Matt Cartwright that they were not properly marked and therefore could have been missed by Clinton. In his July 7 testimony, Comey clarified that those three additional emails had “portion markings” indicating that they contained classified information, but he acknowledged under questioning from Rep. He also said, “a very small number of the emails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information.” And so, while we may want to make more of it, the fact is the FBI has said we should move on and get to real important matters of the country."īecerra goes too far when he claims that Comey said Clinton “had no knowledge” that any emails contained classified information, and that “the FBI investigation confirms” that “she never intended to send classified information over emails.”Īs we have written, Comey said at a July 5 press conference that more than 2,000 of the 30,490 emails Clinton turned over to the State Department in December 2014 contained classified information, including 110 emails in 52 email chains that contained classified information at the time they were sent or received. She said there was no classified material."īecerra: "Chris, she has made it clear that looking back at this, she would have done it differently, that she did make some mistakes, but that she never intended to send classified information over emails, and the FBI investigation confirms that. Wallace: "She said - that isn’t what she told the American people. Wallace: "She didn’t say, 'I didn’t intend to send classified material.' " And so I think you’re trying to make more of this than what there is." Otherwise, if there had been the intention to send classified emails, then the FBI would have pursued this much further. Wallace: "They were marked and more importantly, he said that there was classified material that she had emailed."īecerra: "But she did not know it. And so, he did come out and say - you don’t show that, but he did come out and say that she did not know." 7: "Congressman, Comey directly contradicted what Clinton had been telling the American people for a year."īecerra: "But, Chris, what you don’t also show is that Director Comey said that she had no knowledge of some of those so-called classified emails because they were either not marked or they were not classified at the time or they were incorrectly marked. There is no classified material.’ Was that true?” Comey replies, “There was classified material emailed.” Gowdy asked Comey, “Secretary Clinton said, ‘I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. Trey Gowdy questioning Comey during a House Oversight Committee on July 7. The two clashed over whether the FBI director contradicted Clinton’s public statements about sending classified emails on her private server. 7 during an exchange with host Chris Wallace. Xavier Becerra, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, made his remarks on Fox News Sunday on Aug. “I do not believe there’s evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that she knew she was receiving classified information in violation of the requirements, but there is evidence of that,” Comey testified on July 7. That’s not what Comey said.Ĭomey actually said there was evidence that Clinton knew she was receiving classified information, but that he could not prove it “beyond a reasonable doubt” in court. The chairman of the House Democratic Caucus claimed that FBI Director James Comey testified that Hillary Clinton “had no knowledge” of sending and receiving classified emails on her private server as secretary of State.