Gingrich: Clinton lies about lying

Newt Gingrich is unsure what would be revealed if the FBI released notes from its interview with Hillary Clinton. But the former House speaker has no doubt that the Democratic presidential nominee is a liar.

“This is a person who has lied repeatedly,” Gingrich said of the former secretary of state Monday during an interview with Fox News. “I mean, she lies about lying and now she lies about having lied about lying.”


Gingrich suggested it’s the “Clinton model” to “drag it out, to lawyer it up, to say whatever you need to to get through the next interview.”

The FBI interviewed Clinton for 3½ hours in July over her use of a private email server during her tenure as head of the State Department before recommending no charges against her to the Justice Department. And the Obama administration is debating whether to accede to congressional demands for the bureau's official report.

“Let’s see what she did say to the FBI,” Gingrich said. “I think she wasn't under oath. I think it's kind of weird with a figure who's this important nationally to do — it's a multihour interview in their home without taking exact notes, the exact transcript, and without having her under oath makes me wonder.”

Gingrich questioned what the advantage was of interviewing her “like that” after a yearlong probe. “I mean, it's one thing to have a casual, general conversation going into the investigation,” he said. “But this stage of the investigation, I would have thought they would have wanted to put her in the position where if she lied it was perjury. And so I'm puzzled by what the FBI's decision was. But it will be interesting to see, I mean, just as somebody who is curious about how the country works — interesting to see what her explanations are for things she did that I think were clearly illegal.”