00:00Most Americans want President Clinton to answer some questions is because he
00:05visited the White House, Jeffrey Epstein visited the White House 17 times while
00:11Bill Clinton was president.
00:12These were the questions that we were prepared to ask.
00:16We've communicated with President Clinton's legal team for months now,
00:21giving them opportunity after opportunity to come in, to give us a date.
00:26And they continue to delay, delay, delay to the point where we had no idea whether
00:31they're going to show up today or not.
00:33Well, I think everyone knows by now Bill Clinton did not show up.
00:37And I think it's important to note that this subpoena was voted on in a bipartisan
00:43manner by this committee.
00:44This wasn't something that I just issued as chairman of the committee.
00:49This was voted on by the entire committee in a unanimous vote of the House
00:53Oversight Committee to subpoena former President Clinton and former Secretary
00:58of State Hillary Clinton.
01:00Hillary Clinton's supposed to show up tomorrow.
01:01We'll see what happens there.
01:02But with respect to the former president, he did not show up today.
01:08One reason I think most Americans want President Clinton to answer some questions is because
01:15he visited the White House, Jeffrey Epstein visited the White House 17 times while Bill Clinton was president.
01:21I've been in Congress nine years.
01:24I think I've been to the White House nine times in nine years.
01:27Epstein was in the White House double the amount of time that I was under one president.
01:32And then we know that Bill Clinton flew on Epstein's plane somewhere around 27 times
01:39after the presidency.
01:41So no one's accusing Bill Clinton of anything, any wrongdoing.
01:44We just have questions.
01:45And that's why the Democrats voted along with Republicans to subpoena Bill Clinton.
01:50Not a single Democrat showed up today.
01:53Not a single Democrat.
01:54The ones that have press conferences on the Capitol steps and talk about how they're trying
01:59to get justice for the victims and all that.
02:01It just seems like they only care about questioning Republicans.
02:07And we've had, we've had a former Trump cabinet secretary, Acosta, in for a grilling.
02:13We had Bill Barr, former attorney general, in for a grilling.
02:18But for whatever reason, President Clinton didn't show up and the Democrats on the committee
02:23don't seem to have a problem.
02:25This is the amount of preparation that went into this deposition today.
02:30These were the questions that we were prepared to ask.
02:33We've communicated with President Clinton's legal team for months now, giving them opportunity
02:39after opportunity to come in, to give us a date.
02:44And they continue to delay, delay, delay to the point where we had no idea whether they're
02:49going to show up today or not.
02:50I think it's very disappointing.
02:52As a result of Bill Clinton not showing up for his lawful subpoena, which again was voted
02:58on unanimously by the committee in a bipartisan manner.
03:01We will move next week in the House Oversight Committee markup to hold former President
03:07Clinton in contempt of Congress.
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