Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the chair of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said Tuesday he doesn't think the FBI should be talking about its investigation of Hillary Clinton's email server until the case is closed. "I don't want an update on the status of the email investigation. I am not entitled to an update on the status of the email investigation," Gowdy, who once worked at the Justice Department, said during an interview on CNN's New Day. "They should not be discussing the facts of an investigation until the investigation is over."
But while Gowdy doesn't want updates, he said he does agree with FBI Director James Comey's initial decision to inform Congress that more emails were discovered that could be pertinent to the previous investigation of Clinton's private email server. "I don't view his letter as an update on the facts of the investigation. I view it as a notice document," Gowdy said.
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