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where deposition_id = 2
588 records
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| 1294 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 0 | SPEAKER_03 | 8.3 | 77.78 | All right, we will go on the record. This is a deposition of former President William Jefferson Clinton conducted by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform under the authority granted to it pursuant to House Rule 10. Accordingly, House Rule 10 grants the committee broad jurisdiction for the committee to conduct investigations of any matter at any time. On July 23, 2025, the Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform voted by voice … |
| 1295 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 1 | SPEAKER_03 | 81.22 | 122.88 | I will enter as Exhibit 2 the correspondence between Chairman Comer and counsel for President Clinton and Secretary. This correspondence includes the following letters. October 6, 2025, Letter from David E. Kendall to Chairman Comer and Ranking Member Garcia. October 22, 2025, Letter from Chairman Comer to David E. Kendall. November 3, 2025, Letter from David E. Kendall to Chairman Comer and Ranking Member Garcia. November 21, 2025, Letter from Chairman Comer to David E. Kendall. December 10, 20… |
| 1296 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 2 | SPEAKER_03 | 124.7 | 195.78 | November 4, 2025, Letter from Chairman Comer to Chairman�도 David E. Kendall. December 8, 2025, Letter from Chairman whim. November 3, 2025, Letter from Chairman потребEM HB 6% to Chairman Comer to Ranking Member Garcia. November 5, 2025, Letter from Chairman Comer to Chairman Gustan Comer. combining Elin v. N Series, A-7. seguro a moje . members of and raising reacts to the remaining subpoena. ASS?!? I. and david e kendall to chairman comer january 13th 2026 letter from william j clinton and sec… |
| 1297 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 3 | SPEAKER_03 | 197.8 | 236.58 | i will mark as exhibit four the notice dated december 16th 2025 for a deposition of president clinton to occur on january 13th 2026. president clinton did not appear for his deposition on january 13th 2026 i will enter as exhibit 5 the transcript for the deposition that president clinton failed to appear for the committee noticed a committee business meeting on january 14 2026 to consider for president william j clinton held on january 21st 2026 i will mark that notice as exhibit 6. |
| 1298 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 4 | SPEAKER_03 | 238.6 | 369.62 | i will mark as exhibit 7 the contempt report for president william j clinton voted favorably out of the committee on oversight and government reform on january 21st 2026 i will mark as exhibit 8 the final roll call vote sheet on favorably reporting the contempt report of President William J. Clinton out of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on January 21, 2026. The Committee noticed today's deposition on February 19, 2026. I will enter the notice for this deposition as Exhibit 9. I… |
| 1299 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 5 | SPEAKER_03 | 371.32 | 418.38 | Can the witness please state his name for the record? William Jefferson Clinton. Thank you. My name is Jack Emmer, and I am the Chief Counsel of Investigations for Chairman Comer. Under the Committee on Oversight and Government Reforms Rules, you are allowed to have counsel present to advise you during this deposition. Do you have counsel representing you in a personal capacity present with you today? I do. Will counsel please identify themselves? David Kendall, Williams & Connolly, LLP. Katheri… |
| 1300 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 6 | SPEAKER_03 | 423.28 | 442.64 | James Comer, Chairman of the Committee from Kentucky. Congresswoman Nancy Mace, South Carolina. Eric Burleson from Missouri. James Comer, Chairman of the Committee from Kentucky. Congressman John LaVoie, Virginia 5. Congresswoman Ana Paulina Luna from Florida's 13th District. William Timmons, South Carolina. William Grover from Wisconsin. Ranking Member Garcia, California. |
| 1301 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 7 | SPEAKER_03 | 444.28 | 471.8 | Congresswoman Melanie Sandsbury, New Mexico. Congresswoman Suhas Sibramani, Virginia 11. Congresswoman Emily Randall, Washington State. Congresswoman Yalma Nsari, Arizona 3rd. Congressman Maxwell Frost, Florida 10. Congressman Wesley Bell, Missouri 11. Congressman James Walker, Georgia 11. Congressman James Walker, Georgia 11. Congresswoman Rose Connick, California 17. Congresswoman Rose Connick, California 17. Lauren Boebert, Colorado's 4th District. |
| 1302 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 8 | SPEAKER_03 | 473.62 | 504.24 | Thank you. For the record, starting with the majority staff, can the additional staff members please introduce themselves with their name, title, and affiliation? Billy Grant, Deputy Chief Counsel for Investigations for Chairman Comer. Peter Spector, Deputy Director of Oversight for Chairman Comer. Peter Spector, Deputy Director of Oversight for Chairman Comer. Daniel Ashworth, General Counsel. Daniel Ashworth, General Counsel for Chairman Comer. Ryan Giacchetti, Chief Counsel for Chairman Comer… |
| 1303 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 9 | SPEAKER_03 | 505.92 | 512.28 | Wilson Sutherland, Counsel for Chairman Comer. Emily Firealden, Counsel for Chairman Comer. |
| 1304 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 10 | SPEAKER_03 | 514.6 | 517.14 | Mark Moran, Staff Director for Chairman Comer. |
| 1305 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 11 | SPEAKER_03 | 518.9 | 525.16 | Far Olga M Gothar, Communications Director for chairman Comer. Austin Habker, Communications Director for chairman Comer. Cle venir, Deputy Staff Director for Chairman Comer. |
