Bill Clinton testifies in House Epstein investigation
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
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🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | No person is above the law, even presidents, especially presidents. |
| 0:05.0 | With those words, 79-year-old President Bill Clinton faced the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee, |
| 0:12.0 | testifying for more than six hours today as part of the committee's investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 0:18.0 | No person is above the law, even presidents, especially presidents. |
| 0:24.1 | That's a line another 79-year-old president doesn't want to hear, |
| 0:29.1 | which is why he said this today. |
| 0:32.9 | Are you just saying that all about President Bill Smith being deposed |
| 0:36.8 | and that that sets precedence in you or your family? I don't like seeing President Bill Clinton being to close and that that kept the precedence in you and your family. |
| 0:39.7 | I don't like seeing him deposed, but, you know, they certainly went after me a lot more than that. |
| 0:47.0 | I don't like, I don't like, I like him. |
| 0:50.5 | I like seeing him to post. |
| 0:59.5 | Today, President Clinton became the first sitting or former president to tell him. I don't like seeing him to pose. Today, President Clinton became the first sitting or former president to testify before Congress since President Gerald Ford testified before the Senate, a Senate subcommittee, 43 years ago. |
| 1:06.3 | Ahead of his testimony, President Clinton released his entire opening statement, saying in part, |
| 1:12.1 | he was appearing before the committee because, quote, the girls and women whose lives |
| 1:17.6 | Jeffrey Epstein destroyed deserved not only justice, but healing. They've been waiting too long for |
| 1:23.5 | both. Though my brief acquaintance with Epstein ended years before his crimes came to light, |
| 1:29.5 | and though I never witnessed during our limited interactions any indication of what was truly |
| 1:35.1 | going on, I am here to offer what little I know so that it might prevent anything like this |
| 1:41.0 | from ever happening again. President Clinton's testimony comes one day after his |
| 1:47.1 | wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, testified before the same committee. President |
| 1:53.1 | Clinton said, quote, but before we start, I have to get personal. You made Hillary come in. She had |
| 2:00.6 | nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein, |
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