Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) questions FBI Director Comey on Hillary Clinton Email Investigation (C-SPAN)

the cpan networks bring you long form public affairs programming from the nation's capital and are a public service of your television provider cpan created by cable good morning director Comey uh secretary Clinton said she never sent or received any classified information over her private email was that true our investigation found that there was classified information sent so it was not true right that's what I said okay well I'm I'm looking for a little shorter answer so you and I not here quite as long secretary Clinton said there was nothing marked classified on her emails either sent or received was that true that's not true there were a small number of portion markings on I think three of the documents secretary Clinton said I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email there is no classified material was that true there was classified material emailed secretary Clinton said she used just one device was that true she used multiple devices during the four years uh of her term as secretary of state Secretary Clinton said all work rated emails were returned to the state department was that true no we found work rated emails thousands that were not returned secretary Clinton said neither She nor anyone else deleted work-related emails from her personal account was that true that's a harder one to answer we found traces of work rated emails u in on devices or in slack space whether they were deleted or whether when a server was changed out something happened to them there's no doubt that they work-related emails that were removed electronically from the the email system secretary Clinton said her lawyers read every one of the emails and were overly inclusive did her lawyers read the email content individually no well in the interest of time and because I have a plane to catch tomorrow afternoon I'm not going to go through any more of the false statements but I am going to ask ask you to put on your old hat false exculpatory statements they are used for what well either for the a substantive prosecution or for evidence of intent in a criminal prosecution exactly intent and consciousness of guilt right is that right right consciousness of guilt and intent uh in your old job you would prove intent as you just referenced um by showing the jury evidence of a complex scheme that was designed for the very purpose of concealing the public record and you would be arguing in addition to concealment the destruction that you and I just talked about or certainly the failure to preserve you would argue all of that Under The Heading of content you would also intent you would also be arguing the pervasiveness of the scheme when it started when it ended and the number of emails whether they were originally classified or upass classified you you would argue all of that under under the heading of intent you would also probably under common schem or plan argue the burn bags of daily calendar entries or the missing daily calendar entries as a common scheme or plan to conceal two days ago uh director you said a reasonable person in her position should have known a private email was no place to send and receive classified information you're right an average person does know not to do that this is no average person this is a former first lady a former United States Senator and a former secretary of state that the president now contends is the most competent qualified person to be president since Jefferson he didn't say that no wa but he says it now she affirmatively rejected efforts to give her a state.gov account she kept these private emails for almost two years and only turned them over to Congress because we found out she had a private email account so you have a rogue email system set up before she took the oath of office thousands of what we now know to be classified emails some of which were classified at the time one of her more frequent email rades was in fact hacked and you don't know whether or not she was and this scheme took place over a long period of time and resulted in the instruction public records and yet you say there is insufficient evidence of intent you say she was extremely careless but not intentionally so uh you and I both know intent is really difficult to prove very rarely do defendant announce on this date I intend to break this criminal code section just to put everyone on notice I am going to break the law on this date it never happens that way you have to do it with circumstantial evidence or if you're Congress and you realize how difficult it is to prove specific intent you will formulate a statute that allows for gross negligence my time is out but this is really important you mentioned there's no precedent for criminal prosecution my fear is there still isn't there's nothing to keep a future Secretary of State or president from this exact same email scheme or their staff and my real fear is this it's what the chairman touched upon this double track justice system that is rightly or wrongly perceived in this country that if you are a private in the Army and you email yourself classified information you will be kicked out but if you are Hillary Clinton and you seek a promotion to commander-in-chief you will not be so what I hope you can do today is help the average person reasonable person you made reference to the reasonable person understand why she appears to be treated differently than the rest of us would be with that I would yield back

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Views: 204,512

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Length: 6min 11sec (371 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 07 2016

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[u/Jlanderos92]

Didn't see this part of the interview posted anywhere else. I wonder is lying during a congressional hearing is illegal?

[u/76willcommenceagain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8FtqzdiYFU