| 1306 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 12 | SPEAKER_03 | 534.62 | 683.86 | Thank you all. President Clinton, before we begin, I would like to go over the ground rules for this deposition. The questioning will proceed in rounds. The majority will ask questions for an hour. And then the向ings are 6 to 5 an hour. And the The minority will have an opportunity to ask questions for an hour, if they choose. To the extent members have questions for the witness, they will be propounded during their side's respective rounds. The clock will stop if you need to confer with counsel.… |
| 1307 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 13 | SPEAKER_03 | 686.82 | 722.4 | This includes both knowingly providing false testimony, but also stating that you do not recall or remember something when in fact you do. Do you understand? Yes. Furthermore, you cannot tell half-truths or exclude information necessary to make statements accurate. You are required to provide all information that would make your response truthful. A deliberate failure to disclose information can constitute a false statement. Do you understand? I do. Is there any reason you are unable to provide … |
| 1308 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 14 | SPEAKER_00 | 724.6 | 760.94 | Please note that if you wish to assert a privilege over any statement today, that assertion must comply with the rules of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Pursuant to that, Committee Rule 16 states, For the Chair to consider assertions of privilege over testimony or statements, witnesses or entities must clearly state the specific privilege being asserted and the reason for the assertion on or without it. ayı crawledы on a report issued by the Committee on Oversight and Governme… |
| 1309 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 15 | SPEAKER_03 | 763.54 | 848.18 | 遭ер fabricated by Chaer committee may seek a ruling from the chair if the chair overrules any such objection the witness shall be ordered to answer if the witness continues to refuse to answer a question despite being ordered to do so the witness may be subject to sanction do you understand yes ordinarily we take a five minute break at the end of each hour of questioning but if you need a longer break or a break before that please let us know and we will be happy to accommodate however to the ex… |
| 1310 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 16 | SPEAKER_01 | 849.96 | 955.5 | you soundly solemnly declare in a firm under the penalty of perjury that the testimony you're about to give will be not volts or nothing do do you have any questions before we begin no I have a comment before we again please mr. chairman I want to start out by saying as you know yesterday there was a photo released and I appreciate you assuring and admonishing the committee and all of us of our obligations obviously we want to ensure that that doesn't happen again we obviously experienced a numb… |
| 1311 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 17 | SPEAKER_01 | 957.34 | 961.9 | mr president do you wish to provide an opening statement i do it's brief |
| 1312 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 18 | SPEAKER_01 | 964.24 | 973.2 | first of all good morning and welcome to all of you to our hometown i appreciate you coming here |
| 1313 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 19 | SPEAKER_01 | 975.6 | 979.52 | i'm here today basically for two reasons first of all |
| 1314 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 20 | SPEAKER_01 | 981.26 | 990.38 | i love my country and the constitution and i believe america was built on the idea that no one is above the law |
| 1315 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 21 | SPEAKER_01 | 993.22 | 999.98 | especially presidents and that we should all live by the same set of rules shaped by the constitution |
| 1316 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 22 | SPEAKER_01 | 1002.34 | 1006.9 | democracy requires every person to play their part and i hope that by being here today |
| 1317 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 23 | SPEAKER_01 | 1008.52 | 1029.88 | we can bring ourselves a little further away from the brink and back to being a country where we can disagree civilly and search for the truth and justice and if that outweighs the partisan urge for spectacle and point scoring i will do my part and i hope you'll do yours |
| 1318 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 24 | SPEAKER_01 | 1031.84 | 1047.46 | the second reason i'm here is that the girls and women whose lives jeffrey epstein destroyed deserve not just justice but healing they've been waiting too long for both through my brief acquaintance with jeffrey epstein |
| 1319 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 25 | SPEAKER_01 | 1049.34 | 1056.62 | though it ended years before his crimes came to light and though i never witnessed during our limited interactions |
| 1320 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 26 | SPEAKER_02 | 1058.52 | 1059.62 | of what was going on |
| 1321 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 27 | SPEAKER_01 | 1062.76 | 1065.68 | i'm here to offer what little i know |
| 1322 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 28 | SPEAKER_03 | 1067.52 | 1071.74 | so i can do my part to prevent something like this from happening again |
| 1323 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 29 | SPEAKER_03 | 1074.8 | 1077.14 | i have to say one personal thing |
| 1324 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 30 | SPEAKER_01 | 1078.7 | 1151.06 | since hillary came in yesterday she had nothing to do with jeffrey of steel nothing there's a picture of us both hands with him in a photo line in 1993 at a fundraiser for the White House Historical Association. I don't know how it is under President Trump, but when I was there it was about the most non-political operation you can imagine. There were people who loved the White House, who were interested in it, would give a little money every year to do things that needed doing around the house, … |
| 1325 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 31 | SPEAKER_01 | 1153.26 | 1169.86 | understand what the oath is. I have to be honest with you. You know, I'll be 80 years old if I live to the next birthday. I don't remember everything that happened 24 years ago, but I do remember some things, and I will tell you what I remember as best I can. |
