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Outgoing South Carolina Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy took a look back at his most memorable grillings of politicians and bureaucrats on "The Story."
In an October 22, 2015 clip, Gowdy can be seen gruffly questioning Hillary Clinton on the aftermath of the 2012 Benghazi attack.
He pressed her on her contact with confidant Sid Blumenthal, who Gowdy told her the Obama administration rejected for an unspecified role.
.@TGowdySC: "I can just tell you, having done it for a living, Bob Mueller is every bit as interested in figuring out how we missed the signs that Russia was trying to interfere with our election. Prosecutors are just wired differently from politicians." #TheStory pic.twitter.com/WMQBHEXC6K
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 7, 2018
In July 2016, he engaged in rapid-fire questioning of then-FBI Director James Comey.
At the time, he pressed Comey on whether any emails sent through Clinton's private server were marked classified, or whether she returned all of her work-related emails upon leaving the State Department.
Gowdy also replayed his "grilling" of former IRS employee Lois Lerner, who was suspected of targeting conservative groups.
.@TGowdySC on Mueller probe: "There may or may not be crimes, domestic crimes associated with that, but it's a foreign power trying to interfere with the gears of our democracy. The hack of the DNC server is a crime. The accessing of John Podesta's email is a crime." #TheStory pic.twitter.com/0aJU7YbypC
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 7, 2018
Gowdy said that his wife tells him - and that he agrees - that the person seen in the hearing room is not the former attorney from Spartanburg.
"Who is that?" he asked rhetorically. "I'd rather make you laugh than make you feel uncomfortable."
Gowdy said that he treats Congress like "a job" and that in order to do that job properly, you must sometimes speak in a tough manner when conducting a hearing.
.@TGowdySC: "I never allege a conspiracy when simple incompetence will suffice as an explanation. I don't look for some nefarious motive if incompetence or a lack of protocol will explain it." #TheStory pic.twitter.com/KTuM89nPec
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 7, 2018
"It's not personal," he said. "I never had a cross word with [former Attorney General] Eric Holder outside of a committee room."
Gowdy joked that former IRS Commissioner John Koskinen was so taken with his questioning, that Koskinen told him after the hearing that if Gowdy was in private practice, he would hire him.
.@TGowdySC: "I think the Democrats are politically smart enough to put things in the memo that require either the [@FBI] or @TheJusticeDept to say it needs to be [redacted]. Therefore, it creates this belief that there's something being hidden from the American people." #TheStory pic.twitter.com/3WGoGp7G7J
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 7, 2018
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