Name: Hillary Clinton speaks after deposition on Jeffrey Epstein for House Oversight Committee
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We want to take you now to Chappaqua, New York, where moments ago, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke to reporters after testifying before the House Oversight Committee about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

What I said in my statement this morning, I never met Jeffrey Epstein, never had any connection or communication with him.

I knew Ghislaine Maxwell casually as an acquaintance, but

whatever they asked me, I did my very best to respond.

It was disappointing that they refused to hold a public hearing, so I wouldn't have to be out here characterizing it for you.

We think it would have been better for the committee and its efforts to gather whatever information they are seeking.

We had a bit of a challenge in the beginning because we had agreed upon rules based on the fact it was going to be a closed hearing at their demand.

And one of the members violated that rule, which was very upsetting because it suggested that they might violate other of our agreements.

So we had to cease the hearing for a period of time until we could get assurances that no rules would be broken going forward.

And we returned to answer questions repetitively, literally, over and over again.

I don't know how many times I had to say I did not know Jeffrey Epstein.

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, that was serving as the basis of a member's questions to me.

So I can only say that the best exchange that I had came at the very end, when, contrary to every other deposition they have taken, no Republican member asked any questions about Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell to anyone else they have deposed.

And in fact, the Republican members didn't even show up for the deposition of Les Wexner.

And when I said that, I had to point out that.

That the only questions that any Republican member asked of any of the people they deposed was of former Attorney General Bill Barr when Chairman Comer asked him about the allegations, in his view, about Russia's involvement in my election in 2016.

So at the very end of this hearing, after I made that point, I want to commend Chairman Comer for raising a series of significant questions that I responded to about the nature of the investigation and the areas that I thought should be explored.

So that was a reassuring way to end a very long, repetitive deposition.

You spoke in your opening remarks about how heartbroken you have been for the even watching former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speak after testifying before the House Oversight Committee about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Let's go now to CBS News congressional correspondent Nicole Killian, who's been following today's developments.

So, Nicole, what did we learn today from Secretary Clinton?

Well, I know you were just getting ready to play the portion where the secretary did take a few questions from the media, including from CBS News.

And I asked her if she still wants to testify publicly because at the end of the day that's what she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, called for.

However, Chairman Comer said that they had to do these depositions first and then he would potentially consider doing a public hearing.

But she basically said no, you know, this was it.

Ideally they wanted this to be a public hearing.

But short of that, she feels that she has certainly done her part.

And she characterized this proceeding as you heard her there say that this was very repetitive in her view that she was asked over and over and over again about Jeffrey Epstein and kind of had to give the same answer over and over and over again that she did not have any interactions with him, she did not meet with him, she did not go to his island, she's never been to his home, his offices.

And she said that she made that statement a number of times.

You also heard her there talk about some of the off topic questions she got on issues like UFOs.

But at the end of the day, she felt that she did her duty, did her part.

That is something she alluded to in her opening statement earlier today, obviously not only being a former secretary of state and a former first lady, but

also former senator as well, realizing the importance of legislative oversight, which is why she agreed to take part in this.

She said she has full confidence in her husband going forward, of course, since he will be giving his deposition to the House Oversight Committee tomorrow.

All right, Nicole Killian, thank you very much.

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