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FBI Director James Comey Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee

Published May 3, 2017 at 1:12 PM EDT
FBI Director James Comey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 3, 2017, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing: "Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation." (Carolyn Kaster/AP)
FBI Director James Comey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 3, 2017, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing: "Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation." (Carolyn Kaster/AP)

FBI Director James Comey is strongly defending his decision to alert Congress that agents were revisiting the Hillary Clinton email investigation less than two weeks before the November election.

Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that he concluded it would have been “catastrophic” to have concealed that development from Congress.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young gets the latest from NPR’s Brian Naylor ( @brinaylor).

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