Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are now objecting to their private depositions before the House Oversight Committee being recorded on video, appearances they previously agreed to as part of the committee’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

The dispute threatens to derail the Clintons’ scheduled Feb. 26 and Feb. 27 depositions.

The Clintons eventually caved and agreed to testify, a move that had halted a potential House floor vote to hold them in criminal contempt of Congress after months of negotiations between their legal team and congressional investigators.

Bill Clinton publicly framed the process as partisan in a Friday statement.

“Chairman Comer says he wants cameras, but only behind closed doors, Clinton said.

“It serves only partisan interests.

“This is not fact-finding, it’s pure politics.”

He added:

“I will not sit idly as they use me as a prop in a closed-door kangaroo court.”

The objections come despite the Clintons’ prior agreement to sit for sworn questioning under negotiated terms.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) responded by pointing to correspondence showing videotaping procedures were discussed throughout negotiations with the Clintons’ attorneys.

Recording depositions, Comer noted, is standard congressional practice.

“The Clintons are now pushing a false narrative to play victim,” Comer said.

Comer also emphasized that public hearings remain possible, but only after the Clintons complete the depositions they already committed to.

“The Clintons can have their hearing after completing the depositions they agreed to,” he added.

The distinction is significant.

Depositions involve extended questioning under oath.

Public hearings, meanwhile, are structured around timed statements and limited exchanges, formats that shape how testimony reaches the public.

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Gordon Brown has urged police to interview Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor as part of a new investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and his 'Lolita Express' private jet.

The former prime minister encouraged officers to question the disgraced royal while looking into sex trafficking by the paedophile financier through Stansted Airport.

He said women were moved from one Epstein plane to another at the hub in Essex, with the BBC uncovering evidence of incomplete flight logs that showed unnamed passengers were labelled as 'female' and names of male passengers also unknown.

Mr Brown wrote in the New Statesman: 'In short, British authorities had little or no idea who was being trafficked through our country, and for whom other than Epstein.'

He added: 'I have been told privately that the investigations related to the former Prince Andrew did not properly check vital evidence of flights. I have asked the police to look at this as part of the new inquiry. The Stansted revelations alone require them to interview Andrew.

'Separately, a line of emails concerns the logistics of registering trafficked girls for English-as-a-foreign-language courses, as a route to obtaining US visas. We need to know if and to what extent this was also happening in the UK.'

Also in the UK, ex-victims' commissioner Dame Vera Baird urged police to 'start properly investigating' Andrew; while the MP who heads the Commons Women and Equalities Committee said Andrew must answer to the police and Parliament.

They all spoke out as a senior US politician claimed the woman pictured on the floor under Andrew at Epstein's New York mansion was a sex trafficking victim.

Three images of the former prince crouching over an unidentified woman in the paedophile financier's home were among the Epstein files released on January 30.

The undated pictures have no captions but were released in a document of 100 pages of photographs, and also appear to show Andrew touching the woman's abdomen. Another unidentified person's feet can be seen up on a table in the background.

While the context remains unknown, California congressman Ted Lieu asked for the images to be shown at the House Judiciary Committee in Washington DC yesterday.

He made the claim about the woman being a sex trafficking victim while questioning US Attorney General Pam Bondi over why Andrew has never been prosecuted.

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