Bill Clinton: 'I saw nothing, I did nothing wrong'
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Bill Clinton has told a Congressional committee that he was unaware of the crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein. Mr Clinton said he saw nothing and did nothing wrong during his acquaintance with the late sex offender. Democrats have described the tone of the closed door hearing as civil, saying Mr Clinton answered every question.
Also in the programme: Pakistan defence minister says country in 'open war' with Afghanistan after strikes; Ramadan in Gaza; and we'll talk to a judge at the International Criminal Court, who was sanctioned by the US after the court issued an arrest warrant for Israel's prime minister.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.3 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour live from the BBC World Service in London. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm Rebecca Kesbby. |
| 0:15.6 | I saw nothing and I did nothing wrong. |
| 0:19.1 | That's the standout line from the former US President Bill Clinton's |
| 0:23.0 | opening statement. He published it online shortly before beginning his testimony under oath to |
| 0:28.6 | the House Oversight Committee investigating the crimes of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 0:33.5 | It's happening behind closed doors, as did his wife Hillary Clinton's testimony yesterday. |
| 0:39.8 | But while she says she never even met Epstein, Bill Clinton is documented visiting various Epstein properties. |
| 0:47.4 | He appears in the flight logs of the sex offenders' private jet, often dubbed the Lolita Express and the recently released Epstein files, |
| 0:56.2 | reveal several photographs of Bill Clinton with both Jeffrey Epstein and convicted sex |
| 1:01.4 | trafficker, Gillane Maxwell. We voiced up more of Mr Clinton's statement. First, I had no idea |
| 1:08.5 | of the crimes Epstein was committing, no matter how many photos you show me. |
| 1:13.6 | I have two things that at the end of the day matter more than your interpretation of those 20-year-old photos. |
| 1:20.3 | I know what I saw, and more importantly, what I didn't see. |
| 1:24.3 | I know what I did, and more importantly, what I didn't do. |
| 1:28.8 | I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong. I know what I did, and more importantly, what I didn't do. I saw nothing, |
| 1:36.6 | and I did nothing wrong. As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing, I would have turned him in myself and led the call for justice for his crimes, not sweetheart deals. |
| 1:46.4 | But even with 2020 hindsight, I saw nothing that ever gave me pause. |
| 1:51.0 | We are only here, because he hid it from everyone, so well for so long, |
| 1:57.3 | and by the time it came to light with his 2008 guilty plea, I had long stopped associating with him. |
| 2:04.9 | Well, the head of the House Oversight Committee Republican Congressman James Comer spoke to journalists before the deposition. |
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