I don't like seeing him deposed, Trump says of Clinton
We've just been hearing remarks from US President Donald Trump about Bill Clinton's deposition to the House Oversight Committee.
“I don’t like seeing him deposed," Trump says. "But they certainly went after me more than that.”
Bill Clinton is being cooperative, Republican says
Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna has just given an update on how Bill Clinton's deposition is going so far.
She says the former president is being cooperative and the committee is getting a "clearer picture".
She adds that she won't provide further details as the deposition is still ongoing.
Bill Clinton to face longer and more tense questioning
Nada Tawfik
Reporting from Chappaqua, New York
The political temperature is really heating up on day two of these depositions.
Before the start, we heard from both Republicans and Democrats on the committee and their description of the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s demeanour and credibility couldn’t have been more different.
Republican representative Nancy Mace claimed Clinton was unhinged at one point in the deposition.
But Democrats, in disbelief, said that was beyond a mischaracterisation.
The public will be able to decide for themselves when the video is eventually made public.
Today’s deposition is expected to be far more tense and to last a lot longer.
Unlike his wife, former President Bill Clinton has several documented trips and interactions with Epstein when he was trying to set up his charitable work post presidency.
It was before Epstein was under federal investigation for sex trafficking and Clinton says he regrets his association with him and never knew of his crimes at the time.
Democrats say they will ask Clinton hard questions, but that the wrong president is giving evidence today.
Clinton says he will not speculate or 'play detective'
In the last page of Clinton's statement, he says he is only there because Jeffrey Epstein hid his crimes from everyone "so well for so long".
"I saw nothing, I did nothing wrong," Clinton says.
"You’ll often hear me say that I don’t recall. That might be unsatisfying. But I’m not going to say something I’m not sure of. This was all a long time ago. And I am bound by my oath not to speculate, or to guess," Clinton says.
"It doesn’t help you for me to play detective 24 years later."
He finishes his statement by saying: "Since I am under oath, I will not falsely state that I am looking forward to your questions. But I am ready to answer them to the best of my abilities."
Bill Clinton: 'Hillary had nothing to do with Epstein'
More now from Bill Clinton's opening statement to the committee.
"Before we start, I have to get personal," he says.
"You made Hillary come in. She had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. Nothing. She has no memory of even meeting him."
He adds that "as someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse", he would never have flown on Epstein's plane if he "had any inkling of what he was doing".
"I would have turned him in myself," Clinton says.
'I saw nothing, I did nothing wrong': Bill Clinton's opening statement released
We've just received Bill Clinton's opening statement to the House Oversight Committee.
In it, he says he "had no idea of the crimes Epstein was committing".
"I know what I did, and more importantly, what I didn't do. I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong," he adds.
We'll bring you more from his statement shortly.
We're talking to the wrong president - Democrats
We're now hearing from Representative Suhas Subramanyam, a Democrat, who says they will ask former President Bill Clinton "the hard questions".
He adds that they are "talking to the wrong president today" and calls for Trump, who has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, to testify.
Trump is "the one who is blocking our investigation", he says.
"President Trump is the one who wants this to go away, but it will not go away," he says.
Garcia calls for Trump to testify
Garcia says Republicans have set a new precedent by bringing in a former president to testify.
He says the committee wants US President Donald Trump to come in and do the same.
Garcia says "it's time" for Trump to answer questions about "why files are missing" from the US Department of Justice's release of documents related to its investigation into Epstein.
Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in relation to the Epstein case. The justice department has said nothing has been deleted from the files, and that documents were withheld only if they were "duplicates, privileged, or part of an ongoing federal investigation".
Comer: Clintons' depositions took months to arrange
Comer says it's very difficult to get people in to these depositions.
He says it took seven months "to get the Clintons in here, but we've got them in here and we look forward to asking lots of questions that I think any curious media outlet in America would have".
He says that about a dozen times yesterday, Hillary Clinton deferred questions to her husband Bill.
What is a deposition?
A deposition is basically just a legal term used in US proceedings where one party is gathering information from a source. It is a witness or party's sworn testimony, given under oath.
Oral depositions, which the Clintons are undergoing this week, do not involve a court.
In this case, the House Oversight Committee - a small and powerful group of US lawmakers, is administering and supervising. All parties are allowed to ask the witness questions.
In today's session, there will be alternating one-hour rounds of questions. The Republicans will start, because they have the majority in the committee. Then the Democrats will take their turn.
