Rep. Jim Comer outlines the House’s bipartisan contempt motion against the Clintons over Epstein-related documents, with video depositions set for February after reviewing 3M pages. Democrats previously approved similar procedures during January 6th hearings, yet Clinton has never faced questions about Epstein’s wealth or victim oversight, unlike Trump. Comer insists the probe targets government failures—not political protection—while scheduling further witness depositions, including "Lex" and Howard Luttnick, who admitted visiting Epstein’s properties. The episode underscores a rare bipartisan push for accountability in high-profile cases, framing it as a long-overdue reckoning with systemic neglect. [Automatically generated summary]
It's going to be that the subpoena and the contempt was on a deposition.
If we get to the deposition and there's something meaningful to have a hearing, if they still want some more oversight, then I think the members of my committee would love to have them in for a public hearing.
So we're fine with that.
But the issue here is this original subpoena and the contempt was on the deposition.
So if they get to the depositions and they still want a public hearing, we'll try to do something because I think that I do it.
And I don't think it's any secret.
Depositions have historically been much more substantive than hearings.
Hearings are, unfortunately, have become more of an entertainment thing.
This is a serious investigation and it's bipartisan.
And again, I believe that there were going to be several Democrats that were going to vote to hold Clinton in contempt, but the ones that voted, many of the Democrats that voted for contempt in the committee called and said, if they come in in February, we want them one more chance and then we'll vote with them on the floor.
So I've worked with the Democrats.
We've worked for six months now with the Clintons and I'm happy to say that I'm pretty confident they're going to come in.
If they don't, the contempt vote will be.
unidentified
Mr. Chairman, Democrats are now saying that this is setting a precedent, that in the future, perhaps President Trump could be called to testify.
I think, you know, one of the things that we're talking about today, the video, the deposition will be videoed, that was never a thing until the Democrats set a precedent to video the January 6th deposition.
So now there's a precedent to do videos.
This isn't about helping President Trump.
This isn't about protecting President Trump.
About doing two things, what we've said all along, getting the truth to the American people about what happened with the whole Epstein saga, and secondly, how did the government fail the victims?
That's the purpose of the whole investigation, and it's bipartisan.
And hopefully, the Clintons will hopefully have some information that'll be helpful to us getting answers.
You know, one question everybody has: how did Jeffrey Epstein accumulate so much wealth?
And I don't know.
I don't think anyone knows.
I've read every story about the Epstein.
So, that and obviously the documents, the three million pages of documents we're going through.
I know you all are going through, and we'll hopefully have had time in the next two weeks to have gone through all of those documents and see if there's any other questions that might be relevant to the Clintons.
So, good question.
unidentified
And, Congressman, there was a question earlier today.
Democrats brought in the siblings of Renee Good.
You did not attend that event with Democrats.
Would you be open to hearing from the siblings of Renee Good?
It's my understanding that the House Oversight or the House Homeland Security Committee is having hearings, and the Senate Homeland Security is having hearings about that.
So, there's already two committees, one in the House and one in the Senate, that are having hearings on that.
We're not the only committee that provides oversight.
Homeland Security Committee, the one thing in the world they provide oversight over is Homeland Security-related issues, so that would fall under IS and all of that.
So, we'll see how their hearing goes.
If there are some other things that some loose ends, if we have to step in, we're always open to a hearing or a worthy probe or things like that.
But right now, both the House and Senate Homeland Security Committees are having hearings.
unidentified
Mr. Chairman, President Trump's name is mentioned more than a thousand times in these documents.