{"id":447275,"date":"2026-02-26T20:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/447275\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T20:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:30:10","slug":"live-hillary-clinton-testifies-before-congress-about-epstein-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/447275\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Hillary Clinton testifies before Congress about Epstein relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is this deposition a political stunt?published at 17:55 GMT<\/p>\n<p>17:55 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-3u1n9h-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/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>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"scene of reporters lined up on a street with their filming gear\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4f9c03cc-2b1a-49d0-894b-29c25b824ad7.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Nada Tawfik\/BBC News<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We are outside the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center waiting for updates from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton\u2019s closed door deposition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Republicans on the committee have said they will come out every hour to share what they have learned and have insisted the deposition today isn&#8217;t a political stunt. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But is it? <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the one hand, Democrats joined Republicans to threaten the Clintons with contempt of Congress if they didn\u2019t appear. But today, the committee\u2019s Democrats emphasised that there\u2019s no indication that Hillary Clinton had any knowledge of Epstein\u2019s crimes and that President Trump, who is named far more in the Epstein files, should now also answer questions under oath. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James Walkinshaw, one of the Democrats who spoke here, slammed today\u2019s deposition as a political exercise and part of a long-running fever dream to lock up the Clintons. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Democrats are now betting that by setting this example with the Clintons, it will actually increase pressure on President Trump. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No doubt, the public will be dissecting the Clintons&#8217; responses and their credibility. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is this deposition a political stunt?published at 17:55 GMT 17:55 GMT Nada TawfikReporting from Chappaqua, New York Image&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-447275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}