with foia across five different secretaries of state. yet the republicans splashed only one picture across the advisory they sent to the press. a picture of secretary clinton. the ig identified four of the challenges under secretaries albright, powell, rice, clinton, and kerry. but republican memo for today focused only on one. you guessed it. secretary clinton. last night we obtained an e-mail in which secretary powell back in 2009 provided advice to secretary clinton on how to skirt security rules and bypass requirements to preserve federal records. although secretary clinton has made clear that she did not rely on this advice, in this e-mail, secretary powell appears to admit that he did it, did this himself. he also said he disregarded security warnings and used his personal mobile device inside the state department's secure space. now let me make it very clear. secretary powell is the man i admire greatly. and i have tremendous respect for secretary powell and his decades of service to our nation, despite the poor judgment shown in

operates and the foia law. you are an avid practitioner of the foia law. >> amongst other descriptions, but yes. >> what's your sense of how well foia works today in sort of demanning transparency from -- whether it's from the agency or other elements? >> good question. i think that -- i'll keep it focused on the intelligence agencies. largely everything is classified. so if i'm filing a foia request or subsequently a lawsuit that, you know, requires the declassification, i think that on the administrative side, just sending it in, it's terrible. it does not work well. it's only when moving to the litigation stage that it actually has results. and that's just results in terms of production. but then you have to deal with a whole different set of issues, which is what we have been discussing, you know, the whole time, which is this is redacted for this reason, this reason, this reason. and i challenge it. sometimes i win. and then, you know, we find out that oh, this really didn't have to do with national securi

>> i'm not a foia guy. they're not all completed for the other 302s. >> are there any that are completed? >> i don't the status. >> we'll go into that tomorrow. let's recognize the gentleman from pennsylvania for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. herring, i want to give you a better chance to answer some of my colleague mr. meadow's questions. first of all, your title is you are the acting assistant director for congressional affairs of the fbi. is that correct? >> that's correct. >> and you're in that post for how long? >> about a month. >> did you say you used to work for mr. goodlot? >> i did a detail to the hill, to judiciary, for about 15 months. >> ok. was that reporting to mr. goodlot? >> certainly did. i was actually technically assigned to the crime subcommittee. >> and the goodlot we're talking about is the republican chairman of the house judiciary committee. is that correct? >> yes, sir. >> now you just were hammered with all of these yes or no questions, and i could see you having t

the rest are coming through the foia process. >> wait. foia process. you mean i have to fill out a foia request. >> you can. not necessary. >> when -- here's the problem. you hand picked the 302s to give to us, my understanding of discussion with staff. i appreciate your ack becessibi. this a tough hearing, and but the reality is, you should give us all the 302s. >> let me say this. i think that the director made principle decisions about what to say to congress when he was here and what to provide to congress. >> wait. where do i find that? we let everybody in government decide based on their own individual principles, that's what -- see, it is trust but verify is how it works. you don't get to decide what i get to see. i get to see it all. i was elected by some 800,000 people to come to congress and seek classified information. i was elected by my colleagues here to be the chairman of this committee. that's the way our constitution works. will the fbi provide to congress the full file with no redactions of personal identifiable information. >> i cann

it's a substantially different right then foia. foia is a statutory right.s said in this area you can only get things that are not properly classified. to go back to judge williams' question, that's the standard in foia. >> that's a different question. you're talking about standard best standing. everybody has standing under foia. you don't have to show the i need this document or it's going to help me or anything. just i want the document, period. >> i was going back to judge williams' question. >i'm having a little trouble hearing you. >> if something is awry in the public, as you point out -- is a right in the public, as you point out the supreme court said, then it is hard to see how there is any more standing requirement than to be a member of the public. >> is not an issue in this case. there is no question of standing. the government hasn't raised it. it has been discussed in some of the court cases, but there is no issue here. i want to go back -- >> the questions of the hazards of a broad reading. it raises a question about the hazards of a broad re

the rest are coming through the foia process. >> wait. foia process. you mean i have to fill out a foia request. >> you can. not necessary. >> when -- here's the problem. you hand picked the 302s to give to us, my understanding of discussion with staff. i appreciate your ack bellcessibility. -- accessibility. this a tough hearing, and but the reality is, you should give us all the 302s. >> let me say this. i think that the director made principle decisions about what to say to congress when he was here and what to provide to congress. >> wait. where do i find that? we let everybody in government decide based on their own individual principles, that'stht what -- see, it is trust but verify is how it works. you don't get to decide what i get to see. i get to see it all. i was elected by some 800,000 people to come to congress and seek classified information. i was elected by my colleagues here to be the chairman of this committee. that's the way our constitution works. will the fbi provide to congress the full file with no redactions of personal identifi

