Various server backups were deleted over time, so the FBI didn't examine that. After the State Department and my colleague Mr. Gowdy here notified Ms. Clinton that her records would be sought by the Benghazi Committee, Copies of her emails on the laptops of both of her lawyers, Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson, were wiped clean with bleach bits. So the FBI didn't review that after those emails were subpoenaed. Hillary Clinton's email archived was also permanently deleted from the Platte river network with bleach bit. (06:48–07:01)
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Asserts that email copies on lawyers' laptops were wiped clean.
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