00:01I just finished testifying in front of the House Oversight Committee.
00:06I did it for two reasons.
00:08First, I love my country, including our Constitution.
00:15And America was built on the idea that no person is above the law,
00:20even presidents, especially presidents,
00:24and that we should all live under the same set of rules.
00:28This kind of democracy requires every person to play their part.
00:33And I hope that by being there today,
00:35we can bring ourselves just a little further away from the brink
00:39and back to being a country where we can disagree civilly
00:43and we can search for truth and justice
00:46and that it outweighs the partisan urge to score points and create spectacle.
00:53The second reason I was there is that the girls and women
00:57whose lives Jeffrey Epstein destroyed deserve not just justice but healing.
01:03They've been waiting too long for both.
01:06Though my brief acquaintance with Epstein ended years before his crimes came to light
01:10and though I never witnessed during our limited interactions
01:14any indication of what was truly going on,
01:17I offered the little I do know in the hopes that it would help prevent anything like this
01:24from ever happening again.
01:26I also have to say something personal.
01:30Republicans made Hillary testify yesterday
01:33and she had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein.
01:37Nothing.
01:38She has no memory of ever even meeting him.
01:40She neither traveled with him nor visited any of his properties.
01:45So whether 10 people or 10,000 people were subpoenaed,
01:49including her, was simply not right.
01:53So here's what I told the committee.
01:56First, I had no idea of the crimes Epstein was committed.
02:00No matter how many photos they show of me,
02:02I have two things that at the end of the day
02:05matter far more than any interpretation of 20-year-old photos.
02:10I know what I saw and more importantly what I didn't see.
02:14And I know what I did.
02:16And more importantly what I didn't do.
02:20I saw nothing and I did nothing wrong.
02:25As someone who grew up in a home with domestic violence,
02:29not only would I not have flown on his plane
02:32if I had any inkling of what he was doing,
02:35I would have turned him in myself
02:36and led the call for justice for his crimes,
02:39not the sweetheart deal that he got.
02:43But even with 20-20 hindsight,
02:46I saw nothing that ever gave me real pause.
02:49We're only here today because Epstein hid it from everyone
02:52so well for so long.
02:54And by the time it came to light with his 2008 guilty plea,
02:58I had long stopped associating with it.
03:02When the video of my testimony today is released,
03:05I hope it will motivate everyone to go in front of Congress
03:08to say what they know.
03:11I hope it will motivate the Justice Department
03:14to finally release all the files
03:16and to ensure that this never happens again.
03:21The survivors deserve that.
03:28We'll be in front of Congress.
03:29We'll see you next time.
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