Former President Bill Clinton flatly insisted Friday there was nothing improper about his relationship with the sex predator and financier Jeffrey Epstein.

“I had no idea of the crimes Epstein was committing,” Clinton told members of Congress during a sworn deposition in which lawmakers planned to ask about photos of him in Esptein’s company.

“No matter how many photos you show me, I have two things that at the end of the day matter more than your interpretation of those 20-year-old photos,” Clinton said, according to a written opening statement he posted online. “I know what I saw, and more importantly, what I didn’t see. I know what I did, and more importantly, what I didn’t do. I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong.”

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said before the depostion that Republicans would ask Clinton about the images of him with Epstein.

“I think everyone’s seen there are a lot of photos that have been released by the Department of Justice, as well as to say there’s a lot of email correspondence that included President Clinton,” Comer told reporters before heading into the deposition in the Clintons’ hometown of Chappaqua, New York.

During a break in the hearing, Comer told reporters that in response to a Democrat’s question about whether the committee should interview President Donald Trump, Clinton said it was up to the committee and that he hadn’t heard Trump say anything “to make me think he was involved” in Epstein’s crimes.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the committee’s top Democrat, said it wasn’t an accurate characterization of what Clinton said. He had said at the outset there would be a serious deposition.

“We have real questions that deserve serious answers from former President Clinton, and we have said from day one that Democrats want to talk to anyone, whether they are a Republican or a Democrat, no matter how powerful we are with the position that they’ve been in,” Garcia said.

While Democrats declined to share details from the room, Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) suggested Clinton gave them material they could use to question Trump about the end of their friendship two decades ago.

“I can tell you we all now have a lot of new questions that we have to raise as it relates to the reasoning on why Donald Trump had a falling out with Jeffrey Epstein in the first place,” Frost told reporters.

Images of the former president have figured prominently in the batches of files the Justice Department has released, under orders from Congress, from its archive of investigative material from the sex trafficking case against Epstein, who died while facing charges in 2019. President Donald Trump and other famous people have popped up repeatedly in the files as well.

Neither Clinton nor Trump has been implicated in Epstein’s crimes.

Flight passenger manifests show Clinton traveled repeatedly on Epstein’s private jet in the early 2000s. The former president has said he accepted the flights because the plane could accommodate his staff and Secret Service detail on trips to promote his international charity work. He’s said he was unaware of Epstein’s sex crimes, which came to public attention years later.

Comer’s committee subpoenaed both Bill and Hillary Clinton for their testimony about Epstein on a near-unanimous bipartisan basis.

During her deposition on Thursday, the former first lady deferred several questions to her husband, lawmakers said, including queries about the photos, at least one of which appears to show Clinton in the company of a younger woman on Epstein’s plane.

“She didn’t want to answer any questions about any of that, and deferred most, if not all, of those questions to her husband, and he will be thoroughly asked about that today,” said Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.).

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