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Hello and welcome to Newsare from the BBC World Service.

We're coming to you live from London.

I'm James Menendez.

And we're going to begin in a small town just north of New York City

because it's there later today that the former

US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, will answer questions from the Congressional Committee

investigating the late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. Her husband, the former US President

Bill Clinton, will follow suit on Friday. Their depositions have been recorded near the couple's home in Chappaqua.

They'd only agreed to give evidence after they were warned they'd be held in criminal contempt of Congress if they refused.

Mrs. Clinton spoke to the BBC last week saying she didn't remember ever meeting Jeffrey Epstein

and that the couple had nothing to hide.

We are more than happy to say what we know, which is very limited and totally unrelated to their behavior or their crimes,

and we want to do it in public because let's make this transparent.

The Democratic Congresswoman Yasamine Ansari sits on the oversight committee that will hear her testimony later.

First of all, I do separate Secretary Clinton and former President Clinton in my mind,

and I think that the public should as well.

That's why there's two separate depositions to understand

what each of them may or may not have known. What I do appreciate is that both Clintons have

been very clear that they want the full and unredacted files released. I hope the White House

listens to that, but truly this investigation is just getting started.

Sydney Blumenthal is a former senior advisor to Bill Clinton

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