Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper, and I am in Philadelphia. We're going to start with breaking news and our law and justice lead.

Former President Bill Clinton today sat for a closed door deposition with the House Oversight Committee.

It's all in regard to the panel's investigation into dead pedophile

Jeffrey Epstein and his child rape trafficking unit. The former president today said he only had

a brief acquaintance with Epstein that ended, quote, years before his crimes came to light.

They came to light in 2006, we should note. The former president also saying, quote,

I know what I saw, and more importantly, what I saying, quote, I know what I saw and more

importantly what I didn't see. I know what I did and more importantly what I didn't do.

I saw nothing and I did nothing wrong. That's according to his opening statement to lawmakers,

which the president, former president, posted on X. President Clinton also said that the women and girls whose lives

were destroyed by Epstein deserve justice and they deserve healing. A CNN review of Justice

Department documents showed that Clinton had flown on Epstein's plane at least 16 times,

and those documents also included pictures of Clinton in a hot tub with Gleine Maxwell,

Epstein's accomplice, and with other

women. During a break in the hearing, members of the Oversight Committee spoke about the

questioning so far, and the committee chairman James Comer, and the ranking Democrat, Robert

Garcia, appear to have rather conflicting accounts about how former President Clinton answered the question

of whether President Trump should be called for a deposition. Take a look.

A ranking member Garcia asked President Clinton, quote, should President Trump be called to answer

questions from this committee? And President Clinton said, that's for you to decide.

And the president went on to say that the President, Trump,

has never said anything to me to make me think he was involved.

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