article_snippet: It is the responsibility of individual agencies to establish an email system and to make sure those emails as created are properly recorded and maintained,' Earnest again told reporters during the briefing, standing by Earnest statements from last week.
article_snippet: Earnest also stuck by the White House's stance that there's no 'reason to doubt' that Clintonhas not done 'exactly what her team said her team would do' and give the State Department a copy of all of Clinton work-related emails. '
article_snippet: But ultimately that is the responsibility of Secretary Clinton and Clinton ,' Earnest said.
article_snippet: Responding to a question about a the White House's committee's investigation into the 2012 assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and committee chair
article_snippet: Trey Gowdy's suspicions that Clinton may be withholding pertinent emails
article_snippet: , Earnest challenged the reporter or Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican, to produce evidence of foul play.
article_snippet: And if Trey Gowdy'shas specific questions about specific emails that should be produced in response to a legitimate congressional inquiry, then Trey Gowdy's should raise that directly with the State Department officials, Earnest said.
article_snippet: Asked by the same reporter, Bloomberg's Justin Sink, if the White House's feels the White House's now needs to step in because the State Departmentdoesn't seem to be doing the State Department job,' Earnest said that was 'one step too far.'
article_snippet: the State Department has cooperated at 'great length' with the eight committees have investigated the Benghazi terrorist attack, Trey Gowdy's contended.
article_snippet: Moments later, Trey Gowdy's again went after Trey Gowdy's, saying, Trey Gowdy's 'would hazard a guess that if the White House's were intimately involved in that kind of effort to review email and make determinations about what should be provided to Congress, that Trey Gowdy's'd be complaining about that on national television as well.'
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