| 1326 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 32 | SPEAKER_01 | 1171.84 | 1232.82 | We, each of us, how the victims, nothing less than the truth and accuracy, we owe that to the American people. And I actually hope that you will be able to come up with some suggestions that will reduce human trafficking and especially focus on underage girls. I hope you'll be able to do that. I know that the the Hilary talked a little yesterday about what the State Department does and what she pushed on human trafficking and girls when she was Secretary of State. We had to deal with it, and in … |
| 1327 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 33 | SPEAKER_01 | 1236.38 | 1269.8 | We were working there trying to stop deaths from diarrhea for young children. It was interesting, these guys were cold and calculated, they said, oh you don't have to leave because the kids you're helping are younger than the ones we want, they have to be about nine before they're worth anything to us. So I... This is really important, and I will do what I can to make whatever contribution I can. Thank you. |
| 1328 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 34 | SPEAKER_02 | 1271.52 | 1272.28 | Thank you. |
| 1329 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 35 | SPEAKER_01 | 1275.08 | 1279.46 | The time reads 11.28 and the majority's time will begin now. |
| 1330 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 36 | SPEAKER_01 | 1284.7 | 1298.02 | Mr. President, thank you for agreeing to testify today and for your years of service. I want to start from the beginning. When did you first meet Jeffrey Epstein? |
| 1331 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 37 | SPEAKER_01 | 1306.16 | 1343.6 | Well, I will try in this testimony, and I will point it out when I'm aware there's a picture or something that predates it. There's a picture of him shaking hands in the White House Historical Association reception. That was in 1993, but I'm not aware of that. I first remember meeting him when I got on his airplane to take the first trip with my foundation in, I think, 2002, whenever it was. |
| 1332 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 38 | SPEAKER_01 | 1348.68 | 1360.06 | And to be clear, do you have any reason to believe that you may have met Mr. Epstein prior to becoming President of the United States? Before I became President, no. |
| 1333 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 39 | SPEAKER_01 | 1363.58 | 1373.04 | And you mentioned that your first memory of interacting with Mr. Epstein was on your first trip. Which trip specifically? |
| 1334 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 40 | SPEAKER_03 | 1377.0 | 1394.0 | I'm not sure which one it was. Which one was the first? We had... I took all our parts for a family trip. Five trips to Asia and Africa, and one to Northern Europe on Mr. Epstein's airplane. |
| 1335 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 41 | SPEAKER_01 | 1397.74 | 1434.3 | And once, when I was in Florida, I was offered a ride back to New York. But I wasn't there. It was just coincidental that he was there, and I think that was fairly early in the process. But I don't remember exactly. I just know that I did. I took one flight back from Florida to New York, and all were part of several other, I think, four or five trips to Africa, Asia, and one to Northern Europe. |
| 1336 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 42 | SPEAKER_01 | 1437.18 | 1445.38 | And I want to make sure the record is clear. Is it your testimony today that you have no independent recollection whatsoever of the circumstances of when you first met Mr. Epstein? |
| 1337 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 43 | SPEAKER_01 | 1448.92 | 1459.66 | Objection asked and answered. You can answer again. Yes, I do have a recollection of when I remember meeting him before this trip. I mean on this trip when I took his plane. |
| 1338 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 44 | SPEAKER_01 | 1464.64 | 1475.3 | Mr. President, we're going to discuss more specifics later. But for the record, can you briefly describe the nature and extent of your relationship with Mr. Epstein? |
| 1339 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 45 | SPEAKER_03 | 1483.1 | 1564.04 | Well, sometime after I left the White House, either in late 2001 or earlyish in 2002, I received a call from Larry Summers, who had been on my economic team and was later Secretary of the Treasury, and was then President of Harvard. And he said that he was calling because a man named Jeffrey Epstein, who had made a substantial commitment of several million dollars, I think it was ten, but whatever it was, to brain research, and that he was an information-hungry person, and he wanted... to spend … |
| 1340 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 46 | SPEAKER_03 | 1566.48 | 1579.22 | And I should back up and say... When I left office, we had done all the preliminary work to set up the Global Fund on HCB Malaria, but it was not yet funded. |
| 1341 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 47 | SPEAKER_01 | 1582.16 | 1590.84 | And there were other instruments... and institutions that were later funded, including... President... |
| 1342 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 48 | SPEAKER_01 | 1593.18 | 1676.18 | yet been funded. There were only 200,000 people in the entire developing world who had AIDS medicine. Most of them in Brazil, which had a big drug operation on its own, and in Thailand, which also had its own drug population. In Africa, there were like 30,000 people or something, just next to no people. And they were dying like flies. And I thought we had found a way to drastically drive the price down. And that if we could drive the price down, we could, and empower people to administer the med… |
| 1343 | Bill Clinton — House Oversight Committee 2 | 49 | SPEAKER_01 | 1678.84 | 1682.94 | Mr. President, when did your relationship with Mr. Epstein end? |