>> i'm not a foia guy. they're not all completed for the other 302s. >> are there any that are completed? >> i don't the status. >> we'll go into that tomorrow. we have gone past our time. let's recognize the gentleman from pennsylvania for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. stern, i want to give you a better chance to answer some of my colleague mr. meadow's questions. first of all, your title is you are the acting assistant director for congressional affairs of the fbi. is that correct? >> that's correct. >> that's correct. >> and you're in that post for how long? >> about a month. >> did you say you used to work for mr. goodlot? >> i did a detail to the hill, to judiciary, for about 15 months. >> ok. was that reporting to mr. goodlot? >> certainly did. i was actually technically assigned to the crime subcommittee. he was the chair of that. >> and the goodlot we're talking about is the republican chairman of the house judiciary committee. is that correct? >> yes, sir. >> now you just were hammered

at least the foia requires responses within 20 days.he presidential record act will make those records available in the chelsea clinton administration. but you have to wait a long time for that to happen. brian: going back to your quote, the government does not want you to know what they're doing -- when you say the government, how much of that is the top level, political appointees, versus the government bureaucrats that have a full-time job for 30 years? tom: the bureaucrats process is in the ordinary course. delaying comes from either politicized bureaucrats at senior levels or the schedule c appointees, the political appointees, the cabinet heads and their immediate staff. they can slow walk the release of information, and that is usually responsible for the delays in our experience. brian: if you are going to give an award to any government agency or person that you have worked with over the last -- 1998 since you have been on judicial watch, for responding to the freedom of information act positively, who would it be? tom: the sta

they don't have all the information to comply with the foias. secretary clinton heard her legal team destroyed information. that's what we have to remember. hillary clinton and her legal team got to decide on the front end which ones they kept, which ones we got. the ones they did destroy they said weren't work related. but the f.b.i. said there were 1 -- 17,000. the state department isn't complying because they don't have them. lou: i think there is a certain fatigue setting in with the american public on this issue. the scandal has been raging over years now. and we are learning little by little, and i think like nearly everyone who is not fatigued by it, i salute you and other members of congress who are proceeding and pushing for every scrap of information you can get from the state department. at the end of the day, this will be decided by an election that's two months away. >> here is two new pieces of information. the f.b.i. only looks at the classification issue. they did not look at whether destruction of documents took place. we know t

east on that specific concern, the court said under foia it could not be disclosed. the district said, by the same approach, applying this deferential standard, that there was no logical basis presented in the materials submitted by the court why -- and if there ever was a case where the public should be entitled to see this sort of record evidence, it's here. this is a case involving the treatment in the judicial system of detainees being held at guantanamo. as the judge said, it is of utmost importance that the public understand these proceedings are being done for -- fairly. she turned down the preliminary injunction. she said this is not illegal. she turned around and said that the american people have the right to know the decision on which this basis has been made and they have the right to know what has been happening here. this is a case where the decision is clearly appropriate. i think the government is concerned that it didn't meet the standard. they are asking this course -- court to throw out the standard because they didn't meet it, and that would be fu

. >> somebody who has a foia outstanding for about five years, i understand your question. we have a microphone being passed around, so please wait or that. >> thank you for hosting this for him. senator graham, congratulations for what you are doing, insisting that the fax from 9/11, out. as you point out and as the media points out, the 28 pages points out, there were meetings, facts. in san diego, the meeting of the religious director with at least three of the hijackers, and 15 of the 19 were from saudi arabia, and there was money paid from the princes account. those are the facts. but it seems american policy is to hide an office gate. why? -- obfuscate. why when they admit they did not have a problem and then go forward on the basis of honesty saying that now we are fighting terrorism together. is it a matter of democrats and republicans pandering to saudi arabia? i don't understand why we don't take the facts and move on from there. senator graham: i thought i had answer that question earlier, but i will answer, no, this is not a partisan issue. in the house, the eff

