Elijah Cummings of Maryland.ĮLIJAH CUMMINGS: Today House Republicans are doing what they always do - using taxpayers' money to continue investigating claims that have already been debunked just to keep them in the headlines one more day. Democrats on the panel blasted their adversaries for engaging in political theater. Instead agents took notes that Republican lawmakers want to see. JOHNSON: But the FBI director says there's no evidence Hillary Clinton lied to investigators in a three-and-a-half-hour interrogation last weekend. JAMES COMEY: Our investigation found that there was classified information sent. TREY GOWDY: Secretary Clinton said she had never sent or received any classified information over her private email. Republican Trey Gowdy of South Carolina pressed the FBI director about Hillary Clinton's public claims. Director James Comey says they should have known better than to conduct government business on an unsecure server set up at Clinton's home. JOHNSON: This week the FBI concluded Clinton and her close aides at the State Department were extremely careless. And they might be on their way to jail, and they probably should. JASON CHAFFETZ: It seems to a lot of us that the average Joe, the average American, that if they had done what you laid out in your statement, that they'd be in handcuffs.
Jason Chaffetz, a Republican from Utah, says he worries about a double standard. First here's NPR justice correspondent Carrie Johnson.ĬARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE: Leaders of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee say they're mystified about how Hillary Clinton could have walked away from the FBI investigation with no criminal charges. Soon we'll hear about whether other federal employees would receive the same treatment.
Republicans wanted to know why Comey did not think Hillary Clinton should be prosecuted for using a private email server while she was secretary of state even though he said she acted with extreme carelessness. FBI Director James Comey spent much of today responding to angry lawmakers on Capitol Hill.