Instead, you have compelled me to testify, fully aware that I have no knowledge that would assist your investigation, in order to distract attention from President Trump's actions and to cover them up despite legitimate calls for answers. This institutional failure is designed to protect one political party and one public official, rather than to seek truth and justice for the victims and survivors, as well as the public who also want to get to the bottom of this matter.
I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong. Even with 20/20 hindsight, I saw nothing that ever gave me pause. We are only here because he hid it from everyone so well for so long. By the time it came to light with his 2008 guilty plea, I had long stopped associating with him.
Republicans were there to ask the former first family about Bill Clinton's relationship with Epstein, including his four trips on Epstein's private jet in the early 2000s prior to his conviction for soliciting a minor, as well as photos of Bill Clinton in the Epstein files. Bill Clinton's testimony scheduled for Friday would be the first time a former president has been compelled by subpoena to testify against his will in a Congressional investigation.
"The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show was pure smut," Ogles declared on X, "brazenly aired on national television for every American family to witness. Children were forced to endure explicit displays of gay sexual acts, women gyrating provocatively, and Bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his crotch while dry-humping the air." Ogles went on to say that Bad Bunny's "lyrics openly glorified sodomy and countless other unspeakable depravities."
I think it's something that James Comer, if he's actually being honest about Congress being a separate and coequal branch of government. We don't work for Donald Trump. We don't work for JD Vance. We don't work for their billionaire donors. We work for the American people, and Congress, in its role as a separate and co-equal branch of government, should make sure that the administration comes clean as it relates to the president's ability to do his job at the level that the American people deserve.
And now, in what may be his most career-defining moment yet, Hegseth is confronting questions about the use of military force and demands he release the videotapes after a special operations team reportedly attacked survivors of a strike on an alleged drug boat off the coast of Venezuela. Some lawmakers and legal experts say the second strike would have violated the laws of armed conflict.
A congressperson investigating the Jeffrey Epstein case accused the former prince, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, of hiding from his committee's request to sit for a deposition, as Congress moves closer to a key vote on forcing release of US government files related to the alleged sex trafficker. Suhas Subramanyam is among the Democratic members of the oversight committee in the House of Representatives who earlier this month asked Mountbatten-Windsor to sit for a deposition as part of its investigation
The investigation will explore how the California Volunteer Fund spent a $500,000 grant it received from the disaster-relief charity FireAid. Two House Republicans launched an investigation on Wednesday that will, in part, examine how a California charitable organization used a $500,000 grant that was meant to support victims of the deadly Palisades and Eaton fires, a move that is expanding congressional scrutiny over the response to the disaster.
