1: truth social post from Donald Trump, dated November 14th, 2025,
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  Speaker 1: and I think you have that now. As you can see,
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  Speaker 1: President Trump's post refers to Jeffrey Epstein's crimes against young
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  Speaker 1: girls and women as the Epstein hoax. His post also
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  Speaker 1: completely ignores several other high-profile individuals, including Republicans and allies
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  Speaker 1: of President Trump, who are known to have had relationships
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  Speaker 1: with Epstein. In fact, the Epstein files contain numerous officials
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  Speaker 1: in the current and previous Trump administrations who have had
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  Speaker 1: connections to Jeffrey Epstein, including, but I'm sure not limited to,
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  Speaker 1: Howard Lutnick, RFK Jr., Steve Bannon, Elon Musk, Tom Barack,
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Warsh, and Mehmet Oz, to name a few. Secretary Clinton,
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  Speaker 1: to your knowledge, has the Trump administration done anything at
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  Speaker 1: all to investigate these other individuals with ties to Epstein. Yo,
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  Speaker 1: what is this person even doing right now? That's how
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  Speaker 1: you're spending your time asking your questions? This is about
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  Speaker 1: the Clintons. And when you want to talk about political theater, folks,
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  Speaker 1: here it is once again. Congressman, I know nothing. Just
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  Speaker 1: reading the press. I obviously have no inside information. that
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  Speaker 1: there has been any effort whatsoever to investigate the names
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  Speaker 1: that you just mentioned or any others who might have
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  Speaker 1: credible information about Jeffrey Epstein's crimes. And I think that's
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  Speaker 1: where this committee comes in. You're not beholden to the
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  Speaker 1: Justice Department. You have an independent Article 1 jurisdiction. You
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  Speaker 1: are the co-equal branch of government and you have the
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  Speaker 1: responsibility to pursue what the Justice Department apparently is failing
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  Speaker 1: to pursue. The other point I would make is having
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  Speaker 1: observed President Trump up close and personal for a number
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  Speaker 1: of years now, since I ran against him, he has
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  Speaker 1: a tell. He has a behavioral tell. Whenever he's worried
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  Speaker 1: about being found out himself, he accuses somebody else of
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  Speaker 1: doing what he's actually doing. And it's just a pattern
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  Speaker 1: with him. So it's no surprise to me that all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, what he promised in his campaign to
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  Speaker 1: reveal everything about the files, and then when his people
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  Speaker 1: began looking in the files and realizing how potentially incriminating
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  Speaker 1: they were of him, All of a sudden, that was
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  Speaker 1: no longer the focus. It was blaming Democrats, talking about
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  Speaker 1: a hoax, saying move on. There is nothing to see here.
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  Speaker 1: That's a typical pattern of President Trump's behavior, which speaks
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  Speaker 1: louder than all the words that he speaks and all
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  Speaker 1: of the true social posts that he makes. He clearly
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  Speaker 1: knows what he did. He knows what others did because remember,
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  Speaker 1: one of the emails that has come out recently is
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  Speaker 1: he called the police chief of Palm Beach at the
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  Speaker 1: time Epstein was arrested, according to the reporting to say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so glad you got him. I'm so glad you're
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  Speaker 1: stopping him. Well, how would he know that? How would
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  Speaker 1: he know that? So there is so much to be
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  Speaker 1: uncovered there rather than being covered up. And it really,
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  Speaker 1: in addition to the specific information that could be gotten
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  Speaker 1: and accountability that could be achieved, it would restore trust.
