House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz confers with House Select Benghazi Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 7. | AP Photo Chaffetz claims FBI gave Congress conflicting documents on Clinton email probe

House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) says he has a "couple problems" with the documents provided by the FBI from its investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, including several differences between sets of documents in two separate binders.

One issue, Chaffetz explained on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," is the "high level of redactions."


"Hillary Clinton is out there saying there's not very much sensitive information in there, that she didn't trade in sensitive classified information. It's so sensitive and so classified that even I as the chairman of the Oversight Committee don't have the high level of clearance to see what's in those materials," Chaffetz said. "I think the documents are overly classified. We're going to call on the FBI this week to give us a version where there's non-classified, the unclassified material and the classified material redacted so that that could be out there in the public. I think that's the right thing to do."

Chaffetz then said he discovered Sunday night that the FBI, when asked to provide a second copy of the documents in a classified setting, gave documents that are "different."

"So we have a second set of documents that's now different," Chaffetz said. "When you turn them page by page, they're different. I don't know why that happened."

Asked to account for the difference, Chaffetz said there is "new information."

"A lot of this that they claim is classified is just flat-out embarrassing. There's nothing classified about it, it's just embarrassing. It's a lot of immature name-calling, stuff like that," Chaffetz said, while adding that he was not accusing the FBI of protecting Clinton.

As far as what his theory is, Chaffetz responded, "Well here's the full set of documents and then they give a copy by definition that would be the same, they're not. You start turning the page and suddenly there's new documents, new information in there and, so, we're going back to square one. We've only had them for days and, still, the second copy is different than the first copy. Why is that?"

Chaffetz said he was not sure how to account for the discrepancy.

"I don't know. But it's more information. The stuff that we saw in the short time before on the train to come up here to be on the show was that it was just flat-out embarrassing," Chaffetz said from the show's New York City studio. "There was nothing classified about it. Name-calling, things like that."