Former President Bill Clinton denied having any knowledge of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes during a six-hour closed-door deposition Friday in front of the House Oversight Committee. Clinton’s sworn testimony marked the first time a former U.S. president has been compelled to testify before Congress. He’s also the most high-profile figure to respond to questioning following the release of the Epstein files. This is part of Clinton’s opening statement, which he shared on social media.

Bill Clinton: “I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong. As someone who grew up in a home with domestic violence, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing, I would have turned him in myself and led the call for justice for his crimes, not the sweetheart deal he got.”

Clinton’s testimony came one day after his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, told the committee she didn’t know Epstein.

Bill Clinton flew on Epstein’s private jet several times in the early 2000s, and he also appears in a photo with Epstein and a woman, whose identity was redacted, sitting in a hot tub; Clinton adamantly denied knowing the woman in his congressional testimony.