Tim Kaine: FBI should publicly release what they share with Congress on Clinton emails

Sen. Tim Kaine, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, said the FBI should publicly release whatever it shares with Congress on its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email set-up.

“Anything that the FBI gives to Congress, they should give to the public,” Mr. Kaine said in an interview that aired Wednesday on NBC’s “Today” program.

“Because what we’ve seen is this lengthy, multimillion dollar congressional investigation that has been highly partisan where they’ve wanted to leak out this or that to try to make their case against Hillary Clinton. Let the public see what the FBI decides to let Congress see,” he said.

The FBI is turning over to Congress interview notes and files from its investigation into whether Mrs. Clinton mishandled classified information through her private email set-up.

Jason V. Herring, the FBI’s acting assistant director of the office of congressional affairs, wrote in a letter to Congress Tuesday that the FBI concluded that the facts in the case did not support a recommendation to prosecute Mrs. Clinton for gross negligence, saying emails Mrs. Clinton received with a “(C)” marking indicating classified material is not “clear evidence of knowledge or intent.”

FBI Director James B. Comey testified last month that Mrs. Clinton, a former secretary of state, U.S. senator and first lady, might not have been sophisticated enough to understand the markings.

Mrs. Clinton initially said there was no classified material in her emails, and later changed that statement to say she didn’t send or receive material that was marked classified at the time.

Mr. Comey said last month there were three emails that did contain the “(C)” marking indicating the information was classified at the time it was sent or received.

“If you ask somebody a question 150 times or 200 times, you’re going to be able to find that they don’t use exactly the same [word] every time, and there’s going to be variations and then people are going to play on those,” Mr. Kaine said.

“Here’s what I’ve heard her say: I’ve heard her say I made a mistake and I’ve learned something from it, and I wouldn’t do it again and I apologize,” he said.