Bill Clinton plans to testify that he did nothing wrong and had “no idea” about the crimes Jeffrey Epstein was committing — nor did he see anything that “ever gave me pause” — according to his prepared opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

“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,” the former president said in his statement, which he posted on X.

The prepared remarks also lambasted the Republican-led committee for demanding testimony from his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who spent over six hours answering questions Thursday during her own deposition.

She testified that she does not recall meeting Epstein and denied any knowledge of his sex trafficking offenses with longtime co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.

“Whether you subpoenaed 10 people or 10,000, including her was simply not right,” he said in the statement.

In contrast to Hillary Clinton’s opening statement, which referenced Epstein and Maxwell’s “criminal activities,” Bill Clinton’s statement makes no mention of Maxwell.

The former president said he is in Chappaqua testifying in compliance with a congressional subpoena because “no person is above the law, even Presidents — especially Presidents.”

He continued, “I hope that by being here today, we can bring ourselves a little further away from the brink and back to being a country where we can disagree with one another civilly–where the search for truth and justice outweighs the partisan urge to score points and create spectacle.”

Bill Clinton has maintained he was an acquaintance of Epstein’s but stopped communicating with him at least a decade before the late financier’s arrest in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges. Neither he nor Hillary Clinton has been accused of wrongdoing.

The White House made a new Homeland Security funding proposal to congressional Democrats late Thursday as a partial shutdown of the sprawling department enters its third week.

The two sides have struggled to make progress since the funding lapse began Feb. 14, with the Senate failing Monday to advance legislation that would restore the flow of cash to agencies dealing with matters ranging from immigration enforcement to airport security to cyber infrastructure.

“Democrats need to make a move to end the shutdown before more Americans are harmed by a lack of funding for critical services like disaster relief,” a White House official said, describing the latest proposal as a “serious counter offer.”

Two other people granted anonymity to discuss the private negotiations confirmed that the White House sent its latest offer Thursday. No congressional action is expected until the middle of next week at the earliest, with the Senate out of town until Monday and the House not voting until Wednesday.

The White House official’s warning about disaster relief comes after President Donald Trump pointed to a recent snowstorm that clobbered parts of the Northeast in urging Democrats to end the partial shutdown during his State of the Union speech. FEMA officials said earlier this month that the main federal disaster fund “has sufficient balances to continue emergency response activities for the foreseeable future,” but expected new disbursements could drain it quickly.

Democrats have vowed to block DHS funding until they get changes to Trump’s immigration enforcement tactics after federal agents killed two people in January in Minneapolis. Enforcement agencies like ICE and Border Patrol, however, have been largely unaffected by the shutdown due to funding put in place last year by the party-line GOP megabill.

Democrats haven’t yet weighed in on the latest White House offer. But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said this week that Republicans have not meaningfully changed their position as talks have continued.

“They’re just trying to pass paper back and forth with no real changes,” Schumer told reporters.

Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are gearing up to spend hours today grilling former President Bill Clinton about his relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and longtime co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell.

It comes on the heels of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s over six hour deposition Thursday, in compliance with a subpoena issued by the panel as part of its longrunning Epstein investigation.

Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) told reporters in Chappaqua, New York, that members plan to ask about Epstein’s visits to the White House during the Clinton administration; Epstein’s emails boasting that he helped set up the Clinton Global Initiative and the Clinton Foundation; and photographs released by the Department of Justice that show the former president with unidentified women.

Comer was flanked by Republican Reps. Eric Burlison of Missouri, John McGuire of Virginia, Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin, as well as South Carolina Reps. Nancy Mace and William Timmons.

“No one’s accusing anyone of any wrongdoing, but I think the American people have a lot of questions, and our House Oversight Committee is committed to getting answers,” Comer said during a news conference before the deposition, adding that Hillary Clinton at several points the day before punted questions to her husband.

Bill Clinton has maintained he was an acquaintance of Epstein’s but stopped communicating with him at least a decade before the late financier’s arrest in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges. His spokesperson Angel Ureña said on social media in 2019 that Bill Clinton traveled on Epstein’s plane four times internationally in 2002 and 2003, adding that Secret Service details were present “on every leg of the trip.”

Hillary Clinton, during her testimony, denied ever meeting Epstein and said she had no knowledge of his or Maxwell’s crimes.

“I think it is fair to say that the vast majority of people who had contact with [Epstein] before his criminal pleas in ‘08 were like most people,” she told reporters Thursday. “They did not know what he was doing, and I think that that is exactly what my husband will testify to tomorrow.”

Republicans at their Friday morning news conference said they were unconvinced, citing an email from Epstein saying the former secretary of State “looks better in person.” Mace claimed Hillary Clinton was “screaming” during the deposition.

“She was unhinged, and I hope that President Clinton is less unhinged today than his wife was yesterday,” Mace told reporters.

Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the committee, called that an unfair characterization.

Garcia and other Democratic members of the committee — Reps. Yassamin Ansari of Arizona, Wesley Bell of Missouri and Maxwell Frost of Florida, as well as Virginia Reps. Suhas Subramanyan and James Walkinshaw — each took turns speaking to the press before Bill Clinton’s deposition. They decried Republicans’ lines of questioning during Hillary Clinton’s testimony, saying it underscored the need for President Donald Trump to come before the committee, too.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who helped lead the charge to force the Justice Department to release the Epstein files, said Friday that Bill Clinton’s historic deposition sets a new standard for Oversight investigations overriding the so-called “Trump rule,” referring to the current president’s defiance of a congressional subpoena of the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attacks on the Capitol.

“Now we have the Clinton rule, which is: The presidents and their families have to testify when Congress issues a subpoena,” Khanna said. “And that means that Donald Trump needs to come before our committee and explain what he knew about Epstein and explain why we have not had a full release of the documents.”

Trump has maintained he had a falling out with Epstein years before his 2019 arrest and had no part in Epstein’s criminal activities.