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EXECUTIVE SESSION COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY JOINT W/ COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM AND OVERSIGHT, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WASHINGTON, D.C. INTERVIEW OF: ANDREW McCABE Thursday, December 21, 2017 Washington, D.C. The interview in the above matter was held in Room 2141, Rayburn House Office Building, commencing at 10:54 a.m.
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Chairman Goodlatte. This is a transcribed interview of Andrew McCabe. Chairman Gowdy and I requested this interview. Joint investigation by the House Committee on the Judiciary and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to conduct oversight into the Department of Justice's investigation of former Secretary Clinton's handling of classified information and related matters. So, Mr. McCabe, would you please state your name and position at the FBI for the record? Mr. McCabe. Yes, sir. My name is Andrew McCabe, and I am the deputy director of the FBI. Voice. The microphone. Mr. McCabe. Sorry. Is that better? Chairman Goodlatte. Yeah, that's good. Mr. McCabe. My name is Andrew McCabe, and I am the deputy director of the FBI. Chairman Goodlatte. I want to thank you for appearing here today, and we appreciate your willingness to testify voluntarily. I'm Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, and I'm joined today by several members of the Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform Committees and by counsel for those committees. And I will now ask everyone else from the committees who is here in the room to introduce themselves as well, starting with members of the committees. Chairman Gowdy. Trey Gowdy. Mr. Buck. Ken Buck.
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Mr. Ratcliffe. John Ratcliffe. Mr. Meadows. Mark Meadows. Ms. Jackson Lee. Sheila Jackson Lee. [Inaudible.] Mr. Cicilline. David Cicilline. Mr. Connolly. Gerry Connolly. Mr. Cummings. Elijah Cummings. [Inaudible.] Chairman Goodlatte. All right. Okay. Now, at this table -- before I ask the other people to introduce themselves -- at this table, we're to have three members of the majority from each committee, three members of the minority from each committee. So if you have more than six, take a seat, you're welcome to stay, take a seat, but only six at a time, and allow the gentleman from Ohio, Mr. Jordan, to have a seat at the table. So I'm still thinking I have more than six Democrats at the table. [Inaudible.] Chairman Goodlatte. No. The issue is that -- you're welcome to stay, but you sit in the audience because that's -- that's what the rules are for this. Mr. Cicilline. What rules? Chairman Goodlatte. The rules that the chairman of the two committees have established, that there will be six members at the table.