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“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart said Wednesday during his speech that former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should “absolutely” comply with their congressional requests.
Stewart answered a question from the audience about whether the Clintons should comply with the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Both Clintons defied subpoenas to appear before the committee this week.
“Of course I do,” he said. “But why should they comply if the Justice Department won’t comply with the release of the files? Like, is compliance some kind of special opportunity for personal heritage, or should it be universal? I mean the Justice Department subpoenaed them to testify in the Jeffrey Epstein trial when they didn’t comply with the release of the files.”
“So how does that comport in any way — but do I think they should be compatible? Abso-f—ing-lutely. Absolutely,” Stewart said during his “Weekly Show” podcast.
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Former President Bill Clinton at the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2025, in Washington, DC Jon Stewart attends the Comedy Central “The Daily Show” FYC event at the Linwood Dunn Theater on June 7, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Hillary Clinton at 92NY on January 28, 2025, in New York City. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images; Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Comedy Central; Dominik Bindl/Getty Images)
“And if they are hiding something or having an affair, like him, we should know about all this,” continued Stewart. “This is strange, how long will this go on. But they have to comply and the Department of Justice has done that, and these victims of this terrible crime should finally get the justice and peace they deserve.”
The Clintons did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
The House Oversight Committee, not the Department of Justice (DOJ), subpoenaed the Clintons to testify.
Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., confirmed to reporters Wednesday that the Clintons would face punishment.
“I [Epstein estate] comply with our official request. [Former Attorney General Bill Barr and former Trump Labor Secretary Alex Acosta] he came in and was kicked out because of our legitimate requests. This same legal request was given to the Clintons, they defied it,” said Comer.
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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer talks to a person who interrupted him as he spoke to reporters after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton failed to appear during a closed-door hearing in the Rayburn House office building on Capitol Hill January 14, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
The Clintons’ attorneys criticized Comer’s leadership of the investigation in their letter, dropping the subpoenas.
“The President and Secretary Clinton have already released the limited information they have about Jeffrey Epstein once Ghislaine Maxwell in the Committee,” said the lawyers.
“Your continued insistence that the former President and Secretary of State can be compelled to appear before the Committee under these circumstances, however, brings us into a protracted and unnecessary legal dispute that interferes with the primary work of Congress on this matter, which, if done in good faith, would help ensure that the victims of Mr. Epstein and Ms. Point.”
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband, former US president Bill Clinton. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the President Donald Trump signed in November, the DOJ was required to “publish (in a searchable and downloadable format) all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials in the DOJ’s possession related to the investigation and prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein.”
The DOJ said in a letter to US District Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York earlier this month that “there are more than two million documents potentially responsive to this Act that are in various stages of review.”
To date, the DOJ has released an estimated 12,285 documents totaling approximately 125,575 pages, less than 1% of all records potentially related to the case, according to Axios. Although many files remain, the DOJ said it believes a “significant portion” of the documents are duplicates.
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Fox News’ Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.
