00:00I don't know how many times I had to say I did not know Jeffrey Epstein.
00:04Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're breaking down everything you need to know
00:08about Hillary Clinton's February 2026 deposition on her role in the Epstein Files.
00:13But I think we have a very important interest and curiosity about
00:17what specifically the co-conspirators had a role in all this, right?
00:23The procedural circus and political theater.
00:25Chappaqua today, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is sitting for a high-profile deposition
00:31as part of the House Oversight Committee's investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
00:36The proceedings, however, were put on hold for a short time today
00:39after a photo of the former first lady from inside the room was linked,
00:45and Mrs. Clinton demanded that the proceedings be made public and open to reporters.
00:51The headline on February 26, 2026, wasn't a breakthrough,
00:55but a security breach.
00:56Less than an hour into the session at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center,
01:00the deposition was halted.
01:02Representative Lauren Boebert, a Republican from Colorado,
01:05had allegedly snapped a photo of Hillary Clinton and sent it to influencer Benny Johnson,
01:09who posted it to X with the caption, quote,
01:12Clinton does not look happy.
01:13Boebert later mockingly told reporters she simply, quote,
01:16admired Clinton's blue suit and wanted to share it.
01:20Representative Boebert, can you talk to us about why you sent that picture?
01:23I just returned to my hotel room and installed a bleach-fit software
01:27and took a hammer to my iPad, so I guess in regards to any photos, I do not recall.
01:33You don't remember saying the picture of Clinton?
01:35Who's the kid?
01:36By leaking a private proceeding for a social media stunt,
01:39the committee handed Clinton the evidence she needed to argue the probe
01:42prioritized performative optics over justice for Epstein's victims.
01:46Her opening statement, released simultaneously on social media, set the tone for the day.
01:51She blasted the inquiry as a, quote,
01:53abdication of duty and a, quote,
01:56partisan exercise designed to distract from the 2026 election cycle.
02:00Online, no comment yet from Republican leadership,
02:03Democrats saying that that violated committee rules.
02:06Again, this is expected to go about another hour or so.
02:09A videotape of the proceeding and then a transcript is scheduled to be released at some point.
02:13It is unclear when.
02:14And of course, former President Bill Clinton will appear here tomorrow.
02:18The Ask My Husband wall.
02:20I would just say one of the things I learned today is if you really have specific questions
02:25about the Clinton Global Initiative or the relationship between the Clintons
02:29and Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, you got to ask Bill Clinton.
02:33And that's a great point.
02:35The number of times that she said,
02:37I don't know, you'll have to ask my husband was more than a dozen.
02:41Though Hillary was in the chair for nearly seven hours,
02:44the shadow of her husband, former President Bill Clinton, dominated the room.
02:48Chairman James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky,
02:51confirmed to a crush of national media that the former Secretary of State
02:55deferred to her husband more than a dozen times.
02:57Her repeated refrain, quote,
02:59you'll have to ask my husband, became the defining motif of the day.
03:03This strategy effectively turned Hillary into a defensive buffer.
03:06Since her name is virtually absent from the Lolita Express flight logs,
03:10she was a legal dead end for investigators.
03:12It was disappointing that they refused to hold a public hearing,
03:18so I wouldn't have to be out here characterizing it for you.
03:22You could have seen it for yourself.
03:25We had asked for that.
03:27We think it would have been better for the committee
03:30and its efforts to gather whatever information they are seeking.
03:36Comer noted that the list of questions for Bill's February 27th deposition
03:40grew significantly based on her deflections.
03:42By the time she left the building, the narrative was clear.
03:45Hillary was merely the opening act for the former president,
03:48who faced far more scrutiny regarding the 27 documented flights found in the original Epstein files.
03:54I don't want to disclose too much of what was said,
03:57but most of the questions that we asked about the Clinton Global Initiative,
04:01which were very specific questions,
04:03some of them were backed by emails and other documents that have been released by the Department of Justice,
04:08she said that she was a senator and you would have to ask her husband that tomorrow.
04:13So we have a lot of questions for her husband tomorrow,
04:16and I'm confident that deposition will last even longer than this one.
04:20Conspiracies versus counter targets.
04:22It then got, at the end, quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs
04:30and a series of questions about Pizzagate,
04:34one of the most vile, bogus conspiracy theories that was propagated on the Internet.
04:41The deposition took a bizarre turn when the questioning drifted
04:45into what Clinton called, quote, quite unusual territory.
