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chef. She and her husband, former president Bill Clinton. Right now, we see James Colmer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, getting ready to speak any moment now. What we can expect today. Let's listen in.
We have listened to people all across America who have kept up with the whole Epstein investigation and are outraged by the obvious fact that men and women, for that matter of great power and great wealth from all across the world, have been able to get away with a lot of heinous crimes, and they haven't been held accountable, and they haven't even had to answer questions about what they knew and when they knew it. Today, we hope to be able to do as we did yesterday, and continue to bring some of the most powerful people in the world in to answer questions. Again, no one is accusing anyone of any wrongdoing, but I think the American people have a lot of questions. And our House Oversight Committee is committed to getting answers. We're committed to transparency. We've already seen a lot of very powerful people who have been held accountable by having to resign in disgrace from various boards all over the world. We're going to continue to seek the truth, try to figure out how the government failed the victims, and try to hopefully hold more people accountable. That's what the purpose of this investigation is.
I will say this. It's very difficult to get people in for these depositions of great power and great wealth. And I used yesterday and today as an example. It took seven months, seven months to get the Clintons in here. But we've got them in here and we look forward to answering, to asking lots of questions that I think any curious media outlet in America would have. Yesterday, Miss Clinton deferred a lot of questions to her husband. Today, there were at least a dozen times when she said, you'll have to ask my husband that. I can't answer that. So we already had a big portfolio of questions for him and that increased yesterday. So we look forward to that. We'll be happy to answer a couple of questions, Mr. Chairman. Chad. Good morning. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Explain to us specifically what you need to hear from President Clinton today. What do you want to know?
Well, I think everyone's seeing there are a lot of photos that have been released by the Department of Justice, as well as the Epstein estate. There are a lot of email correspondence that included President Clinton. We know President Clinton had. And Secretary Clinton confirmed this yesterday. Jeffrey Epstein was in the white House 17 times while Bill Clinton was president. We know that Bill Clinton flew on Jeffrey Epstein's plane at least 27 times. So those are questions that we're going to ask. Everything that most media outlets have reported with respect to pictures and correspondence between Epstein, Maxwell and Bill Clinton. These are all questions that we're going to ask today. Mr. champion, yesterday, you both told me that you were planning on asking about an email that Howard Lutnick sent to Jeffrey Epstein, I presume, about a Hillary Clinton fundraiser. I think that was the one, if he's worth asking about, is he not worth asking in to talk about what he might know?
Yeah, and I think it will be interesting when we hopefully get that video out later today or tomorrow, as quick as we can get it out. I think it will be interesting what Hillary Clinton said about Howard Lutnick and how she said it and how she said it. We look, I think that was Miss Mace with the line of questioning. So there was a pretty thorough line of questioning yesterday between Miss Mace and Miss Clinton with respect to Lutnick. And I think you all find it very interesting what she had to say. But but we're going to continue to, you know, ask questions of, of everyone that's that shows up in photos on the island and things like that. Yes, yes. Commerce Secretary, I will be asking for him. Yes you will. Go ahead. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Obviously, we heard from Secretary Clinton after her deposition. She described the session as repetitive. She said it veered off topic. She's asked about things like UFOs, Pizzagate. Can you explain why those topics were brought up? And also in light of the release of that photo? And she also said there were substantive questions yesterday, too.
But one reason there were repetitive questions about Epstein is because we went through every email and every correspondence that implied Hillary Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein communicated often. You all have seen the email where he said that she looks better in person and all of that. Those were questions we asked. So every every item of evidence that would suggest Hillary Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein had a close relationship. We went and asked about that. So it may have seemed repetitive because there was a lot of documentation that would suggest that she had a relationship with Epstein. So go, go ahead. Secretary Clinton actually asked about the NDAA. Sorry. Go ahead. To be clear, Secretary Clinton actually asked us about what happened with the disclosure language in the NDAA. So, I mean, I know she's trying to pivot from the fact that she's here and she had a very close relationship regarding the Clinton Foundation and Epstein and Maxwell. But the point is, is and I think I'd like to hit on this with probably Miss Mace here, but I think we have a very important interest and curiosity about what specifically the Coconspirators had a role in all of this, right? We know for a fact that some of these were women, and I think that today, at least with my line of questioning, you know, I'm curious about that. Why is it that these women were giving plea deals as adults for trafficking minors? How much of that did they witness, etc. And so, you know, I don't know that Secretary Clinton was all that honest about the context of this investigation. We asked extensively about intelligence ties, whether or not she felt that she was targeted as a result of possibly an intelligence gathering operation, and she was very curiously interested in that. And then also you'll hear it in the response, but had told us to follow up with a few countries, one of which is our ally. So that's interesting. And I think I think miss Miss Luna brought up a good point about the Clinton Foundation. There's so many examples in the evidence the Department of Justice released in correspondence, where Epstein bragged about how involved he was initially in setting up the Clinton Global Initiative and the Clinton Foundation. We asked those questions to Secretary Clinton yesterday, and she kept saying, well, she was in the Senate at that time. She wasn't focused on it. You'll have to ask my husband. So a lot of the Clinton Global Initiative questions yesterday went unanswered because Miss Clinton deferred to her husband. So we'll we'll do one more question. Annie. Annie. Go ahead.
Secretary Clinton yesterday about photos of her husband in the Epstein files. What was her reaction when he showed various photos, for example, for her husband in the Jacuzzi that we've seen? I'm going to let I'm going to let miss Mason answer that. We're on TV. Okay. I'm not going to say anything. Oh, no, she didn't want to answer any questions about any of that and deferred most, if not all of those questions to her husband, and he will be thoroughly asked about that today. You know, what did he know? When did he know? What did he see? Because there are other people who come forward publicly, like Kevin Spacey, who thought all of this was very strange and actually a very high risk for president of the United States or former president. It's all very bizarre. But I asked her very pointed questions, and you'll see that in the transcript, in the video that comes out, and you'll see how she responded. Well, screaming and we'll close with this. We're going to we're going to get the video out as quickly as we can, get it uploaded in the sound and everything from yesterday. So this is, for all practical purposes, a public deposition. The American people are going to see it. I heard C-Span is going to air it. Wire to wire. So everyone is going to see what was asked yesterday. And I think that will answer a lot of questions, especially with lightning and other things like that. Throughout the day. We'll try to send different members out to to give you brief updates. We don't want to. Disclose what's going on in the in the deposition, specifically until after at the conclusion, but we will keep you updated, and we appreciate everyone being here and look forward to updating you throughout the day. What do you mean that Hillary Clinton was screaming. She was unhinged. And I hope that President Clinton is less unhinged today than his wife was yesterday. You'll see it. How do you think she had a relationship? Why do you think she had a relationship with him? Well, he was basically instrumental for his words. And I think you'll find out from Clinton today and sending up the Clinton congresswoman, who is the ally you were referring to, who was the ally in the biggest thing is transparency, accountability. And we need justice for the victims, and we need to make sure we find out how can we write laws to prevent human trafficking and preve