00:00I just finished testifying in front of the House Oversight Committee.
00:05I did it for two reasons.
00:07First, I love my country, including our Constitution.
00:13And America was built on the idea that no person is above the law, even presidents,
00:21especially presidents, and that we should all live under the same set of rules.
00:27This kind of democracy requires every person to play their part.
00:32And I hope that by being there today, we can bring ourselves just a little further away
00:37from the brink and back to being a country where we can disagree civilly and we can search
00:44for truth and justice, and that it outweighs the partisan urge to score points and create
00:50spectacle.
00:52The second reason I was there is that the girls and women whose lives Jeffrey Epstein
00:58destroyed deserve not just justice but healing.
01:02They've been waiting too long for both.
01:05Though my brief acquaintance with Epstein ended years before his crimes came to light, and though
01:11I never witnessed during our limited interactions any indication of what was truly going on, I
01:18offered the little I do know in the hopes that it would help prevent anything like this from ever
01:24happening again.
01:25I also have to say something personal.
01:29Republicans made Hillary testify yesterday, and she had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein.
01:36Nothing.
01:36She has no memory of ever even meeting him.
01:39She neither traveled with him nor visited any of his property.
01:43So whether ten people or ten thousand people were subpoenaed, including her, was simply not
01:50right.
01:52So here's what I told the committee.
01:55First, I had no idea of the crimes Epstein was committed.
01:58Unfortunately, no matter how many photos they show of me, I have two things that, at the end
02:03of the day, matter far more than any interpretation of twenty-year-old photos.
02:09I know what I saw, and more importantly, what I didn't see.
02:13And I know what I did, and more importantly, what I didn't do.
02:19I saw nothing and did nothing wrong.
02:24As someone who grew up in a home with domestic violence, not only would I not have flown on
02:30his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing, I would have turned him in myself
02:35and led the call for justice for his crimes, not the sweetheart deal that he got.
02:42But even with twenty-twenty hindsight, I saw nothing that ever gave me a real pause.
02:48We were only here today because Epstein hid it from everyone so well for so long.
02:53And by the time it came to light with his 2008 guilty plea, I had long stopped associating
03:00with it.
03:01When the video of my testimony today is released, I hope it will motivate everyone to go in front
03:07of Congress to say what they know.
03:10I hope it will motivate the Justice Department to finally release all the files and to ensure
03:16that this never happens again.
03:21The survivors deserve that.
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