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  Speaker 1: The American people are not done. They're watching this. They're
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  Speaker 1: seeing this. They're following this. And it's just one more
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  Speaker 1: example of us not doing the kind of work that
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  Speaker 1: would build trust in finding out the truth, not just
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  Speaker 1: for the victims and survivors, but for the American public. Question,
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  Speaker 1: I just have a couple quick follow-up questions. Howard Lutnick
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  Speaker 1: recently went so far as to lie about his close
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  Speaker 1: connection with Jeffrey Epstein, but the truth came out with
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  Speaker 1: the release of the files. Secretary Clinton, is Howard Lutnick
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  Speaker 1: still employed as Secretary of Commerce in the Trump administration? Answer,
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  Speaker 1: as far as I know, no. Question, Secretary Clinton. In
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  Speaker 1: your opinion, why has Donald Trump ignored these other prominent
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  Speaker 1: figures who had close ties to Epstein? Answer, I can't
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  Speaker 1: speculate on that, Congressman. I think it's a worthwhile question
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  Speaker 1: to ask, and I think it certainly should be asked
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  Speaker 1: by this committee. Question, and lastly, in light of everything,
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  Speaker 1: not just what I think was an embarrassing leak earlier,
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  Speaker 1: do you believe your deposition today is a good faith exercise? Answer,
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  Speaker 1: I can't conclude that. I think all the information, such
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  Speaker 1: as it is, that I could have been delivered and
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  Speaker 1: a sworn statement could have been delivered. So I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to speculate about the committee's intentions here, but a
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  Speaker 1: former member of this committee, someone with whom I doubt
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  Speaker 1: I have very much in common, Marjorie Taylor Greene, said
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  Speaker 1: that Trump put pressure on Bondi not to release all
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  Speaker 1: the files. And if I recall, she was one of
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  Speaker 1: the votes for the Transparency Act. And she and others,
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  Speaker 1: including other members of this committee, were hauled into the
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  Speaker 1: White House and taken to the woodshed. and so I
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  Speaker 1: believe she may be a source of information about her
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  Speaker 1: own experience demonstrating clearly what this White House does, not
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  Speaker 1: want the Justice Department to release the files that might
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  Speaker 1: in any way incriminate President Trump. Question, thank you, Madam Secretary.
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  Speaker 1: Now the next person up, no name again. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for being here, Madam Secretary. Some of this
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  Speaker 1: was briefly touched upon, but as you know, There's wide
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  Speaker 1: speculation among the public that Jeffrey Epstein may have been
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  Speaker 1: affiliated with domestic intelligence agencies and services. Alex Acosta, for example.
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of Labor and the first Trump administration allegedly said
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  Speaker 1: that Epstein belonged to intelligence. We know that Acosta has
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  Speaker 1: denied the statement, but it nonetheless raises questions about Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: You obviously served in a variety of high-sensitive positions, allowing
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  Speaker 1: you to access some of our nation's most sensitive and
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  Speaker 1: secretive information. either during or after your time in government?
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  Speaker 1: Were you ever made aware of Jeffrey Epstein having any
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  Speaker 1: kind of relationship directly or indirectly with the United States
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  Speaker 1: Intelligence Agency or services like the CIA? Answer, I was not,
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  Speaker 1: but obviously I served in the Senate and I don't
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  Speaker 1: recall anything like that ever being presented. I was on
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  Speaker 1: the Armed Services Committee, so perhaps there might have been
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  Speaker 1: a mention if there was any relevance. And in the
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  Speaker 1: State Department, I don't recall any information like that at all. Question,
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  Speaker 1: and were you ever made aware of Glenn Maxwell having
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  Speaker 1: any kind of relationship with an intelligence agency or service
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  Speaker 1: in the United States? Answer, I was not. Question, thank you. Now,
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  Speaker 1: during the committee's deposition of former Attorney General Bill Barr,
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  Speaker 1: he indicated that many American businessmen who have foreign contacts
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  Speaker 1: sometimes will talk to intelligence agencies and provide information to them.
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  Speaker 1: Are you aware of Jeffrey Epstein having these less formal
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  Speaker 1: interactions with the CEI or any other domestic intelligence? Answer,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not aware of any intelligence connection of Jeffrey Epstein
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  Speaker 1: at all. Question, and that applies to foreign intelligence as well? Answer,
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  Speaker 1: yes it does. But I do think, Congresswoman, as I
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  Speaker 1: said earlier, your questions are well taken. There are so
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  Speaker 1: many threads of this investigation that need to be followed.
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  Speaker 1: You are talking about the intelligence, we have talked about
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  Speaker 1: the sexual abuses, and we should also be following the money.
