Hillary Clinton wants to testify publicly

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton challenged Republicans on Thursday House Oversight Committee To witness her and the former President Bill Clinton About sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein Publicly and not in closed session as those lawmakers plan.

Hillary Clinton made the demand after she and Bill Clinton dropped their efforts to resist subpoenas to testify before the committee, whose Republican leadership had threatened to vote them in contempt of Congress if they refused to appear.

“For six months, we engaged Republicans on the Oversight Committee in good faith,” Hillary Clinton said in a post on X. “We told them what we knew under oath. They ignored it all. They moved the goalposts and turned it into an exercise in the distraction of accountability.”

“So let’s stop the game. If you want this fight, @RepJamesComerLet’s have it — in public,” Clinton wrote, naming the panel’s chair.

“You like to talk about transparency. There’s nothing more transparent than public hearings, cameras on.”

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said Journalists on Tuesday The Clintons “will not be treated any differently” and said the subpoenas for them called for testimony by the committee, not a public hearing.

“If they testify and still want a public hearing, we’ll try to do something,” Comer said that day.

Asked about Hillary Clinton’s ex-post in a statement to CNBC on Thursday, an Oversight Committee spokesperson said, “Clinton is going to Clinton and trying to twist the facts because no one is buying her claims. As always, the only people moving the goalposts are Clinton and her lawyers.”

“Clinton was issued a bipartisan subpoena for a deposition — not a hearing. Republicans and Democrats on the Oversight Committee voted to recommend the House hold Clinton in contempt of Congress for defying properly issued subpoenas for six months,” the statement said.

“In light of the contempt of congressional proceedings, the Clintons’ attorneys have agreed to provide videotaped, transcribed testimony on February 26 and 27,” the spokeswoman said.

“These testimonies are in accordance with House and Committee rules. All witnesses appearing for interviews as part of our Epstein investigation are being treated fairly and consistently. The Committee has filmed interviews with all witnesses, including former US Attorney General Bill Barr and US Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta – both of whom are Republican witnesses.”