Clinton leads Trump by 3 percentage points nationally, according to the NBC News/SurveyMonkey online weekly tracking poll released Tuesday.
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“While I understand that this investigation has generated significant public interest, as attorney general, it would be inappropriate for me to comment further on the underlying facts of the investigation or the legal basis for the team’s recommendation”, she told members of the House Judiciary Committee.
“On Monday, two House Republican committee chairmen formally requested that the Justice Department investigate whether Hillary Clinton lied to Congress”.
“The evidence collected by the FBI during its investigation of Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal email system appears to directly contradict several aspects of her sworn testimony”, said Chaffetz and Goodlatte in their letter.
Accepting the endorsement of her primary rival in Portsmouth, New Hampshire Tuesday, Clinton said she was happy to be working with someone who has energized the primary process.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch defended her decision to close the Hillary Clinton email investigation without criminal charges, insisting Tuesday that she had no reason to reject the unanimous recommendation of FBI investigators.
“Frankly, the FBI’s conclusion leaves many more questions than answers”.
She closed the case last week. “No conversation in that nature at all”, she said. The ranking Democrat on the committee, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., berated Republicans for continuing to harp on Clinton’s emails. “If Donald Trump consolidates Republicans or peels off a few more independent voters to form a new coalition, then Hillary Clinton is going to lose”, said PPD’s senior political analyst Richard Baris. She declined to recuse herself.
Lynch touched on law enforcement and policing issues including last week’s sniper shooting of five police officers in Dallas by a suspect who said he wanted to kill white officers.
While Comey did not recommend charges, he sharply criticized Clinton’s handling of classified information on the private server which she used while serving as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.
Lynch said she’s focused on serving out her current term, and Ratcliffe said, “You won’t rule it out”.
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Republican lawmakers have been sharply critical of the department’s decision not to pursue Clinton, the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for the presidency.
