congressman jason chavitz chairs the committee. ee leej yeah cummings is the democratic on the panel. you're watching live coverage here on c-span3. >>> come to order. an important hearing today. appreciate you all being here. i've got to tell you, i wish i didn't have to compel you to be here. we asked you as legislative liaisons. we can declare a recess at any time. we have a couple of goals for the hearing in our investigation and our need to do our constitutional duty. one, the fbi needs to produce its full investigative file to the united states congress. i mean the full file. not just the parts the fbi deemed relevant. right now, we have only the 302s hand picked by the fbi. we decide what's relevant. not the department of justice. not the fbi. we're entitled to the full file. two, all unclassified portions of the file should be released to the public as quickly as possible. it has been more than 20 days since i'm sure the very first foia request was put out there, and by law, that should be out there. i want to commend the f

herring, chairman chavitz has not been able to view these documents, the reason he hasn't been able to see them, is because the republican chairman of the intelligence committee has not allowed him to do so. the documents were produced and given to the intelligence committee, and the intelligence committee has a process by which they release the documents to people, and he has the same clearance as any other member of congress who is not on the intelligence committee, and so the reason he hasn't been able to get them is the reason he hasn't been able to get them is because his own party's leadership has not voted to give him this clearance. now, as i understand it, the fbi produced a small subset of these e-mails only to the intelligence committee. and according to house rules, the intelligence committee has the jurisdiction over certain agencies, and these agencies report to the intelligence committee. so it has a process in place. and for any member who's not on the intelligence committee to see these documents, they need to send a letter to the committee, which chairman chavitz did.

he spoke with chairman chavitz personally and he told him enough is enough. in response to chairman to rush to call today's emergency hearing, he dashed out letters as late as thursday night, threatening even more subpoenas. the problem is that he invited the wrong people. the witnesses here today are the legislative affairs staffers from the fbi and other agencies. they did not make the decisions the chairman is upset about. those decisions were made by none other than director comey. the chairman has a problem with director comey, he should take it up with him. not beat up on legislative affair staffers, because the fbi director wants no part of any partisan charade. the fbi legislative affair staffer has been in his job for just a few weeks, mr. hearing, and is currently serving in an acting capacity. he has been very responsive with our committee. and makes no sense to hammer him just because he is following the directives of his boss, director comey. the whole hearing is a bait and switch. i have the invitation letters right here. and the chairman says t

burt's bees purchased the structure where burt chavitz lived and moved it to the headquarters in durham. his house was damaged by a fire. burt's bees hopes to open the humble single shingled home to the public in november. >>> today is your final chance to catch the durham bulls in action in 2016. a special day game. the first pitch is at 1:05. the team will pull out all the stops. his go cart. >>> we love this story. good new this is morning about an animal so many of us love to see. the giant panda is now off the endangered list. an international conservation group says the panda is now classified as a vulnerable instead of endangered species thanks to aggressive conservation efforts. the group says the pandas' numbers in the wild in southern china are growing. the panda population jumped from about 1,600 in to about 1,800 in 2014. chinese agencies have been enforcing bans on poaching and expanding forest reserves. >>> it's only labor day, but have you already seen decorations for christmas? i -- 110 days left till christmas. the new phenomenon allowing retailers to extend the holiday

burt's bees purchased the structure where burt chavitz lived and moved it to the company headquarters in durham. . burt's bees hopes to open the humble cedar shingled home in norfolk tides today with a special day game. the first pitch is at 1:05. the team will pull out all of the stops with the season's last game. one last lap by willie bull on his go cart. >> have to wait till next spring to get out there and see it. >>> good news about an animal of us love to see. they're now off the endangered list. now is classified as vulnerable instead of endangered. it's all thanks to aggressive conservation efforts. the group says the panda's numbers in the wild there in southern china are growing. it's jumped from about 1600 in 2004 to more than 1800 in 2018. chinese agencies have been enforcing bans on poaching and expanding forest reserves. >> now they can live in peace. >> exactly. >> and reproduce and have a lot of cute baby pandas for us to >> we'll have videos of pandas from now on on the morning news. good thing. >> i like that. >>> have you already seen decorations for christmas? . >

attorney, the republican chairman jason chavitz says the department should investigate and determinether secretary clinton or her employees and contractors violated, cover up of evidence material to a congressional investigation. and the congress than said his committee will continue to investigate and hold hearings. >> i don't think hillary clinton gets it, the fact of the matter is they did not look at this and the house of representatives also a branch of government also gets to look into this. of course we will do hearings and get to the truth of this. >> the fbi director did say in july that they did not look at whether the federal records law had been violated by clinton and her team, but critics say the e-mail issue is dead and that the republicans just have to move on. >> nevertheless there could be a possible obstruction charge. so what are you hearing about that? >> the possible charge of obstruction would really hinge on the timing. on march 3, 2015, a preservation order was issued for the clinton e-mails. on march 31, they found clinton legal team held a conference call w

. >> reporter: a top house republican, jason chavitz sent a letter urging him to examine why a computer specialist deleted secretary clinton's e-mail archives in march of 2015, even after a congressional subpoena had been issued. >> what did she do or not do at those documents, because the proximity and the timeline is stunning. >> reporter: clinton accused him >> i believe i've created so many jobs in the machine factory, because honestly, they never quit. >> reporter: tclinton was asked monday and yesterday why the e-mails were deleted and she claimed she didn't know anything about how it happened. even though it happened a year and a half ago now. norah. >> nancy, thank you. >>> both candidates will appear on the same stage tonight, answering questions from military veterans and active service members. trump said lasht be a much better commander in chief than clinton, and the republican nominee hit hopponen hard on the e-mail servers. major garrett is in pennsylvania. good morning, major. >> reporter: good morning. for weeks now, hillary clinton has tried to make donald trump's fitne

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