At one point in his deposition, Bill Clinton is asked whether Trump should pardon or grant clemency to Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking victims for Epstein.

“I don’t think I should comment on that,” says Clinton.

Referring to Maxwell’s arrest, he says: “This was really hard for me when it came out.”

“We were friendly with Ghislaine,” he says.

He adds: “I was sad. But it was terrible what she did and she should be punished. Somebody besides me should make a decision on what it is.”

Maxwell has repeatedly asked Trump to grant her clemency.

In his answer about clemency, Clinton adds that he thinks Trump made a “mistake” when he pardoned the Trump supporters who participated in the riot on Capitol Hill in 2021.

During the testimony last Thursday, Republican Lauren Boebert asked Hillary Clinton about “Pizzagate”. It’s a debunked conspiracy theory that a paedophilia ring linked to Hillary Clinton’s inner circle was operating out of a Washington DC pizzeria.

After a bit of back and forth between Clinton’s lawyer and Boebert about what exactly the lawmaker is asking, Boebert clarifies that she is asking if Clinton has reviewed any Epstein files that reference “Pizzagate”.

“Pizzagate was totally made up. It was an outrageous allegation that ended up hurting a number of people,” Clinton answers, adding “I can’t believe you’re even referencing it”.

Boebert asks a few more questions about Pizzagate, which Clinton’s lawyers object to.

“How many times did Ghislaine Maxwell visit your home” in Chappaqua, New York, Republican Nancy Mace asks Bill Clinton, more than four hours into the video of the deposition.

“I have no idea,” the former president says.

“Who invited her?” Mace asks.

“I don’t know,” says Clinton. “Hillary had political events there.”

“I will volunteer something,” Clinton continues, as his lawyers advise him to stop speaking.

“She was never in my house in Chappaqua for personal reasons.”

On his past ties to Maxwell, who is the convicted associate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, he says: “There’s a logical explanation. We didn’t know.”

Asked how Maxwell managed to dupe so many powerful people, Clinton says he “thought about it a lot” but doesn’t know the answer.

In the video of her testimony, Hillary Clinton is asked several times about any interactions she had with Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite convicted of sex trafficking.

Clinton says she has no recollection of speaking with Maxwell at the wedding of Clinton’s daughter Chelsea in 2010.

She says there were more than 500 people at the wedding, and she was mainly focused on her daughter.

Maxwell attended as the guest of a longtime friend, Clinton says.

In his opening remarks to the House Oversight Committee, Clinton denies that he knew of any wrongdoing by Epstein, and says he hopes that his involvement in the Epstein investigation will “prevent something like this from happening again”.

Clinton says he was only a “brief acquaintance” of Epstein, and that their relationship “ended years before his crimes came to light”.

He also shared his concerns for Epstein’s victims.

Watch a clip from the beginning of his testimony below.

During Hillary Clinton’s deposition, Republican Nancy Mace asks if she was concerned when she saw photos of her husband in the Epstein files, including one of Bill Clinton in a hot tub.

Clinton says she is not here to offer opinions or to speculate.

Mace then presses the issue, asking several more questions about how Clinton felt.

Clinton reiterates that she will not be answering this line of questioning.

We’re still watching through the two videos that have been released by the House Oversight Committee.

The two videos combined go for nine hours and nine minutes.

There’s no official transcripts available yet, so finding key moments from the behind-closed-doors sessions that were held last week is taking some time.

There are some moments from the testimonies that lawmakers, and the Clintons themselves, spoke about to the media last week.

But there’s likely other interesting parts of their testimony that we won’t know about until we’ve finished watching the entirety of the footage.

Several hours into Hillary Clinton’s hearing, Republican Representative Eric Burlison says he’d like to begin his questioning with some “light-hearted questions”.

He says that Laurance Rockefeller spearheaded an effort to get government files about UFOs declassified under Bill Clinton’s presidency. He then says that while Hillary Clinton was running for president, one of her advisors publicly said she would release those UFO files if elected.

Burlison then asks Clinton if she’s pleased now that these files may be released. Last month, Trump directed US government to prepare a release of files on UFOs and aliens.

