Clintons agree to testify in House investigation of Epstein

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have agreed to testify in a House investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

This as the US Justice Department said it had withdrawn several thousand documents and media related to the disgraced financier after lawyers complained to a New York judge that the lives of nearly a hundred victims had been turned upside down by sloppy redactions in the government's latest release of records.

Rep. James Comer, the chair of the House Oversight Committee, was advancing criminal contempt of Congress charges against both Clintons Monday evening for defying a congressional subpoena,

when attorneys for the Clintons emailed staff for the Oversight panel, saying the pair would accept Comer's demands and will appear for depositions on mutually agreeable dates.

Bill Clinton, like a bevy of other high-powered men, had a relationship with Epstein in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He has not been accused of wrongdoing in his interactions with the late financier.

This as British politician Peter Mandelson faces pressure to quit House of Lords over Jeffrey Epstein ties. Mandelson, who was the former UK ambassador to Washington,

quit the Labour Party Monday over Epstein file revelations.

Meanwhile, the pressure is growing on Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, by U.S. congressmen and even British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to tell lawyers representing victims what he knows about Epstein. But the last time he spoke out he saw his reputation destroyed.

Danica Kirka, The Associated Press said: "Ultimately, he was stripped of his titles and the ability to be called Prince, he's now called Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

Experts say he's really unlikely to face this, to face any sort of questioning again but victims advocates say he really should. He really should because it would help the victims put together the broad jigsaw of what happened to them at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein."

And U.S. President Donald Trump continued to distance himself from Epstein, even though his name appears more than one thousand times in the Epstein files.

Trump said he had never been to Epstein's island and threatened to sue comedian and former TV host Trevor Noah who joked at the Grammys Sunday that he had.

"He said that I spent time on Jeffrey Epstein's island. I didn't. He made a statement about me and Jeffrey Epstein. I have nothing to do with that," Trump said.