00:00It was 1992. Bill Clinton was running for president, and his campaign was rocked by accusations of marital infidelity.
00:07In a now-famous 60 Minutes interview, Hillary Clinton vehemently defended her husband.
00:12You know, I'm not sitting here as some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette.
00:16I'm sitting here because I love him.
00:19More than three decades later, Hillary Clinton is still standing by her man.
00:23She reiterated her faith in the former president when asked by a reporter if she was confident in her husband's
00:28testimony,
00:29which he will provide Friday.
00:31This following her closed-door deposition in a New York suburb after months of back and forth with the Republican
00:37-controlled House Oversight Committee.
00:38I think it is fair to say that the vast majority of people who had contact with him before his
00:46criminal pleas in 2008
00:50were like most people. They did not know what he was doing.
00:55And I think that that is exactly what my husband will testify to tomorrow.
01:01Though her husband flew on Epstein's jet and appeared in photos with him, Hillary underscored that she did not know
01:06him.
01:08In her opening statement published on Twitter, she said that a serious investigation into Epstein's sex trafficking
01:13would ask President Trump to testify about the tens of thousands of times his name appears in the files.
01:19Democrats on the committee have called on the Justice Department to follow the law
01:23and release all of the three million pages of files that have not been made public,
01:28including newly discovered omissions of allegations that Donald Trump sexually assaulted a minor.
01:34Meanwhile, the Republican chairman of the committee remained unconvinced.
01:37And I think that I think this was a productive deposition today.
01:42I think we we learned a lot.
01:45There were a lot of questions that we asked that we weren't satisfied with the answers that we that we
01:51got.
01:52But we will continue to move forward.
01:54The Clintons offered to issue sworn statements and to testify publicly,
01:58but were rebuffed by Republicans facing contempt charges if they refused.
02:02Bill Clinton will testify in a deposition Friday,
02:05becoming the first former U.S. president to be compelled to testify in a congressional investigation against his will.
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