The day is finally here.

Former President Bill Clinton will testify in a closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee over his ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Ahead of Clinton’s deposition, the former president released his opening remarks.

CNN provided more details on Clinton’s open statement:

Former President Bill Clinton said he only had a “brief acquaintance with [Jeffrey] Epstein” that ended “years before his crimes came to light” and that he never saw “what was truly going on” with the late convicted sex offender, according to his opening statement to lawmakers Friday morning in the House’s Jeffrey Epstein probe.

“The girls and women whose lives Jeffrey Epstein destroyed deserve not only justice, but healing,” Clinton said in the remarks, as prepared for delivery, posted on X. “They’ve been waiting too long for both. Though my brief acquaintance with Epstein ended years before his crimes came to light, and though I never witnessed during our limited interactions any indication of what was truly going on, I am here to offer what little I know so that it might prevent anything like this from ever happening again.”

Clinton also said: “I know what I saw, and more importantly, what I didn’t see. I know what I did, and more importantly, what I didn’t do. I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong.”

Clinton previewed that he would “often” say “I don’t recall” on Friday, given how many years it has been since his interactions with Epstein, and he predicted that that would be “unsatisfying” to lawmakers.

Clinton also told the panel that it was “simply not right” to bring in his wife, Hillary Clinton, for a deposition the previous day.

Take a look:

As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing—I would have turned him in myself and led the call for justice for his crimes, not sweetheart deals. pic.twitter.com/0rX8cat5Pu

— Bill Clinton (@BillClinton) February 27, 2026

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Bill’s deposition comes just a day after his wife testified before members of the House Oversight Committee.

The Hill provided Hillary Clinton’s remarks at a press conference following her deposition:

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday criticized questions she said she got from House Republicans about UFOs and the “Pizzagate” conspiracy during her deposition as part of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

“It then got, at the end, quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and a series of questions about Pizzagate — one of the most vile bogus conspiracy theories that was propagated on the internet — that was serving as the basis of a member’s questions to me,” Clinton told reporters after her deposition in Chappaqua, N.Y.

She added, however, “I want to commend Chairman [James] Comer [R-Ky.] for raising a series of significant questions that I responded to about the nature of the investigation and the areas that I thought should be explored. So I appreciated that, I want to see the truth come out. So that was a reassuring way to end a very long, repetitive deposition.”

Clinton said she answered “every one” of the committee’s questions as fully as she could based on what she knew.

“I thought it was very repetitive,” Clinton later said. “I thought that they literally asked the same questions over and over again, which didn’t seem to me to be very productive. And then, as I said toward the end, there were several questions that were off-subject.”