The Obama Justice Department told the FBI not to consider charging Hillary Clinton with gross negligence, according to Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX).

Tweeting an excerpt of the transcripts of former FBI lawyer Lisa Page's testimony (which were made public yesterday), Ratcliffe wrote, "Lisa Page confirmed to me under oath that the FBI was ordered by the Obama DOJ not to consider charging Hillary Clinton for gross negligence in the handling of classified information."

In the excerpt, Ratcliffe said to Page, "But when you say advice you got from the Department, you're making it sound like it was the Department that told you: You're not going to charge gross negligence because we're the prosecutors and we're telling you we're not going to —"

That is correct," Page interrupted, as Ratcliffe finished his sentence, " — bring a case based on that."