State came forward with a startling allegation. That allegation was that former secretary of state Hillary Clintons aides ordered the destruction of documents to prevent congress and the arb from ever seeing them. Chairman dowdy called these allegations that the committee would be investigating this. What he failed to admit was that at the time of the chairmans fox news interview republicans had already investigated the maxwell claim and only found evidence against it. But when democratic staff spoke to that witness he said he didnt recall having been in the document review session that mr. Maxwell described. He also denied ever being instructed to flag information and documents that might be unfavorable to the department. He further reported that he never edge gauged in or was ever aware of any destruction of documents. That witness was perfectly willing to talk to democrats and has always been willing to talk to us. He also never asked to be treated as a confidential source. Hes neve
Would like them to be prioritized, its january 27th today. There is no date yet scheduled for an interview of any of these people. Were not going to wait to receive now all of these documents, which would have been the more efficient way for a real investigation to be done. So wed like to know what date, and because we want to preserve the safety and security of these personnel, wed like to know, i would say within the next 24 hours, which witnesses will be made available next week, and which witnesses will be made available the following week . And which witnesses will be made available the following week and so on . And we all have a certain number of staff, but our staff will go to these witnesses, or we will work with you to make arrangements to get these staff back to washington, d. C. , to conduct these interviews. Are you in agreement that that can be done . To provide a bit of context and we will be working with the Justice Department on all of this as well to ensure their safe
Certain information. Yes. But when it comes to priorities, he sets those priorities, not you. Were responsive to the committees priorities. And tell me, when tell me the priority list right now. What is that list . Number one. It is, number one is the production of documents that were requested regarding former officials, and the top of the list was for former secretary clinton. Number two are the interviews of the four Diplomatic Security agents we referenced. Thats not to say that the other requests are forgotten. Thats not it at all. What it is is to say those are the issues those are the items that we have worked most diligently on and we will be. We have good story that we are producing within several days we will begin producing to the committee those beginning of those documents that were requested. Its only been six weeks, roughly, since the initial request. And then a few about a month of the finalization of that. And in between that, weve prepared for hearings that didnt come
What needs to be lifted and what doesnt . I believe the process is that weve gone to all the agencies who are relevant to these documents and asked for a review. But mr. Higgins said they lifted some of the redactions. Yes, and we as well in an agreement with the committee several months ago also agreed with the committees desire to have minimal redactions. And so we went back over these 40,000 documents and minimized the redactions. You know, there was an outside group prior to this committee being formed that had a freedom of information act and got some information. I believe it was from the state department, with no redactions. And as a member of the intel committee, we had gotten the same information redacted. Now, would it be easier for this committee or to have better information if we go through the freedom of information act rather than requesting it from yall . Well, my understanding is that we receive 18,000 foya we received 18,000 foya requests last calendar year. They got
A bit of a chill, but a very pleasant warmup is under way for this afternoon and the warming trend will continue into the early parts of the coming week. For now its a mostly clear sky and seasonally chilly out there. 30s and 40s on most of the map. 36 in lease berg, manassas and culpepper. 46 downtown. Going out and strapping on your running shoes, temperatures in the upper 40s and low 50s before we reach the noon hour. Plenty of sunshine coming late they are afternoon. Event highs today, all the way to 60 today and milder weather before a big cooldown arrives late week. Start soaking in the warmth now, guys. Well be back with the seven day in a bit. New this morning, the americans held prisoner in north korea are now home. They were freed after a Top Secret Mission. Nbcs Dan Shinneman tells us how kenneth bae and Matthew Todd Miller made it back on u. S. Soil. Reporter theyre back on u. S. Soil, the last known american prisoners in north korea released after a high stakes, highly sec