are there foias out? why is the fbi, why would the fbi suppress the, those investigations? and what role can the families, or are the families playing? >> you asked several questions, if i don't answer all of them ask -- i think the, the reason that the fbi is doing it is one, it's not doing it on its own of the pattern of behavior from the fbi, cia, the state department, the justice department, the treasury department, has all been consistent. i think the message has gone out from the white house that they do not want any information from saudi arabia to be released. there was interesting an important book written several years ago, by phil, was with the "new york times," shinik. the investigation to 9/11. he pointed out number of times, when information about the saudis role as as aggressively suppress, this is not unique to the fbi venture. >> same way for the mic. >> sorry. and, do you believe that you know, mentioned coming out from the white house, did it start with the bush white house and then it continued to the obama white house? >> then the questions before, have

the good news is over the course of my presidency, we have requests more foia than ever before. and we have worked to make it easier and more transparent, putting more stuff online. but having said all of that, we are actually getting many more requests for foia than ever before. and so, we have had to figure out ways we can reform this to make it easier, faster, cheaper for people to get the information they want. fortunately, congress on a bipartisan basis has provided the tools through legislation to codify some of the reforms we have already made and expand more of these reforms so government is more responsive. i am very proud of all the work we have done to try to make government more open and responsive. i know people have not always been satisfied with the speed with which they are getting responses and requests. hopefully, this is going to help. it will be an important initiative for us to continue on the reform path, so i'm going to sign that right now. blanton: my hope is people on this 50th birthday will say it is good we have the opioid and torture documents that ca

ing weren't they foia' hillary clinton's documents? the obama administration was trying to crack down on the ap for various reasons. earlier in this segment, you were talking about the fact that you thought trump was a threat to press freedom. i don't disagree with that, but the idea that hillary isn't when she has been less than forthcoming with the press, and barack obama has been maybe the worst guy for the press in the modern presidency, is evidence of bias on your part. brian: it is not bias. i would agree with you clinton is also in some ways a threat. trump has taken more explicit steps to curtail the press. there are behaviors that are clinton ising, but no front to the media. it would seem either of these candidates would continue president obama's troublesome relationship with the media. areew: on that note, we going to have to end the conversation. i appreciate it. it's a debate that isn't going to end anytime soon. ben: thanks so much. andrew: ray kelly is here. he was new york city's longest serving police commissioner bef

manipulating, or trying to, the beltway media, when he's the worst in attacking the media, not fulfilling foia freedom of information act requests, or just basically threatening to prosecute reporters as well. >> sabrina, what do you think? is the president right in saying that trump is getting a free ride? >> it's a little bit of a mixed bag from where i'm sitting, david. it always makes me laugh when someone on the left screams about media bias, cry me a river, this is hardly a huge problem for them. i do think the media went a little easy on trump, they've been tougher since the campaign started in earnest. it's been good fodder on both sides. >> to suggest that trump is -- i just showed the headlines, we had a lot more than just those three, to suggest he's getting a free ride seems instantaneoane . >> president obama's remarks are absurd. the media have been very vicious with trump, i would argue with good reason a lot of the time. i just wish they would be equal on both sides. we had a redistributionist surge from clinton and sanders during the primaries, where is the coverage? >> gallup

judicial watch is a 501(c)(3) organization that foia's these documents.hy "the washington post" wasn't doing that or the new york times or you at cnn, it is a question that really ought to be looked at. brian: where i disagree with you is that judicial watch is now a media outlet. all of these groups are now media outlets in the way media matters. i would also say donald trump's campaign and hillary clinton's campaigns are media outlets, as ben smith and other media outlets have pointed out. all of them are now media outlets. we should take that seriously. that has been a change in our media ecosystem. that all of these outlets, all of these nonprofits, all of these companies are media outlets. again it's harder for the , audience at home. it puts more of the onus on us to sort through it all. ben: ok, but the fact is the way judicial watch works, and i know this because i know the folks there -- if they receive documents from a foia request , it is not like they have the power of putting in front of millions of people like cnn. they are 501(c)(3). they p