04:48She told reporters that she was grilled on UFOs,
04:52contextualized by recent Trump-era declassification efforts,
04:55and the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
04:58Clinton slammed these inquiries as, quote,
05:00vile, bogus conspiracy theories that had no place in a serious investigation.
05:05Ranking member Robert Garcia, a Democrat from California,
05:08emerged from the closed-door session to echo her frustration.
05:11Labeling the GOP's focus a, quote, fever dream.
05:14Let me just add that as it relates to Secretary Clinton, who's here today,
05:18she has been very clear she's never met Jeffrey Epstein.
05:22We have no evidence of her having any interactions with Mr. Epstein.
05:26And so I think that's important to note as we walk into this deposition.
05:30Garcia used the moment to pivot, arguing that by subpoenaing a former president,
05:34the committee had set a, quote, new precedent.
05:36He demanded that President Donald Trump be deposed immediately
05:39to answer for his own documented ties to Epstein.
05:42This turned the hearing into a partisan proxy war,
05:45with each side accusing the other of weaponizing the investigation to protect their own leaders.
05:50President Trump has answered hundreds, if not thousands, of questions from you all about Epstein.
05:56And I think he's been very transparent in releasing the documents.
06:00We expect hopefully more documents to come in.
06:04And we're still assessing the three million plus documents that we have.
06:07The dead end.
06:08I think it is fair to say that the vast majority of people who had contact with him
06:14before his criminal pleas in 08 were like most people.
06:22They did not know what he was doing.
06:26And I think that that is exactly what my husband will testify to tomorrow.
06:31Despite the months of tension and the threat of criminal contempt,
06:34the substantive results were a total stalemate.
06:37Clinton's testimony was a wall of consistent denials.
06:41When pressed on Ghislaine Maxwell,
06:42Clinton provided a unique detail to minimize their connection.
06:46She testified that Maxwell attended Chelsea Clinton's 2010 wedding
06:50only as a plus one to a guest, not as a personal invitee.
06:53Why was Ghislaine Maxwell invited to your daughter Chelsea Clinton's wedding in 2010?
07:00She'd already been mentioned in a civil lawsuit by Virginia Dufresne before that.
07:06Jeffrey Epstein had already been convicted before that.
07:09She came as the plus one, the guest of someone who was invited.
07:14This distinction was critical in framing their relationship as that of a, quote,
07:18casual acquaintance rather than a confidant.
07:20For a session built on years of public speculation and the January 2026 document releases,
07:26the total lack of smoking guns left the committee with zero new evidence of criminal activity,
07:31effectively boxing in the investigation to Hillary Clinton's stated lack of personal knowledge.
07:36The Democratic lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee have already made clear.
07:40They've come out and spoken with reporters and essentially said that they have yet to learn
07:44anything new from the former Secretary of State about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and their
07:51crimes, saying that, you know, somebody that hasn't actually ever met Jeffrey Epstein can't possibly
07:57give us the information that we are looking for that is new, that could help our investigation into Epstein.
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08:19The big picture, high impact, low yield.
08:22Saying, quote, if this committee is serious about learning the truth about Epstein's trafficking
08:26crimes, it would not rely on press gaggles to get answers from our current president on his
08:30involvement.
08:31It would ask him directly under oath about the tens of thousands of times he shows up in
08:37the Epstein files.
08:38The ultimate takeaway from the February 2026 Chappaqua depositions is the staggering mismatch
08:43between the media circus and the factual payoff.
08:45It was an historic collision.
08:47A former first lady, secretary of state and Democratic presidential nominee compelled
08:52to testify about the century's most toxic scandal.
08:55Yet it produced almost no verifiable new data.
08:58There's something about this administration's attitude toward this, which I think really leads
09:06us to conclude they have something to hide.
09:08We don't.
09:09We have been willing to say whatever we know.
09:13We've even done it under oath.
09:16The story was less about Epstein's crimes and more what it revealed about modern oversight.
09:21Between the Boebert photo leak, the UFO questions, and the Ask My Husband refrains, the week
09:27served as a case study in how investigative rigor is often sacrificed for public spectacle.
09:32For the public, the takeaway was clear.
09:34In 2026, the investigation's media presence has become the only measurable output, while
09:40the truth remains buried under layers of partisan messaging and procedural drama.
09:44So, we're seeing accountability, but we have a desire to see a lot more accountability.
09:51We want to get the answers, and hopefully the next two days will be a step in the right
09:55direction on our investigation.
09:57Which moment from the deposition shocked you the most?
09:59Be sure to let us know in the comments.
10:01So, let us know in the comments.
10:10And on the right side?
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