was going from the classified system into a nonclassified system. so it is ironic you don't want to appear before this committee out of concern for protecting classified information, when hillary clinton walked around with a blackberry full of classified information and gave access to sensitive federal records to folks without security clearances at all. i want to understand from each of you what it is you think that congress should not see. see, i believe passionately in the role of congress. i believe oversight government reform committee. we were founded in 1814. every expenditure, everything we do in this congress, or everything we do in this nation is supposed to be overseen by us. we can investigate anything at any time. that's what is different about the united states of america. we're different, because we are self-critical. we do go look under the hood. we do hold people accountable. that's when abraham lincoln was on this committee and peppered the president because he didn't believe the mexican-american war started as the president said i

was going from the classified system into a nonclassified system. so it is ironic you don't want to pair bhf this committee out of concern for protecting classified information, when hillary clinton walked around with a blackberry full of classified information and gave access to sensitive federal records to folks without security clearances at all. i want to understand from each of you what it is you think that congress should not see. see, i believe passionately in the role of congress. i believe oversight government reform committee. we were founded in 1814. every expenditure, everything we do in this congress, or everything we do in this nation is supposed to be overseen by us. we can investigate anything at any time. that's what is different about the united states of america. we're different, because we are self-critical. we do go look under the hood. we do hold people accountable. that's when abraham lincoln was on this committee and peppered the president because he didn't believe the mexican-american war started as he said it was. we can't

from nonclassified, could reveal it, it would be earth shattering. napolitano: he demanded of the fbi they celebrate -- separate classified from nonclassified, haven't gotten an answer from them yet. of the one that is an opportunity to break the whole thing open. judge napolitano: we also have an opportunity from the house side, congressman chafe it's caused the fbi agent who was testified to deliver the whole file to the house. up to them what they want to do. the fbi is telling congress what it can read and not read and denying the opportunity to read nonclassified material but according to senator grassley, the chair of the judiciary has not happened before. stuart: i get the impression you and i talked about this, i always said we get nowhere with this. they will never find out what happened after what you said, to change my mind. if senator grassley can present to everybody else what those emails contain, the whole thing is broken over. stuart: a gentleman testifying near the house committee was the most informative we have heard. he was an emp

reads the classified, reads the nonclassified.in public -- >> they won't let him. >> they won't let him. he says if i could reveal what i saw, it's earth shattering, but they won't let me reveal it. how can the fbi commingle classified and nonclassified. >> was it by mistake? >> i don't know if it was by mistake. senator grassley said it was not by mistake, and they violated the law. you have the fbi preventing the legislative branch from doing its job. >> will the fbi be obligated to cough up the unredacted stuff? >> unless a judge interviews. then you have the fbi giving grassley and chafs everything or going to a federal judge. >> that means it's not going to happen until after the election. it's going to take a long time. >> there are judges sitting in an emergent capacity for applications like this. i wouldn't be surprised if it's resolved by the end of this week. >> cha ves said the same thing. there were two copies of the document. he had to go reread them all because the fbi gave him two different versions of the same thin

why have -- why have we, as members of congress, not been provided access to the nonclassified, nonsensitive information that is in the skiff? >> ma'am, i think you've -- i think you've been given access, or certain members of the oversight committee, and staff, have been given all information in the skiff, ma'am. >> mr. chairman, i would like to yield the balance of my time to you. >> thank you. mr. herring, the problem that we have is that the redactions you have given us doesn't allow us to look at full and complete file. that's part of the challenge. let's start with mr. sole there, the nsa, do you have an understanding of the total universe of the compromised classified material that was found in the universe -- >> absolutely not. >> explain that to me. hillary clinton took four years of communication outside of a secure communication. do you or do you not have an understanding of the universe of that breech? >> if you mean the importance of it, i certainly understand the importance of it but i don't have personal knowledge of everything that is said to have been released. >> does the n

