Hillary Clinton and Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina engaged in a sharp confrontation during a congressional deposition held last Thursday in Chappaqua, New York.
The House Oversight Committee released footage of the heated session on Monday.
The deposition centered on a range of questions posed by Mace to the former Secretary of State.
At one point, Mace directed questioning toward Clinton’s familiarity with Howard Lutnick, the former chief executive officer of Cantor Fitzgerald and the current Secretary of Commerce under the Trump administration.
Clinton stated she first encountered Lutnick in the immediate wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, during her tenure as a Democratic U.S. senator representing New York.
She described knowing Lutnick specifically in his role leading Cantor Fitzgerald, a firm that sustained devastating losses on that day.
The company lost more than 650 employees in the attacks.
Clinton went on to relay that Lutnick had survived because he had brought his child to kindergarten that morning and was not present in the towers when the planes struck.
Mace interrupted, stating she was already familiar with those details. At that moment, Clinton raised her voice and pointed her finger at the congresswoman.
“You asked the question, I am going to answer your question, this is what I spent my time doing,” Clinton said.
Mace raised her voice in return. “Now you are going to yell at me?” she asked.
The South Carolina congresswoman identified herself as a “survivor trying to look out for other survivors.”
She also stated it had taken six months to arrange the deposition and accused Clinton of being “indignant.”
Clinton fired back, stating she was “taking care of the people who lost 3,000 lives at World Trade Center,” adding: “You asked me about Howard Lutnick.”
The exchange escalated when Mace alleged Clinton has emails demonstrating she “tried to get Jeffrey Epstein to give money to you.”
Clinton began to respond: “If you have an email of me asking Jeffrey Epstein for money —” before Mace pressed forward with her line of questioning.
Mace claimed she possesses an email from Lutnick addressed to Epstein and his associates, soliciting funds for what she described as “an intimate event for you at his offices at Cantor Fitzgerald.”
She then addressed Clinton directly: “Your decision today — obfuscate and say to this committee, you didn’t try and get money from Jeffrey Epstein.” Clinton interjected: “I didn’t.”
Mace continued: “That there was an intimate event in an email that Howard Lutnick emailed to Epstein’s people and Epstein to get him to come to your intimate event at Cantor Fitzgerald, a very small event.”
She then said: “I am not going to put up with it. If you are going to yell at me that’s fine, I’ll yell right back. I am doing the job that you would not do and refused to do as Secretary of State,” before yielding her time.
Clinton said she was “sympathetic” to Mace’s “personal situation” and her efforts on behalf of alleged survivors.
She reiterated her role representing victims of the September 11 attacks during her time in the Senate.
Clinton stated that no individual lost more people that day than Lutnick, describing him as “the man who lost the employees that he knew intimately including his brother.”
She noted that she attended memorial services in the years following the attack before the exchange concluded.
