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I never received nor sent any material that was marked classified, and there is a procession for the review of material before it is released to the public, and there were decisions made that material should be classified. I do call that retro actively classified. That meeting comes a day after attorney general Loretta Lynch pledged to accept whatever course of action is recommended by the bureau. Lynch has come to intensifying pressure over a 30minute talk with former president bill clinton at the Phoenix Airport on monday. Thats where criticism from both parties for creating an apparent conflict of interest. Joining me now here in washington, congressman Xavier Becerra and possible vp pick. Welcome back to fox news sunday. Great to be with you. Mrs. Clintons meeting with the fbi comes just after a few days earlier a meeting between former president bill clinton, the attorney general Loretta Lynch. Heres what she said about the appearances from that meeting. The issue is how does it impact the work that i do and the work of the department of justice does. And i certainly wouldnt do it again. And you know because i think it has cast a shadow over what it should not. Over what it will not touch. The fbi is conducting multiple probes involving the clintons. You and i are both lawyers. This could go beyond pr. Is this an ethical issue potentially . The fact that the attorney general whose integrity is not even in question has said that shes going to rely on the recommendations of the fbi investigators, and the career prosecutors at justice is a clear sign that it wont be an issue here. Because, those who are doing the investigation, those who know the facts, are going to make the final call. But do you think that the fact that the reporter who broke this story locally there in arizona said that mr. Clinton got word that her plane was coming in, he delayed, he was running late, he stopped and waited for her to come onto the tarmac, then privately met with her for 30 minutes. You understand how that raises questions. I think the attorney general recognizes how that raises questions and she said she wouldnt do it again. And, that quickly followed what followed by her statement where she said, lets be clear, the investigators at the fbi, the career prosecutors at justice, are the ones that are going to make a recommendation and im going to accept that recommendation. So this way that chance encounter doesnt seem to influence whats going on with this invest indication. Yeah, lets play a little bit of what she said. She was speaking in aspen on friday. Here are some of her remarks. The recommendations will be reviewed by career supervisors in the department of justice, and in the fbi. And by the fbi director. And then as is the common process, they present it to me, and i fully expect to accept their recommendations. Later that day, a senior doj official told us that she is reserving the right to make an ultimate decision about this. It was confusing to us. Weve been back and forth with them several times. With all this confusion, with all the potential cloud of conflict of interest, why not just let a special prosecutor, why not get an independent person looking at this . Because if youre going to let those who are doing the investigation, the fbi, and those who understand the law, and can take the facts of the investigation to make a good decision and recommendation, why stop that process . This has been going on for awhile. The secretary herself was prepared and volunteered to provide testimony to the fbi. She just did that this week. And so, this has gone a long way. And just because there was a chance encounter with president bill clinton, who has no part in this investigation, doesnt mean that you have to throw the investigation away. I think the attorney general did the right thing, though. She recognized that people were beginning to question how it is that she met with the spouse of the secretary whos the subject of the investigation, and she said lets make it very clear, at the end of the day im accepting the recommendation of those who are doing the investigation at the fbi. The professionals. And those who are career prosecutors at justice. Okay, but its not just about her. Because we know that the fbi is looking into potential conflicts involving the clinton foundation. I mean thats something that the president would be directly involved with. He could be a witness. He could be somebody who was under investigation. And to the degree that theres any sense of the conversation that the president , bill clinton, had with the attorney general, i think shes made it very clear, if you dont believe what im telling you that it was just a chance encounter, it was a social conversation, then let me make it clear. The folks who are doing the investigation, the professionals at the fbi, the prosecutors who understand the law and how these facts work to relate to the law, theyre the ones that are going to make that recommendation and im prepared to sip the recommendation. Lets talk about what we do know. We know that there are more than 2,000 emails in question that do contain some classified information. 