Fmr. President Bill Clinton questioned before the House Oversight Committee about Epstein

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 28 February 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Fmr. President Bill Clinton questioned before the House Oversight Committee about Epstein, the midterms officially kick off next week with primaries in three key states but all eyes are on Texas’ crowded primaries – & FCC Chair envisions a “Patriotic Program” for America’s 250 birthday. On tonight’s Nightcap: Philip Bump, Basil Smikle, Kristy Greenberg, and Anthony Fisher join The 11th Hour this Friday night.

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0:00.0	Good evening. I'm Catherine Rampel in for Stephanie Ruhl. Welcome to the nightcap. We are now
0:10.5	248 days away from the midterms. And with that, let's bring in our nightcap, starting with
0:17.2	Philip Bump, MS Now columnist and contributor, Basil Smichael, Democratic
0:21.7	and former executive director of the New York State Democratic Party.
0:24.9	He is now an MS Now political analyst and Columbia University professor.
0:29.1	MS now legal analyst, Christy Greenberg.
0:31.5	She is a former federal prosecutor and former SD&Y Criminal Division Deputy Chief.
0:36.7	And Anthony Fisher, senior Editor for MS Now Daily.
0:41.3	Thank you all for joining me this evening.
0:43.3	I want to start out by talking about the Epstein files
0:48.3	and what new revelations such as they are we have gotten.
0:52.3	Christy, I want to start with you.
0:53.3	You're a former prosecutor.
0:55.9	What, if anything, have we learned from the depositions taken of the two Clintons?
1:02.6	Not a whole lot.
1:04.9	I mean, it was really political theater more than anything else.
1:08.1	I understand why people would want to talk to Bill Clinton
1:11.5	about this. But at the end of the day, what he said was, I didn't know anything. And if I had,
1:16.4	I would have reported it. And the issue is, yes, he's on planes. There's some evidence that he was on
1:22.9	planes with women, not minors. And that may have seemed sketchy, but at the same time, he was with
1:30.0	secret service. He was with staff. He was with a lot of other people. So in order to believe that
1:35.2	he knew about crimes, his secret service also would have needed to know about crimes to and not
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