The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee panel has given Bill and Hillary Clinton just hours to agree to sit for interviews about their relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein or face being held in contempt of Congress.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) said during a press conference that the Clintons had until noon Tuesday to agree to cooperate with the panel.
A source familiar told the Washington Examiner that the oversight panel is still negotiating with the Clintons over standard deposition terms, including whether the interviews would be transcribed, filmed depositions in February with no time limit, pursuant to the committee’s investigation.
The Clintons initially refused to comply with bipartisan subpoenas for interviews from the oversight committee. The refusal led the panel to vote in a bipartisan fashion to hold both the former president and the former secretary of state in contempt of Congress. A full house vote on holding the two in contempt was scheduled for Monday.
BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON CAVE TO OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE AND AGREE TO TESTIFY IN EPSTEIN INQUIRY
Only hours before the vote was to take place, however, the Clintons agreed to cooperate.
“They negotiated in good faith,” Clinton spokesman Angel Ureña wrote in a post to X responding to the oversight panel. “You did not. They told you under oath what they know, but you don’t care. But the former President and former Secretary of State will be there. They look forward to setting a precedent that applies to everyone.”
