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Speaker 1: I'm Charlie Pellett. That's a Bloomberg Business flash. You're listening

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Speaker 1: How Speaker Paul Ryan has sent a letter to the

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Speaker 1: Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, requesting that he denied

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Speaker 1: any classified information to Hillary Clinton for the rest of

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Speaker 1: the twenties sixteen campaign. Let's find out more about Hillary Clinton,

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Speaker 1: the email scandal and James Comey, the director of the FBI,

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Speaker 1: testifying before Congress today. I want to bring it in

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Speaker 1: the thesis national security reporter for Bloomberg News. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining us and the FISAI tell us a little bit

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Speaker 1: sort of reputation of the FBI and the Justice Department. Hi.

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Speaker 1: Thanks yeah. Today, UH, Director James Komey was under an

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Speaker 1: Republican chairman of this committee, Jason Chavitz, said that he

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Speaker 1: So again, they asked him, um, you know, was there

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