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🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.) says that Hillary Clinton has nothing to hide after the House Oversight Committee interviews the former secretary as part of its Jeffrey Epstein probe. The Department of Defense clashes with AI giant Anthropic over the use of artificial intelligence in the military. President Trump escalates pressure on Iran as peace talks continue abroad.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Meet the Press now. I'm Kristen Welker in Washington. We begin with breaking news amid new fallout

0:17.1

tied to the Epstein files. Right now, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is behind

0:22.0

closed doors near her home in Chappaqua, New York for a deposition for the House Oversight

0:27.5

Committee as part of its Epstein investigation with committee members set to question former

0:32.7

President Bill Clinton tomorrow. According to her opening statement, Secretary Clinton told lawmakers

0:38.6

she could not recall ever meeting Mr. Epstein

0:41.4

and that she had no new information

0:44.0

for their investigation.

0:45.3

She also accused Republicans

0:46.6

of partisan political theater.

0:48.9

Committee Chair James Comer speaking

0:50.4

to reporters from Chappaqua pushing back.

0:55.3

Democrats voted to subpoena the Clintons.

0:58.1

The Democrats voted with the Republicans to hold the Clintons in contempt.

1:01.7

So the Democrats have just as many questions for the Clintons as the Republican.

1:05.6

So this isn't a partisan witch hunt.

1:08.9

This was a motion, a bipartisan motion supported by the Democrats to bring

1:14.5

the Clintons in. So I don't think it to any type of being unfair in any way to the Clintons.

1:22.4

Now, as we just noted, former President Bill Clinton is slated to be deposed tomorrow for the first time a former

1:29.0

president has ever been compelled to testify as part of a congressional investigation.

1:34.3

And Democrats on the Oversight Committee say they're now setting their sights on the current

1:38.8

president. So we should be very clear that now that we're going to hear from former President Clinton,

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