Ratcliffe Exchange with Lynch on her Review of FBI Reccomendation

That after a year long investigation involving 150 FBI agents working around the clock involving more than 30,000 emails, tens of thousands of man hours, that your thoughtful, careful weighing and strength of the evidence took you an afternoon cup of coffee with the FBI director. That your decision in this case for charges relating to a person who according to the FBI director said was extremely careless handling America's most sensitive national security matters and is seeking to be a candidate in charge of America's most sensitive national security matters took the better part of an afternoon. It didn't last weeks, didn't last months, didn't take days. You weighed that evidence, determined her intent and gross negligence in a matter of hours. Will you at least tell the American people whether or not you at least reviewed the 110 top secret, secret and classified emails that we know that she sent and received on an unsecure, unauthorized server? Will you at least answer that? As I've indicated... Time of the gentleman has expired. The witness is permitted to answer the question. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As I've indicated, I received a recommendation after a briefing from the team, which included the career lawyers as well as the FBI director. I received a full and thorough briefing. We reviewed and discussed the matter and I accepted their recommendation.