WATCH 5 things we learned from Bill and Hillary Clinton s depositions on Jeffrey Epstein

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The House Oversight Committee released the videotaped depositions of Bill and Hillary
Clinton where they were asked about their connections to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine
Maxwell.
Here are five things to know.
One.
Bill Clinton's former Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers, introduced him to Epstein.
Clinton said sometime after he left office, Summers, who was then president of Harvard
University, called and said Epstein wanted to help support his humanitarian efforts and
was offering his private plane to do so.
In exchange, Clinton said their arrangement was that Epstein would get to talk to the
former president for a certain duration of each flight about economics and politics.
Clinton testified that after about four or five such interactions, he deduced that Epstein
wasn't really interested in his charitable work after all.
Clinton's relationship with Maxwell did continue, in part because she started dating Ted Wait,
a billionaire Clinton donor and friend.
The couple attended Chelsea Clinton's wedding together in 2010.
Clinton also confirmed that Maxwell helped set up the Clinton Global Initiative in its
early years.
As for Larry Summers, emails released in the Epstein files show that he had a close friendship
with the sex offender and went to him for romantic advice.
Summers has said he was deeply ashamed of his relationship with Epstein.
He has been on leave from his Harvard professorship since September and has said he is fully resigning
at the end of the academic year.
2.
Bill Clinton once had a conversation with Donald Trump about Epstein, after Clinton
left office and many years before Trump became president.
Clinton said Trump brought up their mutual acquaintance while the two men were at a charity
golf tournament at one of Trump's resorts.
Trump said he and Epstein had been friends and had a lot of fun over the years, but that
they had had a falling out over a land deal.
The president never, this is 20 something years ago, never said anything to me to make
me think he was involved in anything in profit with regard to Epstein either.
He just didn't.
He just said we were friends and then we had a falling out over a land deal, property deal.
President Trump has also said publicly that the falling out was over Epstein's poaching
of young female staffers at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club.
3.
Bill Clinton said he thought somebody from law enforcement might reach out to him about
his relationship with Epstein after his conviction in 2008, but that no one ever did.
He said up until now, no law enforcement official has asked him about Epstein or Maxwell.
I don't believe any law enforcement agency has ever asked me and I didn't know enough
to volunteer anything.
4.
We learned a few details about some of the pictures from the Epstein files that include
Bill Clinton.
First is a photo of Clinton in a hot tub with a woman whose likeness is redacted.
Clinton said that picture was taken at a hotel in the small Southeast Asian country of Brunei
during a trip he took with Epstein and their respective entourages to Asia.
He said the jacuzzi and a connected pool were part of a lavish suite where his group had
been staying, and that shortly after the picture was taken, he got out of the hot tub and went
to bed.
Clinton also spoke about an image of him receiving a back massage at what looks like an airport
terminal.
He said he remembered the name of the Epstein staffer who gave it to him, Shante Davies,
who has since revealed that she is also a survivor of Epstein's abuse.
Clinton said he did not know of the alleged abuse at the time and that he wished she had
told him.
5.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had little to contribute to the committee
as she maintains she never met Epstein and never visited any of his residences.
I am so tired of answering that question.
If you have one scintilla of evidence to the contrary, put it forward.
I have never been on his island, period.
I've never been in his homes, his offices, his anything.
Hillary Clinton did, however, recommend some other witnesses she says the lawmakers should
try to interview.
I set up a deposition with President Trump.
I know he's been deposed many, many, many times.
He's taken the Fifth Amendment many, many hundreds of times.
So I'm not saying you're going to get a lot of information.
But given what's in the files and given past and prior conduct, he would be on my witness
list.
For PBS News, I'm Ali Rogin.
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