Congress Closer to Getting Clinton’s FBI Interview Notes

As early as today, the FBI is expected to provide Congress with notes from Hillary Clinton’s July interview with its agents regarding her private email server.

Republican lawmakers have been pushing for the FBI to release information relating to the former secretary of state’s three-and-a-half-hour interview since last month. Here’s what you need to know as the FBI prepares to surrender the documents to Congress.

The calls for the FBI to release Clinton’s interview notes started after FBI Director James Comey testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in July.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, sent a letter to Comey asking for “interview transcripts, notes, 302 reports,” which are interview summaries, and other documents related to the investigation into Clinton’s use of the private email server during her State Department tenure.

Rep. Tom Marino, R-Pa., and 34 other Republican lawmakers Monday asked Comey to provide any transcripts, notes or recordings of Clinton’s interview with the FBI.

Republicans are also calling on the Justice Department to conduct an investigation into whether Clinton committed perjury during her October testimony before House Select Committee on Benghazi.

“The evidence collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) during its investigation of Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal email system during her time as Secretary of State appears to directly contradict several aspects of her sworn testimony,” Chaffetz and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., wrote in a letter Monday.

The documents handed over by the FBI will likely only contain notes or summaries of the interview.

As is common practice with FBI interviews of witnesses and investigative targets alike, a full transcript of the Democratic presidential nominee’s FBI interview does not exist and the FBI did not record the interview, Comey explained in his testimony in July. He also said Clinton was not under oath when she partook in the interview, though it would still be a crime to deliberately and knowingly mislead law enforcement.

Potentially, and that’s one concern the State Department has.

The agency wants to review any documents relating to the interview before they are provided to Congress, State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said.

“The State Department respects the FBI's desire to accommodate the request of its committees of oversight in Congress just as we do with our oversight committees,” Trudeau said Monday. “The State Department has asked the FBI that we be kept apprised of information provided to Congress that contains sensitive information related to State Department equities and for an opportunity to review it.”

ABC News' Ely Brown and Mike Levine contributed to this report

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