Name: Hillary Clinton accuses Trump administration of Epstein files 'cover-up' in BBC interview | BBC News
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The former US Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says she believes Andrew Mousebatten Windsor and anyone with any information about the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein should testify before Congress.

Clinton also said she and her husband, Bill Clinton, want their forthcoming testimony about Epstein to be public.

The couple had previously refused to testify to the Epstein inquiry and were threatened with contempt proceedings.

Former President Bill Clinton appears several times in the Epstein files that were released by the US Justice Department last month.

has denied having any knowledge he was a sex offender and says he cut off contact with him two decades ago.

Bill Clinton will appear in Congress for a deposition on 27 February, and

Hillary Clinton is set to appear the day before I.

Our Europe correspondent, Jessica Parker, sat down with Mrs. Clinton.

Hillary Clinton, thank you for talking to BBC News.

I want to start off talking about the case of Jeffrey Epstein.

The former President says he knew him before his crimes came to light.

But there are also associations with Ghislaine Maxwell, including in 2013 when she was a guest at a Clinton Global Initiative event, years after allegations had emerged against her.

What I want to know is, do you regret the links that there have been between Epstein, Maxwell and the Clinton family?

Well, let me start by saying that a law was passed in Congress to require that all the files that have anything to do with with them be released.

And what we're seeing, I think it's fair to say, is a continuing cover up by the Trump administration.

In fact, when the Attorney General testified last week, it was quite a scene because she refused to answer questions.

She diverted attention away from the matters at hand.

So there's something about this administration's attitude toward this which I think really leads us to conclude they have something to hide.

We have been willing to say whatever we know.

they want us to testify, not everyone else who's mentioned many, many times, hundreds of thousands of times in these files.

So we've said, fine, let us do it in public, and

we will appear in public and we'll answer all your questions.

But just to be clear, do you regret the links that there have been?

We have a very clear record that we've been willing to talk about, which my husband has said he took some rides on the airplane for his charitable work.

And thousands of people go to the Clinton Global Initiative.

So it, to me, is not something that is really at the heart of what this matter is about.

They are accused and in both cases were convicted of horrific crimes against girls and women.

And we are more than happy to say what we know, which is very limited and totally unrelated to their behavior or their crimes.

And we want to do it in public because let's make this transparent.

But, you know, the Republican member of Congress who is running this hearing or this investigation is trying to protect the president.

So let's get to what's really at stake here, just on this hearing.

And obviously, I'm sure Donald Trump, his administration would reject your characterization of what's going on.

And the attorney general was clearly unwilling to answer questions.

Trump, President Trump is mentioned, some say a million times in the files.

That's what it says, you know, on the Internet over and over again.

So let's, so let's find out what the truth is.

That's why we want it to be transparent and in public.

On that, your upcoming appearance before the Oversight Committee, where are we with that?

Public versus closed door deposition, Is it going ahead and how.

we think it would be better to have it in public because what we want is for everybody to get to the facts about this.

We, we have called for the full release of these files repeatedly.

We think sunlight is the best disinfectant.

They are redacting the names of men who are in it.

They are stonewalling legitimate requests from members of Congress.

If they're going to have me testify, I would prefer to do it in public because I want everybody to see it at the same time.

If I have to do it behind closed doors, they're not going to like what I have to say because I have very strong opinions about what it is they're hiding and who they are protecting.

There are calls for another individual who denies wrongdoing to go before Congress on this matter.

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew.

I think everybody should testify, including the former prince.

Look, I think everybody should testify who was asked to testify.

That's not true for my husband and me because other witnesses were asked to testify.

To divert attention from President Trump.

We're going to have the Clintons, even Hillary Clinton, who never met the guy, we're going to have her there.

Let's focus on what's really happening here.

You have an attorney general and a Justice Department attempting to hide information that should be made public.

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