#house-oversight-committee

#house-oversight-committee

WASHINGTON -- Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton finalized an agreement with House Republicans Tuesday to testify in a House investigation into Jeffrey Epstein this month, bowing to the threat of a contempt of Congress vote against them. Hillary Clinton will testify before the House Oversight Committee on Feb. 26 and Bill Clinton will appear on Feb. 27. It will mark the first time that lawmakers have compelled a former president to testify.

By the time Jeffery Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl, he had established an enormous network of wealthy and influential friends. Emails made public this week show the crime did little to diminish the desire of that network to stay connected to the billionaire financier. Thousands of documents released by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday offer a new glimpse into what Epstein's relationships with business executives, reporters, academics and political players looked like over a decade.

On Wednesday, through a series of emails made public, we saw the most concrete evidence yet of the ties between Epstein and Trump. A 2011 email from Epstein to Ghislaine Maxwell, his partner who was later convicted of sex trafficking, claimed that Trump had "spent hours at my house" with one of Epstein's victims, and that it "has never once been mentioned" by police. Epstein called Trump a "dog that hasn't barked."

Just like D.C. home rule was won out of Black freedom struggle and the fight for civil rights, we can't be passive right now. So, nobody over there should take anything we sayso personally, as if we're attacking them. No, we're attacking a process we're not attacking people here, Tlaib said addressing her Republican colleagues. And I think it's really important, we need to stand up against this fascist takeover that's not a bad word, it's a fact, Tlaib continued.