her running mate defending clinton yesterday saying discerning to be classified and nonclassified isticularly difficult. >> unless pulled and identified it is difficult to know whether a stateman is classified. that's what she was saying. >> like the fact that she used 13 separate mobile devices but the fbi was unable to recover any of them partly because an aide was instructed to return with a hammer. after news of private e-mail server became private, the clinton camp ordered to delete archive emails and was mysteriously lost. donald trump's campaign is jumping all over this. trump tweeting lying hillary clinton told hillary clinton did not know documents were classified. how can this be happening? mike pence spoke on this. >> dishonest president since richard nixon. out of the public reach, publish accountability. >> of course, that one donald trump's running mate mike pence. clinton signed two nondisclosure agreements as secretary of state where she said she knew the rules and violating the agreements could result in criminal charges, laura. >> thanks so much for that. >> polls t

why have -- why have we, as members of congress, not been provided access to the nonclassified, nonsensitive information that is in the skiff? >> ma'am, i think you've -- i think you've been given access, or certain members of the oversight committee, and staff, have been given all information in the skiff, ma'am. >> mr. chairman, i would like to yield the balance of my time to you. >> thank you. mr. herring, the problem that we have is that the redactions you have given us doesn't allow us to look at full and complete file. that's part of the challenge. let's start with mr. sole there, the nsa, do you have an understanding of the total universe of the compromised classified material that was found in the universe -- >> absolutely not. >> explain that to me. hillary clinton took four years of communication outside of a secure communication. do you or do you not have an understanding of the universe of that breech? >> if you mean the importance of it, i certainly understand the importance of it but i don't have personal knowledge of everything that is said to have been released. >> does the n

general, the inspector general had highlighted that there was classified information residing in a nonclassified situation with people who did not have the proper security clearance. inspector general found this. they did what they were supposed to do. they contacted the fbi. the fbi swoops in and they find thousands and thousands of additional e-mails, many of which were classified. most were not. most were unclassified. but they nevertheless found federal records, not just her e-mail, federal records and it's important to note that the severity of this. because the classification ranges everything from confidential to secret, top secret. you even have special access programs. required a code word access. this information was found on there. i'm sure there will be discussion about how few they were. but there is a reason in this nation why we go to such great lengths to classify this information and make sure that the adversaries do not have access to it. to address this nightmare, the state department had allocated roughly in $200812.6 million to fulfill the foia requests. that has now soared

secretary of treasury to submit a report to congress and make that report available online in its nonclassified parts. obviously the classified parts would be restricted to members of congress, but a report that estimates the total assets under direct or indirect control of senior iranian leaders, including those with ties to the iranian revolutionary guard corps. mr. speaker, as you know, it is well documented that many of iran's political and military leaders have amassed substantial personal wealth on the backs of the citizens of iran. it gives them control over all sorts of sectors in the iranian economy. in fact, the nonpartisan congressional research service estimates that 1/3 of the iranian economy, 1/3 of the iranian economy, mr. speaker, that includes telecommunications, it includes construction, it includes airports, it includes seaports, 1/3 of the economy is controlled by leaders in the government personally, these political and military elites, through what they'll call personal foundations. mr. speaker, the joint comprehensive plan of action, that's what most of america knows as t

thise's saying he only used a personal e-mail account for nonclassified e-mail.used a classified system at state department. different from what hillary clinton was doing with her private server. he went on it complain about how now out in the private sector, he lost a gig, apparently a speak engagement with a major university because in his words in this e-mail, colin powell alledges hillary clinton had koujed this university of so much money that they got in trouble and could no longer go forward with a pricey speech for colin powell. he also says at one point, quote, hrc could have killed this two years ago by merely telling everyone honestly what she had done. i warned her staff three times over the past two years not to try to connect it to me. an important point for balance here is that colin powell and these e-mails that were hacked also goes after donald trump. at one point calls him a national disgrace, a, quoted, international pariah, says that what he was doing to help spark the bifrter movement was racist. again, these are the words of colin powell. i