Clinton answers that she is pleased, adding: “I think whatever can be disclosed should be disclosed”.

Clinton is asked about an email sent to Ghislaine Maxwell from his top aide Doug Band and whether the account it was sent from belongs to him.

“Practically no. I never sent one email on it,” he begins.

He says that at the time, about nine months after he left office, he did not even own a phone. He recalls only two times in his entire life that he has ever sent an email.

Clinton reiterates that he did not send emails using the WJC address – initials for William Jefferson Clinton – that his top aide, Doug Band, had told Maxwell he and his boss “share”.

The email address appears hundreds of times in the files released by the US justice department. Band corresponded with Maxwell from the address, including flirty emails in which she called him a “super stud” and complimented his physical prowess.

Clinton is seen reading a print-out of that email as a congressman reads it into the record. He chuckles at one of the crude comments, and at one point appears to shake his head in disbelief and utters “unbelievable”.

“I did not know, nor did I need to know, that they had a personal relationship,” he says. He says that, as far as he knew, Band only spoke to Maxwell in a business capacity.

He adds that he does not know whether his former top aide had a “physical relationship” with Maxwell.

Band did not respond to messages seeking comment from the BBC last month. He told the New York Times previously that he did not have a romantic relationship with Maxwell.

More now on Bill Clinton’s comments about Donald Trump, which were picked up by Democrat lawmakers on the day of his deposition.

As we reported below, Clinton says Trump told him: “We’ve had some great times over the years. But we fell out. All because of a real estate deal.'”

Maxwell Frost, a Democrat on the House Oversight committee, said last Friday that Clinton’s comments “directly refutes Trump’s claims about why he fell out with Epstein”.

The White House has said that Trump kicked Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club “for being a creep”, though it has been reported in the past that the pair fell out over a Palm Beach estate.

Trump was a friend of Epstein’s for years, but the president has said they fell out in the early 2000s, two years before Epstein was first arrested. Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein.

In the middle of his deposition, Bill Clinton is asked whether US President Donald Trump should be compelled to testify to the committee.

“That’s for you to decide,” he says. “But he did know him well.”

Clinton then takes the moment to comment on a personal conversation he once had with Trump about Epstein around 2002 or 2003.

“[Trump] never said anything to me to make me think he was involved in anything improper with regard to Epstein either. He just didn’t. He just said: ‘We were friends and then we had a falling out over a land deal, property deal.’ That’s all.”

He says the conversation took place on Trump’s golf course during a fundraising event.

Trump, he says, must have known that Clinton had previously flown on Epstein’s plane.

He says Trump told him: “We’ve had some great times over the years. But we fell out. All because of a real estate deal.'”

“And he said: ‘I’m sorry that happened.’ That’s all.”

Clinton is asked if he recalls who brought up the topic of Epstein.

“No, but I’d be shocked if I did. I just don’t do that,” he responds.

Asks if Trump elaborated on his times shared with Epstein, Clinton says Trump did not put any “sexual spin on” the conversation.

We’re bringing some more of the reaction by Hillary Clinton’s team to the leaked photo, which we reported on a little earlier.

The hearing was paused for a break and, when it reconvenes, Clinton’s lawyer scolds the committee for the image of her at the hearing leaked to the public.

“We find it unacceptable,” Clinton’s lawyer says. “We find it unprofessional and we find it unfair. We are looking forward to this being conducted under the rules and being conducted consistent with expectations.”

Committee chairman Comer says it will not happen again, and adds that he is also disappointed that Clinton’s opening statement was leaked to the press before her hearing began.

Clinton’s lawyer corrects Comer, saying the opening statement was not leaked. Clinton herself had posted it on social media.

Clinton does not speak during this exchange between her lawyer and Comer.

About halfway through his deposition, Bill Clinton is asked about a photo released by the US justice department showing him in a hot tub.

The congressman asking the question says the public is interested in knowing the “context” and “details” of the photo.

“I don’t think I ever knew the photo was taken,” begins Clinton.

He says he’s “almost sure” the photo was taken in Brunei, at the end of a “long” trip across Asia.