i do not know if you are aware that there is a big issue going on right now about some of foia request and now lawsuits to try to determine that it appears that the city of washington, d.c. and the department of interior in the parks department have given the trump organization control of the part of pennsylvania avenue in front of the hotel as well as the plaza that has the ben franklin statue which is a national park area. >> what you mean by control? >> control like they can control traffic and therefore potentially limit. >> oh i got to come down for that. [laughter] >> control access. >> thank you for that. >> i thought you should know that whatever way this goes. >> when i will take one more and then we'll get to book signing. >> so i'm a fan, two questions. one is the next season of alpha house do? >> we don't think there'll be one, which is a shame. they actually ordered some new episodes and we went in and wrote them and started to plan for it and then they called and said we change our mind. now, you not going to get me to say anything bad about amazon because i've had this e

here is more foia information. then here is another document, just showing you the progression as we walk through it. to me this is one of the most serious abrogation of constitutional responsibility. this is the federal register in february of 2014, my former boss, jeh johnson, the one that just met with the isna, dropped in the middle of the night a provision in the federal register that even if you only had limited involvement with a known terrorist organization through providing, that the u.s. state department could now give you a visa. that's how far gone we are. that's why we don't know who these people are, and even if we do we still give them visa if they have limited cultural affiliation with known terrorist groups. how many of you knew that was in the federal register? not congress, not executive order, not even a memo or directive from the secretary of an agency. in the middle of the night, signed by jeh johnson, in the federal register. and it's had a macro effect on our immigration policy. and here's t

congress has to wait in line behind foia requesters before we get access to information in a way that we can actually use it as follow-up for our investigation. the way this process is working sets a very dangerous precedent that could undermine transparency, and transparency is essential for accountability in government. frankly, this whole process is an end run around our constitutional oversight responsibility. if an agency wants to slow walk freedom of information requests and give unclassified information to congress with all kinds of strings attached to prevent us from using it, it could easily thwart oversight and accountability for months or even years. i cannot agree to document controls that prevent the committee from doing its job, and the f.b.i. should not ask me to do that. we offer -- we actually offer not to publicly disclose the contents of the documents and to treat them as confidential under senate rules. why is that not enough for the f.b.i. to provide documents before the freedom of information process is complete so that we can use those very same documents in pri

we have been traditionally we do make public our responses to foia requesters.er in a separate lawsuit brought by judicial watch, clinton and her team got an extension until october 13th october 13th to answer questions under oath about her personal server, and whether it was a working around to avoid the federal records act and freedom of information act lawsuits. right now we're looking at court-mandated e-mail releases in october another and the first week of november. >> we're hearing that she -- the server was actually moved around in a van. >> more you read the fbi files the weirder it gets. we know there are new details that show clinton it special y.e., brian pagliano who got a deal and took the fifth on capital hill, pulled the server together by savaging parts from hillary clinton's failed bit against barack obama0. on k state, knicknameed the core 0 door of power, he built the server inside a room once used at part of her campaign headquarters and when it was finish, he told fbi, quote, he rented a minivan and drove to chappaqua, new york to install t

you guys discovered this via your foia request, and you got some e-mails that suggested this, in factwas something that huma was trying to do. you can't do that, but i'll let you explain why. in other words -- >> sure. trish: -- huma would have been violating state department protocols by trying to secure diplomatic passports for clinton foundation members. >> correct. doug band, clinton foundation director, doesn't ask, he tells huma huma abedin to get him and two other associates diplomatic passports. the fact that that occurred is outrageous. i've interviewed two contacts of mine, diplomatic service agents, i can't repeat what they said to me on the phone, it's unbelievable the reaction from the professional staff in the state department. she agrees, she says, okay. she answers back to doug band, okay. doug band admits in the second line of the e-mail he's had diplomatic passports before. how that happened is another great question for the state department. nonetheless, the state department went on the record yesterday saying, their spokesman said president clinton may have been gi

