Hillary Clinton called on House Oversight Chairman James Comer to conduct her and former President Bill Clinton’s Jeffrey Epstein-related depositions in public, after the couple agreed to appear later in February amid looming contempt proceedings. Comer said the committee plans to release transcripts and recordings and is reviewing whether a live broadcast is legally possible.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday called for her and former President Bill Clinton’s depositions before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to be conducted publicly and on camera.
In a post on X, Clinton said she and her husband had been negotiating with committee Republicans for months and accused them of shifting demands. “For six months, we engaged Republicans on the Oversight Committee in good faith. We told them what we know, under oath,” she wrote. “They ignored all of it. They moved the goalposts and turned accountability into an exercise in distraction.”
Clinton added: “So let’s stop the games. If you want this fight, [Rep. James Comer (R-KY)], let’s have it—in public. You love to talk about transparency. There’s nothing more transparent than a public hearing, cameras on. We will be there.”
Comer responded publicly and also told conservative podcaster Benny Johnson that the depositions “will be public” in the sense that the committee intends to release transcripts, as well as audio and video. He said the sessions were expected to be recorded and released later, though the committee was also considering whether it could livestream them. “We hadn’t planned on it being live, but we’re seeing the legality of that, and it’s never been done before,” Comer said.
The dispute escalated after the committee initiated contempt of Congress proceedings when the Clintons did not appear for depositions scheduled in January, according to a committee statement. The panel said it had issued follow-on subpoenas setting Bill Clinton’s deposition for January 13, 2026, and Hillary Clinton’s for January 14, 2026, and that both failed to appear.
On January 21, 2026, the Oversight Committee voted to recommend contempt findings, with the committee and The Daily Wire reporting that nine Democrats joined Republicans on Bill Clinton’s contempt vote and three Democrats joined Republicans on Hillary Clinton’s vote. The committee said the full House was preparing to consider contempt action when the Clintons agreed to appear for transcribed, filmed depositions later this month.
In a statement announcing the agreement, Comer said the Clintons “completely caved” once a House contempt vote appeared likely. The committee scheduled Hillary Clinton’s deposition for February 26, 2026, and Bill Clinton’s for February 27, 2026.
The Daily Wire reported that the committee’s investigation concerns Epstein’s crimes and those of his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and that the Justice Department has been releasing millions of pages of case-related material. Separately, the Justice Department said on January 30, 2026, that it had published nearly 3.5 million pages in total in response to the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
The Daily Wire also reported that the Clintons have not been accused of wrongdoing in Epstein’s sex crimes, and that Bill Clinton traveled multiple times on Epstein’s plane in the early 2000s. The article said a photo shows Bill Clinton receiving a massage from Chauntae Davies, identified in the report as one of Epstein’s accusers, and that none of Epstein’s victims has accused Bill Clinton of wrongdoing.
According to The Daily Wire, the Clintons have argued they already provided what they described as limited information in sworn written statements to the committee, while Comer has insisted the pair sit for deposition questioning under oath.