“The Sultan of Brunei was a man I had gotten to know well in my eight years as president,” Clinton recalls.

He adds that the Asian leader wanted to help with the Clinton Global Initative, his international development foundation, and suggested a hotel for him to stay in while he was visiting.

He said “I want you to stay at this hotel and I hope you will use the pool. So I did. And then I got out, and went to bed, exhausted”, Clinton says with a chuckle.

Asked about another person in the photo, whose identity is edited out by the justice department, Clinton twice says: “I don’t know who that is.”

He adds that there were other people in the nearby pool, which was adjacent to the hot tub, and that they were all part of his travelling party, and that no children were present.

“I sat in the hot tub for five minutes, or whatever it was, and I got up and went to bed,” he says.

Asked by the congressman whether any sexual activity occurred that night, he responds no.

About an hour into Hillary Clinton’s deposition, one of her lawyers informs the room that a photo from inside the deposition room has been leaked to the public.

The lawyer asks how this is permissible given the closed-door rules of the hearing, and particularly considering how Clinton and her team had requested a public hearing from the beginning but were denied.

“I am done with this. If you guys are doing that, I am done. You can hold me in contempt from now until the cows come home. This is just typical behaviour,” Clinton says, clearly angered by the leak.

A lawmaker then admits to sharing a photo from inside the room, but she says it was before the hearing began.

Clinton bangs her fist on the table and says “It doesn’t matter. We are all abiding by the same rules.”

“I am done,” Clinton says, standing up from her chair. The hearing then goes off the record.

The two videos just released by the House Oversight Committee show both Bill and Hillary Clinton answering questions.

Bill Clinton, the former Democratic president, is seen in his video flanked by lawyers. He wears a digital watch with an orange wristband and an American flag pin on his lapel. Throughout the video, which is over four hours, he is seen sipping from a coffee mug, rubbing his face and occasionally smiling and donning reading glasses.

Hillary Clinton wears a blue outfit and gold jewellery on her wrist. The former First Lady, senator and secretary of state is also seen with lawyers at her sides, who are seen occasionally taking notes. She also is seen holding a pen and taking her own notes at times as she asks each lawmaker to identify themselves before they ask questions.

There are two separate videos which have been shared by the House Oversight Committee.

• Bill Clinton’s video is 4 hours and 33 mins.
• Hillary Clinton’s is 4 hours and 35 mins.

There appears to be moments that have been deleted because they are off the record.

Videos of Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton’s testimonies to US lawmakers – which took place behind closed doors last week – have just been released.

The Clintons’ depositions to the House Oversight Committee were focused on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Both Bill and Hillary have denied knowledge of Epstein’s crimes and have not been accused of wrongdoing in connection to him.

We’re watching the videos now and will bring you updates here.

Ahead of their respective depositions, both Bill and Hillary Clinton publicly shared the opening statements they would be making the committee.

Both deny any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes

• “I had no idea about their [Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s] criminal activities,” Hillary Clinton said. “I never flew on his plane or visited his islands, homes or offices. I have nothing to add”
• Bill Clinton also said he had “no idea of the crimes Epstein was committing”, adding “I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong”

Criticism of the House Oversight Committee

• “Too often Congressional investigations are partisan political theater”, said Hillary Clinton at the start of her statement, adding later that the Republican-led committee had “made little effort to call the people who show up most prominently in the Epstein files”

• Bill Clinton condemned the summoning of Hillary before lawmakers: “Whether you subpoenaed 10 people or 10,000, including her was simply not right.” He also said he hoped the “search for truth and justice outweighs the partisan urge to score points”

Both also emphasised support for abuse victims

• “I have spent my life advocating for women and girls”, said Hillary Clinton, who pointed to her work supporting female victims of abuse both as First Lady and as a secretary of state
• Bill Clinton drew from his personal experience, stating that “as someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse”, he would have turned Epstein in had he known of his crimes

The starkest difference between the two statements is that – though he characterises it as a “brief acquaintance” – Bill Clinton acknowledges that he knew Jeffrey Epstein and promises to “offer what little I know”.