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202 something about -- and I don't know whether it was Combetta or not -- but somebody having failed to do what they asked him to do and panicking and going back and deleting emails on one of the old servers maybe.

Mr. That is definitely one version of how that conference call went, that he in the past had been told to have a short retention, and he got on the phone with some of Secretary Clinton's attorneys and had -- I won't use the word -- but an oh-something bad moment and realized he had not done it. There are other versions that we don't have access to because privileges were asserted surrounding that conversation. Do you recall anything about that?

Mr. No. I remember privilege issues, but not about that conversation.

Mr. Who made the decision to allow Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson to sit in on Secretary Clinton's interview?

Mr. I think the DOJ did, although I'm trying to remember whether I knew personally. FBI people knew about it and didn't object to it.

Mr. They did or did not?

Mr. Did not, to my recollection.

Mr. We've interviewed some Bureau employees who thought it was a very unusual arrangement that they were not familiar with. How would you describe allowing multiple fact witnesses to be present while a fact witness is being