22 of them so top secret they wont release any of them to us, not a single portion. Inspectors general from both the Intelligence Community and state department have criticized mrs. Clinton for directly violating the federal records act, she failed to comply with department policy. Also in january of 2011 there was a technical adviser to the clintons email system who said he had to shut it down twice because he thought it was being hacked. The romanian hacker said he did hack the system multiple times and it wasnt that hard. Mrs. Clinton is asking the American People to trust her, that she can lead us, and it looks as if shes put together a situation with her email that was very complicated. It could have exposed classified information. So why should we trust here . So lets break that down, shannon. First, there were no classified emails released by the secretary. The fact that they those investigators may have gone back and after time, months, years, gone back and said oh, maybe we should classify some of these emails is nothing that she was aware of, so she never did herself disclose any through her emails any classified information. But 22 of them so classified that we cant even see a single word of them. As i said at the time that she was having those email conversations, none of those emails were classified. Something may have happened in between. Lets say in the last two intervening years, somebody we didnt know too much about has become a real terror suspect. Now you may want to classify any email that dealt with that particular individual. But two or three years ago there was no sense that that was it was necessary to classify that as top secret. And so, the secretary herself has said, look, ive done what other secretaries of state have done, what others in the administration and in government have done,communicated through email. Subsequently, classification comes out at top secret for some of those communications. But not at the time. And then you go to the issue of whether folks can trust. I think the secretary made it very clear, she understands that shes got to earn peoples trust. Shes going to work very, very hard to do that and i give her credit for saying that shes made some mistakes and shes going to try to show the American People that shes going to work hard especially for working families in america to earn their trust. Okay. You know that there are also private lawsuits regarding some of these emails, and they are the state department is turning them over under court order and according to some of these not only mrs. Clinton but some of her key staffers, they had a deadline in july for the next batch. They went to court this week the state department did through the Justice Department and said we need to delay until october 20th, 2018. So how do you answer critics who say that sounds like the mother of all stall tactics. Well lets get put everything in perspective. People from the outside are making requests for information, which, as we just learned, sometimes its classified or reclassified as top secret. And so therefore i think that each agency is saying wait a minute we have to be very careful what we disclose to you. Even though right now it doesnt have a classification as being top secret what were finding is that subsequently it might. So i think theyre being very cautious. They want to make sure that they give out this information for the right reasons and there are a whole bunch of folks trying to sue to get information. What we have to make sure is that we dont delete information that should be kept classified, because it may ultimately divulge information that could harm the u. S. And so, i dont know the inner workings of the agency but i certainly would want to make sure that were not releasing to some private entity information that really doesnt deserve to be out in the public. And of course all of the email information, the server, the private server, came to light because of the benghazi investigation. This week we got the report from the Benghazi Committee, out of the house. We did learn some new things we didnt know before. There is a story about an account of military assets that were waiting in plane, they were on a plane for three hours there, they were told four times to change in and out of their uniforms because the state department was worried about the optics of having americans in uniform on the streets of libya. In the meantime no military assets were ever sent directly to benghazi while the attack was unfolding. Four americans died in the process. Whos to blame . Actually, shannon, thats not new information. That was disclosed back in 2013. It was about the uniform changes . Yes. Thats not something ive heard before this week. That was out there four times. 2013. We knew that information. The military testified to that. And talked about the fact that while there was some sense of disagreement about how to make sure you send out the assets, those assets were going to be sent to tripoli. Not to benghazi. Right. And the military subsequently made clear that even if they had been sent out, they wouldnt have made it in time, because they were being directed to tripoli not to benghazi. And so, the conclusions of the report that first discovered that particular fact were that there was no way that our military assets could have made it in time. And so the conclusions can of our military were that there was no way to change what happened on the ground because it happened so quickly, was confusing information and there werent enough assets close enough to make a difference. What do you say to those within the military or the Intelligence Community who take not committee, community, who take umbrage with that. They say thats not the fact. That they were sent to staging locations in spain and other places and they waited for hours. Yeah, weve had nine investigations now of this. And not a one, including this last one which was a partisan investigation, found that what the military told us was not true. I think its unfair to blame our military, our troops, and our officers, who did the best they could to say now that we could have done more. I think its really unfair and doesnt recognize what our military has to confront. There are any number of theaters of action. And they have to be ready to go wherever necessary. But we dont have so many troops that we can be everywhere at one time. And i think its unfair to those men and women in uniform who work very hard, sometimes give their lives, to say that its their fault they didnt get there on time. Believe me from nine investigations we know that our men and women in uniform tried. Yes. And apparently some of them are saying that they werent allowed to proceed because of the state department, thats