00:00I didn't agree.
00:00I just, whatever, you know, we're going to come in and do the deposition.
00:05That's what the contempt was over, and that's what the subpoena was.
00:09So I think everyone knows the Clintons have agreed to the terms.
00:13They issued a statement last night, and they said they agreed to terms, and the story came out.
00:18I asked reporters, I said, what were the, then what's the date?
00:21And they said, well, we don't know yet.
00:22Well, that's a very important term, is the date.
00:25So I'm very pleased today that the terms were the rules of a standard deposition.
00:31So they're not going to be treated any differently than anyone else, and the dates will be in February, the next few weeks.
00:39So the contempt motion is still on the table.
00:43The contempt of Congress is for failing to show up.
00:46This will be their third date that we've given the Clintons, and three strikes and you're out.
00:52The votes are there for contempt.
00:54I think the Democrats, I think there are Democrats that will vote to hold him in contempt if he misses, if the Clintons miss this next date.
01:01So we're hopeful that they'll come in.
01:03We can ask questions I think every American and every curious reporter would have, and then we'll move on.
01:09So are you open to doing this in public hearing?
01:11We offer to do this in public also.
01:13Yeah.
01:13Look, it's going to be video.
01:15It's going to be the subpoena and the contempt was on a deposition.
01:22If we get to the deposition and there's something meaningful to have a hearing, if they still want some more oversight, then I think the members of my committee would love to have them in for a public hearing.
01:31So we're fine with that, but the issue here is the original subpoena and the contempt was on the deposition.
01:39So if they get to the depositions and they still want a public hearing, we'll try to do something because I think that, and I don't think it's any secret, depositions have historically been much more substantive than hearings.
01:51Hearings are, unfortunately, have become more of an entertainment thing.
01:55This is a serious investigation and it's bipartisan.
01:58And, again, I believe that there were going to be several Democrats that were going to vote to hold Clinton in contempt, but the ones that voted, many of the Democrats that voted for contempt in the committee called and said, if they come in in February, we want them, you know, one more chance and then we'll vote with them on the floor.
02:18So I've worked with the Democrats.
02:20We've worked for six months now with the Clintons, and I'm happy to say that I'm pretty confident they're going to come in.
02:26And if they don't, the contempt vote will be here.
02:28Mr. Chairman, Democrats are now saying that this is setting a precedent, that in the future, perhaps President Trump could be called to testify.
02:35Other presidents could be called to testify.
02:37What do you say to this argument about precedent?
02:38Well, look, you know, it could set a precedent.
02:41I think, you know, one of the things that we're talking about today, the video, the deposition will be videoed.
02:47That was never a thing until the Democrats set a precedent to video the January 6th deposition.
02:53So now there's a precedent to do videos.
02:55This isn't about helping President Trump.
02:58This isn't about protecting President Trump.
03:00This is about doing two things, what we've said all along, getting the truth to the American people about what happened with the whole Epstein saga.
03:10And secondly, how did the government fail the victims?
03:12That's the purpose of the whole investigation.
03:15And it's bipartisan.
03:16And hopefully the Clintons will hopefully have some information that will be helpful to us getting answers.
03:23You know, one question everybody has, how did Jeffrey Epstein accumulate so much wealth?
03:27And I don't know.
03:28I don't think anyone knows.
03:29I've read every story about the Epstein.
03:30So that and obviously the documents, the three million pages of documents we're going through.
03:36I know you all are going through.
03:37And we'll hopefully have had time in the next two weeks to have gone through all of those documents
03:43and see if there's any other questions that might be relevant to the Clintons.
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