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U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch is scheduled to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, where Republican lawmakers will continue their effort to press for details on the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server while she was secretary of state. Lynch had announced last week that she was accepting the recommendation of the FBI director and federal prosecutors and closing the probe involving the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, but the controversy is far from resolved. The hearing Tuesday will mark the first time Lynch has been questioned about the decision, although Republicans on the...

Lynch is testifying before Congress about Hillary Clinton and her involvement in the investigaton

Congressman David Trott came to the conclusion that Loretta Lynch’s testimony was one big waste of time. Trott’s staff counted up the number of times the attorney general said she couldn’t answer a question or refused to give an “appropriate” response, and they had added up at least 74 instances prior to Trott’s questioning, during a hearing today of the House Judiciary Committee. “I knew you weren’t going to answer our questions today and I apologize for wasting so much time here because it’s really not been very productive,” Trott said. “It’s one of two things: Either you’re saying that...