who they were waiting on. Okay, thats asked and answered, as well. Two, three years ago all that information came forward. It was clear that state department did not get in the way of the military. As general hand said at the time, there is no way that our men, our troops, our assets, could have gotten to benghazi on time. And so, again, as i said, we could try to continue to make conspiracy theories out of all of this. But the reality is, what we know after nine investigations, that our assets on the ground were not sufficient and close enough given the short time frame, and the confusion that existed at that time in benghazi. All right. Lets talk about after the fact which obviously is a big part of what the Benghazi Committee investigated, as well. Publicly the administration was saying that the youtube that was offensive to the muslim faith was to blame. We know there was a different story going on privately. I want to read what mrs. Clinton said to the egyptian Prime Minister. Quote, we know the attack in libya had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack, not a protest. Two daes later she was speaking as the bodies of the four americans were brought back here to the u. S. She mentioned the video. The family said it was about the video. We know ambassador susan rice spoke there was email traffic and guidance that said make sure this isnt about a broader failure of policy in libya. So was the story crafted in order to deceive americans and preserve mrs. Clintons legacy . Again, shannon, nothing new here. Nine investigations, including this last one which is very partisan, cost us, 7 million, took two years. By the way this last partisan investigation took longer than the watergate investigation. It took longer than the 9 11 investigation. It took longer than the kennedy assassination investigation to complete. Republicans say its because they were stonewalled by the administration, the pentagon, the cia i would say after eight investigations there wasnt that much more to uncover and i think the those partisans were part of that investigation hunted as deep as they could to find something because they were finding nothing after eight other investigations. But to the point, again, that was those claims were investigated about the picture that was set forth by the administration at the time of the events unfolding in benghazi. And what were finding is that the intelligence, the military intelligence we were receiving at the time was telling us, it this attack could have been inspired, these activities could have been inspired by that video. Subsequently, we learned differently. But at the time, and because of all the confusion, what was being said on the ground by our assets on the ground, not by state department, not by the white house, was it looks like these attacks may have been inspired by this video. Weve learned since more of what transpired. But again to blame our military for providing this information as best they could given the facts on the ground, i think its just unfair to the men and women in uniform to do that to them. What do we do with these phone call, to the egyptian Prime Minister within 24 hours . Again, were learning facts as we go. What youre finding is that were trying to give our allies as much information as we can. But we want to make sure that what we say to the public is based on the information we know on the ground. It could change and often does. But you want to make sure that youre giving the public as best a read as possible given that youre not yet sure of what exactly went down as well. Its a tough situation. You or i probably would be hardpressed to make better decisions than our men and women in uniform that were there on the ground. But again, its monday morning quarterbacking to say we could have done better than the men and women who are serving in the uniform. Are you being vetted for vp . Do you want to be . Thats a question that has to be asked of secretary clinton. And i have full faith that total confidence that shes going to make a great decision. Shes got great core of people to choose from. And wile see. And well see. Keep us updated. I will. Thank you for you time. Thank you. Up next our sunday group will discuss Hillary Clintons meeting with frib officials. Plus what would you like to ask the panel about that criticism over bill clintons private meeting with the attorney general . Just go to facebook or twitter foxnewssunday. I dont think it sends the right signal. I think she should have steered clear even of a brief, casual social meeting with the former president. You know when i first heard the story i said no, no, youre kidding. I dont believe it. I thought somebody was joking. Senator chris comes a democrat from delaware, and donald trump criticizing bill clintons meeting with attorney general Loretta Lynch just days after Hillary Clinton spoke with the fbi. Time now for our sunday group. Fox news senior political analyst brit hume. Heidi przybyla from usa today, and former Governor Scott brown. The rnc said that the fbi wanted her for questioning reinforces her central role in deliberately creating a culture which put her own political ambitions above political rules. We should ask ourselves whether this is the kind of leadership we want in the white house. But will it move the polls at all for or against her . I doubt that that statement will. And im not sure the meeting with the fbi will. But it does confirm that something serious is going on here and this is not as she keeps repeating some kind of security review. The fbi director himself said not long ago they dont do security reviews, they do criminal investigations, and that unmistakably is what this is. But the ultimate question is whether anything will come of it and formal charges against her, and if that were to happen, that would be that would be that would be a big deal. It would be a game changer. Would throw the president ial contest into a hat and who knows what would become