The Hillary Clinton Deposition Video Is Now Public — Here’s What It Shows

On Monday, March 2, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released the closed-door depositions taken last week from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton.

The committee’s release is the latest escalation in a sprawling political and oversight fight over the “Epstein files.” The question is who, if anyone, among America’s powerful should be compelled to answer questions under oath about what they knew, when they knew it, and how the federal government handled Jeffrey Epstein’s case.

The Oversight Committee posted the depositions. Hillary Clinton’s from Feb. 26 and Bill Clinton’s from Feb. 27 after taking testimony in Chappaqua, New York, where the Clintons live.

CBS News reported each video runs roughly 4½ hours, reflecting hours of questioning under oath behind closed doors.

Hillary Clinton’s core claim, under oath was that there was no relationship between her and Epstein. In her opening statement and post-deposition remarks, Hillary Clinton’s position is direct: she said she never met Jeffrey Epstein, never communicated with him, and had no knowledge of Epstein’s or Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal activities.

She described Maxwell as a casual acquaintance encountered through social circles, and said Maxwell attended her daughter’s wedding as someone else’s guest.

Hillary Clinton also framed the deposition as politically motivated. She called them “political theater,” arguing the committee was targeting her despite her claim that she had no relevant information to provide.

A major flashpoint around Hillary Clinton’s deposition was a procedural breach.

The deposition was briefly paused after Rep. Lauren Boebert leaked a photo from inside the proceeding, an apparent violation of House deposition rules; Hillary Clinton said the incident was “very upsetting.”

Clinton was visibly angry, threatening to walk out. Hillary Clinton was frustrated by the whole thing, contrary to her calm husband Bill.

Bill Clinton reiterated that he saw no evidence of trafficking while around Epstein and said he ended the relationship years before Epstein’s 2008 guilty plea; he also recounts a conversation in which he says President Donald Trump told him he’d had “some great times” with Epstein before they fell out over a real-estate deal.

Chairman James Comer has argued the inquiry isn’t, at least “at this moment,” an accusation of wrongdoing by the Clintons. The committee desires to understand Epstein’s network: how he accumulated wealth, how he embedded himself among influential people, and whether he functioned as a government asset.

Even with hours of footage, the release still doesn’t settle the biggest public questions on its own. Video can feel definitive, but it isn’t the same thing as a complete evidentiary record—viewers aren’t seeing the underlying exhibits, the full paper trail behind each line of questioning, or what investigators may already have corroborated off-camera. And just as important, being “named in files” is not the same as being implicated in a crime: multiple outlets have emphasized that a person’s appearance in records, calendars, contact lists, or even photographs, by itself, doesn’t establish wrongdoing—it only establishes proximity, not proof.

The accountability question is broader than any one witness. Hillary Clinton’s testimony, as she frames it, is essentially: I have no involvement to explain. The committee’s project is bigger: mapping how Epstein operated around institutions and elites.

Public depositions in Washington are almost never only about fact-finding; they’re also about story-making. Once you release the video, you’re not just publishing sworn testimony—you’re manufacturing raw material for the attention economy, where a handful of “moments” will do more to shape public memory than any transcript ever could.

That’s the real endpoint of a release like this: narratives sprinting ahead of the facts.