Former US Attorney General Loretta Lynch ordered the then head of the FBI to refer to the inquiry into Hillary Clinton's emails as a "matter" rather than an investigation, he has said.
Loretta Lynch instructed Comey not to call the criminal investigation into the Clinton server a criminal investigation.
Congressional Republicans have compared the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller in the current Russian Federation investigation with Lynch's refusal to appoint one in the 2016 probe into Clinton's use of a private email server for government communications.
When Comey announced that neither Clinton nor her aides would face charges, he nevertheless publicly called her setup extremely careless with classified information.
"At one point, the attorney general directed me not to call it an investigation, but to call it a matter, and that confused me and concerned me", Comey said.
Tucker said Comey has been inconsistent by making untrue statements that echoed the Clinton campaign's talking points, and then refusing to publicly say the truth about President Donald Trump not being under FBI investigation related to the Russian Federation probe.
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But Kaine, a Virginia Democrat, said there was no decision within the campaign to use the word "matter" opposed to investigation.
Whether intentional or not, Comey said, Lynch's command "gave the impression the attorney general was looking to align the way we talked about our work with the way a political campaign was describing the same activity".
In his opening monologue tonight, Tucker Carlson reacted to former FBI Director James Comey's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
But Comey told lawmakers he wouldn't have done things differently with regard to his decision on the Clinton email case.
Comey, who began his tenure as Federal Bureau of Investigation director in 2013 before being fired by Trump last month, subsequently faced severe questioning on Capitol Hill about his decision. The Democratic candidate and her supporters have since claimed that Comey's statement helped cost Clinton the election.
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