House Republicans subpoena Clintons, DOJ and FBI officials in Epstein probe
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🗓️ 6 August 2025
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USA TODAY Domestic Security Correspondent Josh Meyer breaks down subpoenas issued by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee in their Jeffrey Epstein probe.
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| 0:34.8 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Wednesday, August 6th, 2025. This is USA Today's |
| 0:40.7 | the excerpt. Today's subpoenas in the Epstein probe, plus the Voting Rights Act turned 60, |
| 0:49.2 | and bringing comfort to kids in tragedy by replacing lost toys. |
| 1:00.0 | Republicans on the House Oversight Committee announced yesterday they have subpoenaed a number of top Democrats and former federal law enforcement leaders to appear for depositions |
| 1:04.5 | in their Jeffrey Epstein probe. |
| 1:06.2 | They include former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. |
| 1:10.0 | I spoke with USA Today, |
| 1:11.5 | domestic security correspondent Josh Meyer for more. Hiya, Josh. Hey, Taylor. All right. So who are some of the |
| 1:18.0 | folks, Josh, being subpoenaed here and why them? It's a wide range of people. It's Democrats and |
| 1:22.8 | Republicans, but they are focusing, this is the House Oversight Committee, they are focusing |
| 1:27.3 | on a lot of Democrats. |
| 1:29.4 | They're including Attorney General's Merrick Garland from the Biden administration, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch from the Obama administration, also Bill Barr, Jeff Sessions from the First Trump administration, and Alberto Gonzalez from the George W. Bush administration. |
| 1:43.0 | So they're going pretty far back, |
| 1:44.4 | which tracks with the timeline of the allegations in which Jeffrey Epstein is accused of trafficking |
| 1:49.5 | young girls with the help of Galane Maxwell, allegedly. And Josh, just to understand here, |
| 1:54.6 | they're also subpoenaing the Justice Department itself, correct? It's part of this. |
| 1:58.4 | They are subpoenaing the Justice Department itself. Importantly, they're also subpoenaing former President Clinton and Hillary Clinton, the former Secretary of State, |
| 2:05.8 | and also FBI Director James Comey, his predecessor, Robert Mueller. You know, they say they're doing this to get to |
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