Tracy Mumford

Today's Friday, February 27th.

Here's what we're covering.

In a closed-door meeting yesterday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sat for a deposition that stretched more than six hours as members of the Republican-led House Oversight Committee questioned her about Jeffrey Epstein.

Clinton, along with her husband, the former president, had spent months trying to fight congressional subpoenas to testify, calling them invalid and politically motivated.

They only agreed to appear after they were threatened with contempt of Congress.

At that point, they asked for their testimony to be public so anyone could watch.

Republicans refused.

But yesterday, a Republican member of the committee, Representative Lauren Boebert, leaked an image of Clinton from inside the room, which was immediately posted to social media by a right-wing podcaster.

That almost derailed the whole session.

Clinton abruptly paused her testimony before eventually agreeing to continue.

Some of the Democrats on the Oversight Committee condemned the deposition, saying that Republicans weren't focused on the people with the closest ties to Epstein.

They noted that their GOP colleagues all skipped a deposition last week of Leslie Wexner, the billionaire Republican donor and former head of Victoria's Secret, who helped Epstein build his wealth.

Clinton also pointed out that she was asked some questions about things that had nothing to do with Epstein at all, including the Pizzagate conspiracy and UFOs.

Republican members of the committee, meanwhile, said they were looking ahead to Bill Clinton's testimony, which is scheduled for today.

He flew on Epstein's plane several times after leaving office, and there are many photos of him in the Epstein files.

It will be the first time a former U.S.

president has been compelled against his will to testify in front of a congressional committee.

In New York City yesterday, the arrest of a college student by immigration agents set off a frantic chain reaction that roped in the city's mayor and President Trump.

Around 6 in the morning, ICE agents wearing plain clothes showed up at Columbia student housing.

According to university officials, they demanded to be let inside, claiming they were police officers searching for a missing child.