--- title: James Comey Testifies Before Senate: Watch Online description: FBI Director James Comey will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing on FBI oversight canonical: https://time.com/4764715/james-comey-senate-hearing-russia-trump-clinton/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-03T12:51:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:43:17.343Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Live: James Comey Testifies Before Senate og:description: The FBI director will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee og:url: https://time.com/4764715/james-comey-senate-hearing-russia-trump-clinton/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0bb1a5a50100f194/6988cbc82dce0148919ed50e/james-comey-senate-hearing.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: FBI Director Comey Discusses Counterterrorism And Cybersecurity At DC Dinner og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live: James Comey Testifies Before Senate twitter:description: The FBI director will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0bb1a5a50100f194/6988cbc82dce0148919ed50e/james-comey-senate-hearing.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Live: James Comey Testifies Before the Senate by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. May 3, 2017 12:51 PM CUT  Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey delivers the keynote remarks at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance Leadership Dinner March 29, 2017 in Alexandria, Virginia. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey delivers the keynote remarks at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance Leadership Dinner March 29, 2017 in Alexandria, Virginia.Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. May 3, 2017 12:51 PM CUT FBI Director James Comey will testify before the [Senate Judiciary Committee](http://time.com/4723448/neil-gorsuch-confirmation-vote-senate/ "undefined") in a hearing on FBI oversight on Wednesday, one day after both President Donald Trump and former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton criticized him. The hearing before the Judiciary Committee, which is slated to start around 10 a.m., will not directly deal with the FBI’s investigation of [potential coordination](http://time.com/4754803/donald-trump-russia-investigation-momentum/ "undefined") between the Trump campaign and Russia, though senators plan to ask the FBI director about it, the Associated Press reports. Senators are also expected to ask Comey about his decision and timing in publicly announcing investigations, something that has made the director a controversial figure among Democrats and Republicans alike. Several Democrats, including Clinton, claim Comey’s public announcement in October that the bureau had [reopened its investigation into Clinton’s private email server](http://time.com/4550453/hillary-clinton-james-comey-fbi-emails/ "undefined") cost her the election. “I was on the way to winning until a combination of Jim Comey’s letter on Oct. 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me and got scared off,” Clinton [told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour](http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/02/politics/hillary-clinton-planned-parenthood-women-for-women/index.html "undefined") on Tuesday. Trump also [criticized Comey](http://time.com/4764639/donald-trump-james-comey-hillary-clinton/ "undefined") on Tuesday for his role in the 2016 election. “FBI Director Comey was the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds!” the President [tweeted](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/859601184285491201 "undefined"). “The phony Trump/Russia story was an excuse used by the Democrats as justification for losing the election. 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