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00:02Bill Clinton will testify Friday before a House committee investigating Jeffrey Epstein,
00:07becoming the first former U.S. president compelled to give congressional testimony,
00:11according to Bloomberg. Lawmakers will depose him behind closed doors in Chappaqua, New York.
00:17Bill Clinton said he parted ways with Epstein years before Epstein died in a New York jail
00:21cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
00:25Photos of Bill Clinton appeared in the first tranche of Epstein files released by the Justice
00:30Department in December, including images of him in a hot tub and swimming with Ghislaine Maxwell.
00:36Trump and both Clintons have denied knowledge of Epstein's criminal activities.
00:40The Clintons agreed to appear before a House committee investigating Epstein after Republican
00:45lawmakers threatened to hold them in contempt of Congress if they refused to testify.
00:49They said they had offered to submit sworn statements like others who were subpoenaed,
00:54but the Republican-led panel rejected that option.
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