Former US President Bill Clinton ordered to testify about Jeffrey Epstein
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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The former US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary are among high-profile figures to be sent legal summonses from a congressional committee investigating the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Also: a US report says the Titan submersible disaster in 2023 could have been prevented, and the race to build a nuclear reactor on the moon.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Global News Podcasts from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Wednesday, the 6th of August. |
| 0:10.4 | The former US President Bill Clinton is ordered to testify about Jeffrey Epstein, along with Hillary Clinton and eight former justice officials. |
| 0:18.7 | A senior UN official has told the Security Council |
| 0:21.5 | that reports of a possible expansion of Israel's military operations in Gaza |
| 0:26.0 | are deeply alarming, if true. |
| 0:29.3 | And the US Coast Guard says the implosion of the Titan submersible in 2023 |
| 0:33.3 | could have been prevented if the firm had better safety practices. |
| 0:39.8 | Also in this podcast, undercover with the people smugglers. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello, I want to leave soon. |
| 0:48.5 | Tomorrow is good. The price is €1,400. |
| 0:54.0 | I want to be in Britain. |
| 0:56.0 | The BBC investigates a gang, sending people across the English Channel in small boats. |
| 1:07.0 | It is rare for a former US President to be ordered to testify before Congress, but Bill Clinton is one of ten people subpoenaed by a House of Representatives committee investigating the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Hillary Clinton is also on the list, along with six former attorneyGeneral and two former FBI directors. |
| 1:28.2 | They're due to give evidence over the next few months. |
| 1:30.8 | The Oversight Committee has already demanded the release of files relating to Geoffrey Epstein |
| 1:35.4 | and subpoenaed his former girlfriend, Gillane Maxwell. |
| 1:38.8 | I asked our North America correspondent Nomia Iqbal, |
| 1:42.4 | what Congress wanted to know from Bill and Hillary Clinton. |
| 1:46.0 | And the subpoena that was sent to the Clintons, James Comer, the House Oversight Chair, |
| 1:53.2 | flags up how, by Clinton's own admission, he says, you flew on Epstein's jet four times between 2002, |
| 2:00.6 | 2002, 2003. He was also close to |
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