Hillary Clinton Deposed in Epstein Investigation 27/02/2026

Returning overseas now, the former first lady of the United States, Hillary Clinton, has submitted two hours of questioning in a landmark deposition on the investigation related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Our correspondent Rachel Clayton has been following developments from Washington and she joins me now. Hi there, Rachel. So we've just heard from Hillary Clinton. Take us through what she had to say. That's right. She was put through about seven hours of questioning and she came out about 10 minutes ago to give a summary of what she was asked inside that deposition. She's been adamant from the start that she wanted that deposition to be public. She wanted journalists to be in the room. That wasn't allowed. So she did give a quick summary of what occurred. She said it was very long and very repetitive. She was clearly unhappy with the line of questioning that she got from Republicans. And this is a little of what she had to say about the specific questions that she got throughout those seven hours. I don't know how many times I had to say I did not know Jeffrey Epstein. I never went to his island. I never went to his homes. I never went to his offices. So it's on the record numerous times. It then got at the end quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and a series of questions about Pizzagate, one of the most vile, bogus conspiracy theories that was propagated on the internet. There seems to be a lot of questions that were asked that were off topic and had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein because Hillary Clinton also praised the Republican head of the House Committee, Comer, for asking some very specific questions about the Russian involvement in the 2016 election. But all in all, when it came to the questions she was asked about the Epstein investigation, she said it was not productive. She did say that the video and the transcript of what went on inside the room was going to be released soon but couldn't give us a timeline or when that will be released. Rachel, there are also now mounting calls for US President Donald Trump to also testify. Tell us a bit more about that. There's been calls for a while now for President Trump to testify but it's really intensified today after reports were verified by Robert Garcia, one of the Democrats on the House Committee, that the Department of Justice had held back specific documents from the tranche of documents published in the Epstein files. These relate to an FBI investigation that occurred in 2019 when a woman came forward and alleged that Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein had sexually assaulted her when she was a minor in the 1980s. There are about three memos, summaries, of the investigation the FBI was undertaking after she made those allegations. Those are supposed to be in the files. They're not there. The Democrats are now really calling for those to be published and are using that to really put pressure on President Donald Trump to be questioned by Congress. This is a bit of what Democrat Robert Garcia had to say on that. This committee has now set a new precedent about talking to presidents and former presidents and we're demanding immediately that we ask President Trump to testify in front of our committee and be imposed in front of oversight Republicans and Democrats and that should happen immediately. He is the person that appears almost more than anyone else in the committee. As well as waiting for the transcripts of today and the video of today to come out, attention is quickly going to turn to the deposition that's going on tomorrow and that is of former President Bill Clinton. We know that he's been named in the files. He had financial links with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. There's no evidence wrongdoing on Bill Clinton's part but he has been in photographs at Jeffrey Epstein's homes in the city and he's been photographed alongside Ghislaine Maxwell. So his deposition is going to be very lengthy and he will be the first president, first former president I should say, since 1983 to be interrogated by Congress. All right, Rachel Clayton in Washington DC there. Thank you.