this was a foia request, they released these pictures.st one of those things that we have to show you, okay? and there are more. tomi, alan, thanks for joining us this afternoon, good to have you. >>> hillary clinton meeting at this hour with a number of top national security experts and some of the big names in attendance. it may come as a surprise to republicans, as donald trump continues to attack clinton on her handling of sensitive material. >> if she really didn't remember, that's a problem. and if she did remember, that's a problem. she even said she didn't know what the letter "c" stood for, whether it was confidential, classified. >>> plus new details on a daring military rescue that came up short. the hunt for two teachers held hostage behind enemy lines. >>> and what sources are now revealing about the decision that may have cost the operation. what's it like to be in good hands? like finding new ways to be taken care of. home, car, life insurance obviously, ohhh... but with added touches you can't get everywhere else, like cla

having said all of that, we are getting many more requests for foia than ever before. we have had to figure out ways in which we can reform just to make it easier, faster, cheaper for people to get the information that they want. fortunately, congress, on a bipartisan basis, has provided the tools through legislation to codify some of the reforms and we have already made and to expand more of these reforms so that government is more responsive. and i'm proud of all the work we have done to make government more open and responsive, but i know people have not always been satisfied with the speed with which they are getting responses and requests. hopefully this will help. this will be an important initiative for us to continue on the reform path. i am going to sign that right now. tom blanton: my hope is that people on this 50th birthday will say, that is good that we got the opioid persistent database. that is good we made those torture documents. that is good we know about climate change. that is good we know that the parmesan cheese being sold by target actually does

part of that means being transparent, foia requests, preserving those records. clinton didn't do that. she sledgehammered her devices. she used bleach to erase records under subpoena to preserve. sheer a remarkable lack of transparency. we need to get back to the idea of public servants, not leaving dead broke in her own words. >> she didn't do the hammering and things like that, but it goes to the nature of what was going on around her. does that disqualify hillary clinton, and if not why? >> i don't think it does. there is no criminal activity there. people have looked into this thing, which i do believe is a mistake on her part. you know, it is a real thing, this e-mail issue. but it is not a criminal issue. and the idea that it should be about transparency coming from donald trump, a person who just refuses to even produce his tax returns is -- it just doesn't ring well, i think in most viewers' minds this idea that you would be the person to come forward and say, you're not being transparent and you're not doing something that every presidential candidate i

a judge to look into the deletion of your e-mails, he said he is doing another hearing concerning foian thursday. are you concerned they're just going to continue to dig in to you and are you waerd thorried you win, they are going to keep doing that? >> jen, that's a very good question. jen basically said i think there is a different standard for trump, and do i think that a lot of these issues that are raised about trump are dismissed because somehow the american public has factored in to their assessment of him that that's the kind of guy he is. and a lot of this behavior coming from him seems to be expected somehow. and that's fine if you're a reality tv star or you're a real estate developer. i don't think it is fine if you want to be president of the united states. and i could only say, look, this is not new to me. you could go back and look at a lot of what has been said about me by so many people, going back 25 years. and so it's something that i just accepted. when i'm in office, i work well with republicans and i believe as president i will work well with republicans again. we

but from our standpoint, from foia and from bringing information out to the public, this is somethingto be considered, something to be debated, whether or not this affects how people choose to evaluate her competency and qualifications to become president of the united states and how they'll to vote come november. >> we remember that director comey that i hsaid that regardl whether these e-mails were marked classified, because hillary clinton made a big point of saying that nothing was marked classified, like a stamp on top of that document, he said given her background and her position, she would be expected to understand, obviously, what kind of information is classified and what isn't. >> yeah, and that's, again, this is a very basic kind of thing you would walk through in that security awareness training. it's an online agency portal, is what most people have to do, to recognize not only classification markings but also the type of information that you should understand is reasonably likely to be classified and you should take precautions, whether it's you sending it or, as most o

there is government foia requests that have never gone through. this is simple good government tactic. let me tell you one thing, melissa, if this happened in another country, in a foreign country, we saw a leader who deleted this many, 33,000 of their own personal emails outside of the government, a thousand with the head of centcom equivalent, we would be outraged, we would be saying this is corruption, this is cover-up. let alone whether or not it's a legal issue. it's a public corruption issue. melissa: why would she delete those emails? as you sit and think about it, i mean i thought before maybe she is trying to cover up the tracks from the foundation, and from, you know, pay for play, in that arena. could it be that? i don't know, what is your best guess -- >> i mean a thousand, a thousand emails is bulk, right? it's a lot. in my estimation she is just absolutely doing a fire-sale basically. she is deleting anything that had to do with general petraeus, because she probably remembers in her conversation with him that they had a whole bunch

