Former AttorneyGeneral Loretta Lynch downplayed her characterization of Hillary Clinton's email scandal as a "matter" vs. an "investigation," telling NBC News in an interview that former FBI Director James Comey didn't raise any concerns about it.
In an interview to run in full Monday night on NBC Nightly News, Lester Holt asks Lynch about Comey's testimony that her impartiality had been compromised when she asked him to call it a matter, not an investigation.
"My first response was, 'What is the issue here?'" Lynch tells Holt during a segment that aired Monday on NBC's "Today" show.
"This was a very sensitive investigation, as everyone knew," Lynch said. "The issue when he and I sat down at that time … was whether or not we were ready as a department to confirm an investigation going on, which we typically do not confirm or deny investigations into anything, with rare exceptions."
Comey made the assertion during his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee last June.
"At one point, the attorney general had directed me not to call it an investigation, but instead, to call it a matter, which confused me and concerned me," Comey testified.
Lynch says now that she and Comey had a "full and open meeting about it" and that "concerns were not raised" by Comey.
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