Clintons give evidence

FORMER secretary of state Hillary Clinton was yesterday giving evidence before US House legislators in New York as part of a congressional investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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It kicked off two days of depositions that will also include former US president Bill Clinton.

The closed-door depositions in the Clintons’ hometown of Chappaqua, a typically quiet hamlet north of New York City, yesterday come after months of tense back-and-forth between the former high-powered Democratic couple and the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee.

It will be the first time that a former president has been forced to give evidence before Congress.