00:00I think everyone knows by now Bill Clinton did not show up and I think it's important to note
00:05that this subpoena was voted on in a bipartisan manner by this committee. This wasn't something
00:12that I just issued as chairman of the committee. This was voted on by the entire committee in a
00:18unanimous vote of the House Oversight Committee to subpoena former President Clinton and former
00:24Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Now Hillary Clinton's supposed to show up tomorrow. We'll see
00:28what happens there but with respect to the former president he did not show up today. One reason I
00:35think most Americans want President Clinton to answer some questions is because he visited the
00:43White House, Jeffrey Epstein visited the White House 17 times while Bill Clinton was president. I've been
00:48in Congress nine years. I think I've been to the White House nine times in nine years. Epstein was
00:54in the White House double the amount of time that I was under one president. And then we know that Bill
01:00Clinton flew on Epstein's plane somewhere around 27 times after the presidency. So no one's accusing
01:09Bill Clinton of anything any wrongdoing. We just have questions and that's why the Democrats voted along
01:14with Republicans to subpoena Bill Clinton. Not a single Democrat showed up today. Not a single Democrat. The
01:21ones that have press conferences on the Capitol steps and talk about how they're trying to get
01:26justice for the victims and all that. It just seems like they only care about questioning Republicans. And we've
01:34had we've had a former Trump cabinet secretary Acosta in for a grilling. We had Bill Barr former attorney general in for a grilling. But for whatever reason President Clinton didn't show up and the Democrats on the committee don't seem to have a have a problem.
01:52This is the amount of preparation that went into this deposition today. These were the questions that we were prepared to ask. We've communicated with President Clinton's legal team for months now.
02:04Giving them opportunity after opportunity to come in to give us a date. And they continue to delay, delay, delay to the point where we had no idea whether they're going to show up today or not. I think it's very disappointing as a result of Bill Clinton not showing up for his lawful subpoena, which again was voted on unanimously by the committee in a bipartisan manner. We will move next week in the House Oversight Committee markup to hold former President Clinton in
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