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  Speaker 1: One of my former colleagues, Senator Wyden, is trying to
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  Speaker 1: get out of the Treasury Department records about Jeffrey Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: financial transactions. The Congress should, and this committee certainly should,
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  Speaker 1: subpoena the Treasury Secretary for the information that Senator Wyden
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  Speaker 1: has compiled. In my experience in the Senate, Senator Wyden
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  Speaker 1: is a thoughtful commissar. investigator. If he says that there's
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  Speaker 1: something there, I would take it to the bank, and
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  Speaker 1: so follow the money. Follow these foreign involvement intelligence potentials.
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  Speaker 1: Whether they're true or not, I don't know. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: follow whatever leads you can get out of the emails
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  Speaker 1: and other information that are being put forth by either
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  Speaker 1: DOJ or the Epstein estate, or anybody else, on the
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  Speaker 1: crimes that he committed. Question, thank you. That brings us
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  Speaker 1: to the issue of transparency, which is related to what
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  Speaker 1: you just said. You and President Clinton have been very
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  Speaker 1: clear about your desire to testify publicly before this committee.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, on February 5th, 2026, you posted on social media,
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  Speaker 1: if you want this fight, at Representative James Comer, let's
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  Speaker 1: have it in public. You love to talk about transparency.
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  Speaker 1: There is nothing more transparent than a public hearing with
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  Speaker 1: cameras on. Secretary Clinton, why is it important for you
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  Speaker 1: to testify before this committee in a public setting? Well,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, I believe in public testimony. I believe
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  Speaker 1: that the public has a right to know what its
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  Speaker 1: elected members of Congress are investigating and legislating. Having served
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  Speaker 1: for eight years, I think it's useful as a member
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  Speaker 1: to do a hearing in public because you're going to
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  Speaker 1: learn things by the coverage of it, by the response
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  Speaker 1: that you get from people. This hearing, if it were
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  Speaker 1: in public, maybe somebody, your questions about intelligence, Maybe somebody
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  Speaker 1: watching it would have said, oh my gosh, I just
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  Speaker 1: remembered having a conversation with Foreign Minister X or Prime
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  Speaker 1: Minister Y, and that person mentioned Jeffrey Epstein. Most people
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  Speaker 1: are not going to look at the video, they're going
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  Speaker 1: to read the transcript, but they will follow a live
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  Speaker 1: public hearing, so I think it actually enhances the work
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  Speaker 1: that those of us who have been privileged to serve
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  Speaker 1: are doing and can do. So to me, it's just
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  Speaker 1: an absolute prerequisite for doing any kind of legislative and
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  Speaker 1: investigative work as effectively as possible by doing it in public. Question,
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  Speaker 1: and did you know that the photograph would be photographed today? Answer, no. Question,
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  Speaker 1: and is that all part of what you understood about
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  Speaker 1: the terms of that agreement for today? Answer, well, I
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  Speaker 1: confess that I had some concerns about whether the majority
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  Speaker 1: on the committee would treat me fairly and would fairly
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  Speaker 1: convey what I say and what I did and how
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  Speaker 1: I looked and how I responded. So yeah, I had
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  Speaker 1: a concern. And when we learned about the photo being taken,
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  Speaker 1: not by a staff member, but by a member, it
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  Speaker 1: was shocking and very disappointing. So if it were in public,
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  Speaker 1: we wouldn't have that debate. Everybody could see the same
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  Speaker 1: thing that the congresswoman saw. I'm sitting there here. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I'm smiling. Sometimes I'm frowning. Sometimes I look good. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I don't. That's all in public. Everybody can have the
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  Speaker 1: same view rather than an angled photo and all the
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  Speaker 1: rest of it. So it was disappointing. And I regret
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  Speaker 1: that it happened and violated your rules. but that's not
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  Speaker 1: the real concern I have. The real concern is get busy.
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  Speaker 1: Focus on the people that have something to tell you,
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  Speaker 1: that can tell you about intelligence, money, crimes, and get
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  Speaker 1: them before you, and whenever possible, do it in public.
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  Speaker 1: Alright folks, we're going to wrap up right there, and
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  Speaker 1: in the next episode dealing with the topic we're going
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  Speaker 1: to pick up where we left off. All the information
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  Speaker 1: that goes with this episode can be found in the
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  Speaker 1: description box.