in fact, the clinton library responded to a foia request today, releasing photos showing bill clinton and donald trump in 2000 looking rather chummy at the trump tower with melania and a former model, who was trump's girlfriend. politics makes strange bed fef w bedfellows. bret? >> jennifer griffin with the clinton campaign, thank you. >>> attorneys for the parents two of of the men killed during the benghazi terror attacks are asking a judge for a default judgment against hillary clinton. the parents of tyrone woods and sean smith are suing clinton for wrongful death, defamation, and other charges. they say she failed to respond to their lawsuit. no comment yet from the clinton team. >>> tune in sunday night at 8:00 p.m. for a live special report. i'll be speaking with the former chairman of the house select committee on benghazi, trey gowdy, on the 9/11 anniversary and the anniversary of the benghazi attacks. "special report" is going six days a week until the election. >>> five women and two men have been arrested for allegedly planning an attack near the notre dame cathedral in pa

these were all out because of a foia request. a freedom of information request. donald trump, bill clinton -- >> who's the playboy bunny. >> -- stand by. yeah, the bunny. who do you think ha is more to lose by these pictures being out? >> well, i think it comports already with our perception of trump. right? to see him in this kind of an environment. there's nothing shocking to me. what it's a reminder of is the one time clubbiness, chummy relationship between all of them. and the fact that when he was married for the third time, the clintons were there. i think that she said, meaning hillary clinton, i think she said, well, she thought it would be entertaining. how unbelievable that not too many years later, now they're the combatants and saying the most ugly of things about one another. >> politics. that's my answer for you. michael smerconish -- >> this year's politics. >> we watch you on saturdays here on cnn, 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern. thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> we are moments away from donald trump and hillary clinton both speaking live on t

we'll have under secretary clinton and some people in charge of foia. we want to bring up the people who make the classifications and the redactions on these documents. the information has shown us should not be redacted. so we want to know about that. and then i want to get at the i.t. geeks. they are the ones who really know what's happening. according to the fbi reports, some of these people evidently pled the fifth. and the time line really doesn't look request for what clinton did with these federal records. >> the majority leader, he got into a lot of trouble when he said the entire thing, benghazi, all of these investigations, in effect he said they're political. look at hillary clinton. look how her numbers have gone down as a result of this. the accusation against you, you're doing this now for political reasons. >> no. hillary clinton chose this time line. she came one this convenient relationship with herself. she's the one who delayed the release of these for so long. even to this day, the state department has still not turned over to congre

the committee has jurisdiction over both the federal records act and foia. we also have a long record of oversight, investigative, and legislative work in this area. the committee subpoenaed mr. pagliano to appear at a hearing on september 13, 2016 he did not show up to that hearing. i explained mr. pagliano was uniquely qualified to provide testimony to help us better understand secretary clinton's use of a private email server. i also made clear the committee would consider all options to his failure to appear, including recommendation he be held in contempt. we heard several hours of testimony from mr. cooper, also involved in setting up secretary clinton's email server. mr. cooper, to his credit, explained a lot. we did appreciate his participation in answering all the questions that this committee asked. throughout his testimony, mr. cooper routinely referred to mr. pagliano as the individual more appropriate to answer questions who knew more about the server. it was clear from mr. cooper's testimony, his words, not ours, that we needed to hear from mr.

>> i'm not responsible for foia at all. i don't have an answer to that. >> you are not familiar with the b-5 exemption? >> i know what it is. i'm not actively involved in that process or making rdactions. >> you don't have any idea who made that decision? >> that is done through our administrative bureau, so i assume someone there would do it as a normal course of action. >> as a normal course of action given that exemption, would anyone outside of state department been consulted? >> we normally do in some cases if there's interagencies -- then try to agree on it. >> so, it would be your assumption, then, that probably there was some consultation? >> i don't know. >> you don't know that, but that would not be uncommon from your understanding? >> fri my understands, my limited understanding of how the process works. >> that particular exemption is among many people known as withhold because you want to withhold exemption. have you heard that expression before? >> no, i have not. >> it's very, very broad. it gives every appea

