James Comey: Huma Abedin Gave Thousands of Classified Emails to Anthony Weiner — Transcript

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1. 0:00I could see two doors and they were both
2. 0:02actions one was labeled speak the other
3. 0:04was labeled conceal because here's how I
4. 0:06thought about I'm not trying to talk you
5. 0:08into this but I want you to know my
6. 0:09thinking having repeatedly told this
7. 0:12Congress we are done and there's nothing
8. 0:14there there's no case there there's no
9. 0:15case there to restart in a hugely
10. 0:19significant way potentially finding the
11. 0:21emails that would reflect on her intent
12. 0:23from the beginning and not speak about
13. 0:25it would require an act of concealment
14. 0:27in my view and so I stared at speak in
15. 0:30conceal speak would be really bad
16. 0:32there's an election in 11 days lordy
17. 0:34that would be really bad concealing in
18. 0:36my view would be catastrophic not just
19. 0:39to the FBI but well beyond and honestly
20. 0:42as between really bad and catastrophic I
21. 0:45said to my team were got to walk into
22. 0:47the world of really bad I've got to tell
23. 0:48Congress that we're restarting this not
24. 0:51in some frivolous way in a hugely
25. 0:53significant way and the team also told
26. 0:55me we cannot finish this work before the
27. 0:57election and then they worked night
28. 0:59after night after night and they found
29. 1:01thousands of new emails they found
30. 1:03classified information on Anthony Weiner
31. 1:06somehow her emails are being forwarded
32. 1:08to Anthony Weiner including classified
33. 1:10information by her assistant Huma Abedin
34. 1:13and so they found thousands of new
35. 1:15emails and then called me the Saturday
36. 1:17night before the election and said
37. 1:18thanks to the wizardry of our technology
38. 1:21we've only had to personally read 6,000
39. 1:24we think we can finish tomorrow morning
40. 1:26Sunday and so I met with them and they
41. 1:28said we found a lot of new stuff we did
42. 1:31not find anything that changes our view
43. 1:33of her intent so we're in the same place
44. 1:36we were in July it hasn't changed our
45. 1:38view and I asked them lots of questions
46. 1:40and I said okay if that's where you are
47. 1:41then I also have to tell Congress that
48. 1:43we're done