Let s stop the games Hillary Clinton calls for testimony in Epstein probe to be public

Here in Washington, a gauntlet from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She says she is ready to testify before that House committee looking into the Jeffrey Epstein files but she wants to do so live for the whole world to watch. This is President Trump says it's time for America to move on from the Epstein files. Scripps News national correspondent Alex Miller is live in New York City. She's been tracking these stories since day one. Alex, both Clintons are scheduled to testify before month's end. Safe to say the fight though with the Clintons is just now starting to heat up. Oh yeah, the former Secretary of State just ratcheted up this between the Clintons and with the House Oversight Committee. They had agreed to testify as they were facing a contempt of Congress vote. But what we had heard initially was that that we had heard that they were going to testify behind closed doors with a video camera and how we were going to get those video clips was still being worked out. Now the Secretary of State says that she wants to testify in a public hearing. Putting this out on social media earlier today, I want to read you the entire post. She says, for six months we engaged Republicans on the Oversight Committee in good faith. We told them what we know under oath. They ignored it. They moved the goalposts and turned accountability into an exercise and distraction. Then she goes on to say, so let's stop the games. If you want this fight, Congressman James Comer, let's have it in public. You love to talk about transparency. There's nothing more transparent than a public hearing, cameras on. We will be there. She's essentially challenging them, Del, at least in part because there's a very real possibility here that the committee or a future committee could subpoena the sitting president rather or the first lady, both of whom are mentioned in this latest document dump, at least in some capacity. And you heard the president saying yesterday afternoon, singing former President Bill Clinton's praises a little bit. Listen. It bothers me that somebody's going after Bill Clinton. See, I like Bill Clinton. I still like Bill Clinton. What do you like about him? I liked, well, I liked his behavior toward me. I thought he got me, he understood me. Obviously you're hearing the sitting president now with a very real realization that there is a potential that he could be asked questions as well. He says he's been questioned before, but what that looks like is very much unclear. And Secretary Clinton spending hours before the House Benghazi committee, so she's familiar with exactly how this would go. We're also just days away from Ghislaine Maxwell, her testimony before that same committee. What will that look like? Well, she is set to testify on Monday. Remember, she's still serving a prison sentence in Bryan, Texas. She was moved to a much lower security prison over the summer. Something that survivors told me they were really angry about, particularly because they found out through the media that this was even happening. Maxwell is supposed to sit down with the committee for a closed-door deposition. But since she's in prison, it will happen virtually. But you have a lot of uncertainty there about what exactly she's going to testify to. We know the Department of Justice talked to her over the summer and it didn't give us much information about that conversation. Congresswoman Nancy Mace, who sits on the House Oversight Committee, posting this yesterday afternoon on X, saying that she hears that Ghislaine Maxwell is planning to plead the fifth in her deposition on Monday, going on to say that it's not about self-incrimination anymore, it's about self-preservation for her, says the American people deserve to know their names, they deserve to be investigated, and they should rot in jail. I reached out to Mace's office to see if we could speak with her about this or for a little bit more clarification on this, as well as to the committee, Dell. They did not respond to our request this morning. Alex, I need not to remind you, we're now a week away from the release of those 3.5 million pages that dropped. But the fallout on an individual basis is arguably being felt more and ocean away, especially in UK. Yes, in the UK, absolutely. Between the leader of the UK, Keir Starmer, taking the fallout for appointing an ambassador who had involvement in these files, as well as now former Prince Andrew, there's a lot more reckoning happening there, I would say, than what we are seeing here. No one technically has lost their job that was mentioned in these files, though the chairman of Paul Weiss, one of the leading law firms in the nation, deciding to step aside. I want to read you what he said, at least in part there. He is deciding to step aside because of his involvement in this, as well as Peter Atiyah, here's the comment, he says, leading Paul Weiss for the past 18 years has been the honor of my professional life. Recent reporting has created a distraction and has placed a focus on me that is not in the best interest of the firm. So he is stepping aside. But his successor also worked on a deal with Epstein as well. So there's still a lot of questions about this. But as you mentioned, Del, we have not really seen a lot of fallout here in the United States from this. Scripps News National Correspondent Alex Miller for us live in New York. Alex, thank you very much.