and also made a foia request to get today's fbi documents released.om, you had some time to comb through some of these documents. what are the most interesting things, newest things, we didn't hear about before? what did you learn? >> mrs. clinton's memory problem is notable. i count 30, 40 times where she said "i don't recall." at one point she said when asked about briefings she may have had about the handling of documents and what she should have done with them when she was leaving office, she said, well, i had a concussion, so i may not remember the meetings. other documents show that the fbi report shows that she kept her blackberry in the secure part of the state department where classified information is discussed and used. and that's in violation of the rules. you're not supposed to have any computer devices like that, unsecured computer devices in those sensitive areas. on top of that she blames everyone else for her classified mishandling. she says "i trusted the others not to send me material that was inappropriate in terms of being classif

foia requests, freedom of information act, we have to bring up people on what are these reactions inlassifications. i want to get to the nerds, the geeks the people who understand. >> you mean the techies? >> the techies. >> i understand that, congressman. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> the president of the philippines expressing regret over vulgar to say the least words he used to describe president obama. ambassador john bolton will be here next t. i thought i had it covered. then i realized managing was all i was doing. when i finally told my doctor, he said humira was for people like me who have tried other medications,... but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohn's disease. in clinical studies, the majority of patients on humira saw significant symptom relief... ...and many achieved remission. humira can lower your ability to fight infections... ...including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers,... including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions,... ...and new o

into the deletion of some of your e-mails and said he's going to do more hearings including one on foian thursday, are you concerned they're continuing to dig into you and if you win, they will keep doing that? >> jen, that's a very good question. basically said is there a different standard for trump than for me? and do i think that a lot of these issues raised about trump are just raised because somehow the american public has factored into their assessment that, you know, that's the kind of guy he is, right? and a lot of this behavior coming from him seems to be expected somehow. and that's fine if you're a reality tv star or you're a real estate developer, i don't think it is fine if you want to be president of the united states. and i can only say, look, this is not new to me. you can go back and look at a lot of what has been said about me by so many people, going back 25 years. and so, it's something that i just accepted. when i'm in office, i work well with republicans. and i believe as president i will work with republicans again. we have a long archive of quite complimentary c

nor did she instruct anyone to delete her e-mail to avoid complying with the federal records act, foiae or fbi request for information. no evidence that clintson sought to approve to conduct state business via her personal e-mail account or private server. in one case a suspicious timing, several weeks after "the new york times" first reported the existence of clinton's private e-mail serve ea number of clinton's e-mails were suddenly deleted. the clinton campaign said this today. these materials make clear why the justice department believed there was no basis to move forward with this case. trump campaign said, the notes from her fbi interview reinforce her tremendously bad judgment and dishonesty. i still don't understand in this day and age with all the technology that we have, how is there fbi protocol that there is no recorder in there and we have no transcript. we're relying on notes. are you kidding me? anyway, we'll be right back with "the lid." real you shine throug? introducing otezla (apremilast). otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psorias

in fact, the clinton library responded to a foia request today, releasing photos showing bill clinton and donald trump in 2000 looking rather chummy at the trump tower with melania and a former model, who was trump's girlfriend. politics makes strange bed fef w bedfellows. bret? >> jennifer griffin with the clinton campaign, thank you. >>> attorneys for the parents two of of the men killed during the benghazi terror attacks are asking a judge for a default judgment against hillary clinton. the parents of tyrone woods and sean smith are suing clinton for wrongful death, defamation, and other charges. they say she failed to respond to their lawsuit. no comment yet from the clinton team. >>> tune in sunday night at 8:00 p.m. for a live special report. i'll be speaking with the former chairman of the house select committee on benghazi, trey gowdy, on the 9/11 anniversary and the anniversary of the benghazi attacks. "special report" is going six days a week until the election. >>> five women and two men have been arrested for allegedly planning an attack near the notre dame cathedral in pa

the freedom of information act request the committee has jurisdiction of the federal records act and foia. the committee succeeded one dash such as the pinatubo bryan pagliano and he did not show up to the hearing. i explained he was uniquely qualified hough to help us understand the private e-mail server but this is the indisputable. to consider all options with the failure to appear including consideration in contempt of the committee heard several hours of testimony and to his credit he did appreciate the participation to answer the questions he asked. was brought his testimony he referred to them as individual more proper it the new more about the of server that we needed to appear from bryan pagliano previous serve because his client took the fifth he should not be required to provide testimony to this committee. that is not a good faith argument. first and foremost, the jurisdiction is limited and in contrast it includes legislative and oversight with the freedom of information act. they are well and outside the upper deal of this committee's investigation. bulky bills were subject

