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Probably have fewer questions. if there is a source you can provide that 90 to 95% were on the state department system, then i'll know i need to ask the state department who took them so long because i'm just telling you madam secretary, i got eight e-mails the first time i ask and now i got over 1500. there is some disconnect there. >> mr. chairman, i think that is a fair question. and i'm not at the state department any longer but i do want to defend them. they are under the most extraordinary pressure to answer congressional inquiries. i saw a figure recently that foyer requests have jumped...

>> i'm not familiar with all of the foyer requests made while she was the secretary of state. but whether they were on her private e-mail or her public e-mail or official e-mail, michael, it doesn't really matter because she still has the ability as every other official in the executive branch to make the determinations as to what are official e-mail and private e-mail. so the mere virtue of her using a private e-mail server doesn't change the sub stance of what her response would be to a foyer request. >> let me show you something michael mukasey wrote about this matter this week. it's a misd...

Issued in 2009 that permitted mrs. clinton to use private e-mails for official business. so she was certainly complying with the law. even if there are some that believe that officially e-mail would make it easier to comply with the freedom for information requests. the law requiring officials used only official e-mail addresses for official business. it was not passed until 2014. so i think she's perfectly in compliance with the freedom of information requests, although equivocally in that. >> i am sure there are journalists out there who during her tenure made requests for information. and i...

Right question. we've been working at this for about 18 months. citizens united. we had our hillary clinton film, hillary the movie back in 2007, 2008 that ended up going to the supreme court. we're working on our sequel. we've been at all 18 months. these foyer requests which we started back then are now in federal court. we have six federal lawsuits. the only way you're able to get anything out of the clintons is through a federal judge's court order. that's where we are today. this is in the first batch of e-mails that we've gotten out of one of those lawsuits. we're going to be getting a l...

Classified material -- >> [ inaudible ]. >> -- according to hillary clinton. >> they are looking at foyer requests and now that we have to release the e-mails. and if they had reported on a security guidance being requested for how the clinton e-mails were being released as per the state department that would not have been the kind of media story that we all have to talk about. >> answer me this philosophical question. since i'm in a self loathing philosophical mood today. if there was a republican candidate who had a trustworthiness issue and there was the same coverage of this person in the ...