article_snippet: The chairman of a White House committee investigating the 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya, said Tuesday that he wants to interview Clinton by May 1.
article_snippet: That timeframe would put the next round of what' been called 'email-gate' in the middle of Clinton's likely timetable for announcing a presidential campaign.
article_snippet: South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, the Benghazi committee's chairman, said in a letter to Clinton's lawyer that a recorded and transcribed interview would help a House committee investigating the 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya better understand decisions Clinton made 'relevant to the creation, maintenance, retention, and ultimately deletion of public records'
article_snippet: At that point, he continued, a House committee investigating the 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya would consider calling her to testify under oath in an open, public hearing.
article_snippet: Clinton has until May 1 to sit down with congressional investigators and discuss Clinton use of a private email address from 2009 to 2013 – along with what happened to tens of thousands of Clinton messages .
article_snippet: Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill told the Associated Press on Tuesday that Clinton told GOWDY's committee months ago that Clinton was ready to appear at a public hearing. '
article_snippet: To be clear, Clinton remains ready to appear at a hearing open to the American public.'
article_snippet: Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the top Democrat on the Benghazi panel, said Clinton agreed to testify months ago, in public and under oath, 'so the Select Committee's claim that the Select Committee's has no choice but to subject Clinton to a private staff interview is inaccurate.'
article_snippet: Rather than drag out what he called a 'political charade,' Cummings said, the Select Committee's should schedule a public hearing with Clinton, make Clinton email public 'and re-focus her email efforts on the attacks in Benghazi.'
highlights_snippet: Her spokesman insists Her's ready to testify in public about 'email-gate'
  First step would be a recorded and transcribed interview with lawmakers and their lawyers .
  GOP chairman of committee investigating 2012 Benghazi terror attacks wants a third-party expert to examine Clinton's email server .
  
highlights_snippet: Republicans demand an interview by May 1, a deadline that could complicate Clinton's plan to announce a presidential run .
  