we aren't subject to foia. but that being said, the department of justice talked about this.here is nothing you hear, director comey already said, there is nothing you hear. bill: would you take a hammer to your personal blackberry? >> again, there is -- i don't know about the tactics of every other government official. but this has already been covered. the department of justice stated this is a non-issue and it's time to move on. we want to waste taxpayer money on this, we can. bill: would you instruct a company in nebraska to destroy all your emails and the history of your emails? >> again, i'm not involved in that day-to-day operations of anything of that sort. but this has been covered by the department of justice. we are going to waste more taxpayer money in the hopes of bringing down hillary clinton's poll numbers to help donald trump. estions. time she stood there but if we litigate this again, it's the taxpayer who will end up losing. what do you do with the subpoena? whether it's the beach there bit or the hammer, this is easy stiff for voters to understand and they

. >> the media requests would be a foia request and we made it very clear. >> what is a reasonable time to get the committee a game plan on how to deal with it? >> the legal question about subpoenas, it would be a couple weeks. >> i can certainly try, and talk to legal advisor. >> i will start waving the red flag. and here you by the end of the month. >> when i have to go outside the state department i make no guarantees. >> what do you mean outside the state department? >> the department of justice, outside the state department. they are not under my control. >> i need a good faith effort. thousands of people waiting and wondering how this affects their categories from members of congress and all that. i need a response and a game plan and understand the need. appreciate the work you do it the state department and your attendance today. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] .. [inaudible conversations] >> c-span, created by america's cable television companies and brought to you as a public service by your cable or satel

when he said they would comply with foia requests and assist investigation to the practice of unfairly targeting organizations for their first amendment beliefs, he was lying. when he and his boss told the american people under the public trust that he would reform the i.r.s. and make it more transparent and less hostile, faith organizations and small businesses, he was not telling the truth. the commissioner blatantly lied under oath because he thought he could get away with it just like so many other administration officials. the commissioner pleeved he was above the law and beyond approach. tomorrow we have the chance to prove mr. koskinen's assumptions are wrong. these articles of impeachment represent the negative consequences that the average american would face if he lied under oath. some have called this effort petty, even some who believe more officials more deserving of removal, perhaps they are right. we have someone whose violations of the law cannot be disputed and i would hope in light of the indisputeable evidence could move beyond the division and encourage my fellow me

requirements under foia, requirements under national security. comey is great, comey has a lot of credibility, then they need to own the report. the report said she might have been hacked. >> i will take shoddy, fine. i don't think we learned anything about as secretary of state what she did do and didn't do that shows -- >> this is about the cover-up. >> this is about the cover-up, nothing she did as secretary of state. >> mabe things about this report that are new. she property her blackberry into the secure area on the state department floor. she wasn't supposed to do that. >> decisions she made as secretary of state. not handling e-mail. >> comey or hillary? >> hillary. >> there's lots in this report that's new. i don't think the report should have been released. i think comey shouldn't have a press conference. you make a decision not to indict, you can say that and that's it. i really think it's not unprecedented but unadvisable. >> as unadvisable as president clinton meeting with loretta lynch on a plane in phoenix. >> she brought her black

harass climate scientists who work at public institutions and are vulnerable to state and federal foia requests. e. & e. legal received significant funding from the fossil fuel industry to engage in this harassment. documents made public in the bankruptcy proceedings of three separate coal companies arch coal peabody coal and alpha natural resources reveal payments to e. & e. legal or to its senior fellow chris horner, a gentleman who has written not one but two books on why global warming is a hoax. e. & e. legal is also an associate member of the state policy network which the center for media democracy source watch describes as an $83 million right-wing empire, that in turn it receives money from a koch family foundation and from the identity scrubbing donors trust and donors capital organizations set up to launder the identities of big donors. such is the web of denial. madam president, i could go on. our report contains substantial detail on the network connecting the opponents of the clean power plan to the fossil fuel companies behind their effort. exxonmobil's c.e.o. may preten