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So whether that's foreign intelligence coming into the pizza shop to eavesdrop, whether that's people ordering pizzas to the Pentagon, I don't know. I don't know. But she kind of comes out of this deposition as the one that did not perform the best. Hillary Clinton overall, from what I can see, a lot of people like her like her deposition. However, this next part is pretty monumental. This is going to be the first time a former US President has testified to a congressional panel since gerald Ford in 1980. He says, this is Bill Clinton. He's sitting there, and, like, we haven't seen Bill Clinton in a really long time either. He's so old, I. I think that he might be dealing with some sort of health issue. He reminds, because my grandfather had Parkinson's, every time he grabs his water, he's incredibly shaky. A lot of people have associated that with him being guilty. That's his tell. Some people have said that him drinking water is the tell. Other people have taken a step further to say, like, he's so nervous. People have made short clips and memes of it. I definitely think that he has some sort of condition where he's shaking quite a bit. But he says, first of all, good morning to you all. You know, welcoming to you all to our hometown. I appreciate you coming here. I'm here today basically for two reasons. First of all, I love my country and the Constitution. And I believe America was built on the idea that no one is above the law, especially presidents, and that we should all live by the same set of rules shaped by the Constitution. Democracy requires every person to play their part. And I hope that being here today, we can bring ourselves a little further away from the brink and back to being a country where we can dissuade, disagree civilly, and search for truth and justice. So he goes on to state that the second reason why I'm here is that the girls and women whose lives Jeffrey Epstein destroyed deserve not just justice, but healing. They've been waiting way too long for both. He states that he was only briefly acquainted with Jeffrey Epstein, and it ended years before his crimes even came to light. So this is pre 2008. He never witnessed anything in their limited interactions. But he wants to help the doj. He wants to help the House Committee to make sure that they can all prevent something like this from happen, happening again. He also mentions that his wife, Hillary Clinton, should not have to answer to anybody. Basically, in more eloquent words, he states that she's got nothing to do with Epstein. There's one singular picture of them shaking hands when Epstein came to the White House, and that is it. However, quote, on the other hand, I do think you should be talking to me. I think you should have called me. I did take those plane trips with him, and you have the right to ask those questions. So I'm glad to be here, and I understand what the oath is. I'll have to be honest with you. I'll be 80 years old if I live to my next birthday. I don't remember everything that happened 24 years ago, but I do remember some things. And I will tell you what I remember as best as I can. But I will say just before we go into the deposition, there is an uncomfortable moment later on where Bill Clinton is asked if he's ever lied under oath or during a deposition, to which he responds, no, but we all know that he technically has lied under oath before regarding the Monica Lewinsky situation where he states that he did not have sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. And we all know that that was not true. So some people think that that's damning evidence as is and that we should look at the deposition with a different perspective. Just knowing that. 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You just got out of the White House. You're trying to start your own foundation, the Clinton Foundation. You're trying to cure aids. You're trying to do all this stuff. He's got a massive jet and he can fly you around you and your entire Secret Service detail because you can't fly by yourself these days because you know you just got out of the White House and he can help you set up your nonprofit to provide life saving AIDS medications to as many people around the world as possible. And because you just got out of the White House, it hadn't been funded yet. So that's great. He kind of insinuates that Epstein was just a means to an end for the foundation and that a lot of people who cared more about the work that Clinton was doing, they would get involved later. So that's why Bill Clinton stopped hanging out with Epstein. Quote, I thought Mr. Epstein was an interesting man, but I didn't think he was really invested in what I was doing. But he asked all these questions he did ask about economics and politics. He never asked me anything untoward. And I'd always, you know, over the years with these donors, try not to overstay my welcome. I thought that we had done enough, and then it was time to start working with other people. Which side note about Larry Summers, before we move on, he has resigned from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard. So remember, he was then president, but then he was working as a professor. And then the Epstein files came out, and then he gave this whole, like, weird Epstein lecture to his students. He also stepped down and parted ways with the New York Times, Bloomberg and OpenAI. He was on the board, I believe, or some advisory or something like that. But Bill Clinton interestingly describes Epstein as a vacuum cleaner. How would you describe your substance of conversations with Jeffrey Epstein during the many hours that you spent together on the aircraft? At first, he really seemed like a vacuum cleaner. There was nothing overtly manipulative about it. He just wanted to know, what did I think of derivatives trading? Did I think that the stock market was properly regulated or did it need more? And it was great for the. The first two, three, four or five conversations. But I could just tell that it was like, I mean, you guys are in politics. He's talking to the committee members. Don't you ever just feel like somebody's, you know, sometimes somebody's talking to you and then they're just checking the box and they gotta go meet some, do something else, meet somebody else. That's the way I felt. So he's saying it felt like Jeffrey Epstein just wanted to say he knew Bill Clinton, which is kind of alarming. The House Committee wants to know if perhaps Epstein was trying to get specific information out of Bill Clinton. I mean, that would be a huge concern for national security. If, let's say, a trafficker has blackmail against, very well connected politically, one of the most powerful people on the planet, what could happen then?