{"id":320510,"date":"2026-02-27T18:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/320510\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T18:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:33:08","slug":"live-updates-bill-clinton-testifies-about-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/320510\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Bill Clinton testifies about relationship with Jeffrey Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/core\/website\/assets\/static\/news\/incident-types\/light-mode\/analysis.77b314ef10.svg\" alt=\"Analysis\" draggable=\"false\" class=\"ssrcss-to2z4d-ContributorImageComponent e2hr5uu0\"\/>Bill Clinton to face longer and more tense questioningpublished at 17:22 GMT<\/p>\n<p>17:22 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-5adjh7-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/b4487919-1b9a-4ecb-9e3b-5b9def305cba.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Nada Tawfik<br \/>Reporting from Chappaqua, New York<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The political temperature is really heating up on day two of these depositions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before the start, we heard from both Republicans and Democrats on the committee and their description of the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton\u2019s demeanour and credibility couldn\u2019t have been more different.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Republican representative Nancy Mace claimed Clinton was unhinged at one point in the deposition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Democrats, in disbelief, said that was beyond a mischaracterisation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The public will be able to decide for themselves when the video is eventually made public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Today\u2019s deposition is expected to be far more tense and to last a lot longer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unlike his wife, former President Bill Clinton has several documented trips and interactions with Epstein when he was trying to set up his charitable work post presidency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was before Epstein was under federal investigation for sex trafficking and Clinton says he regrets his association with him and never knew of his crimes at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Democrats say they will ask Clinton hard questions, but that the wrong president is giving evidence today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton to face longer and more tense questioningpublished at 17:22 GMT 17:22 GMT Nada TawfikReporting from Chappaqua,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-320510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}