In his first public appearance since announcing on Tuesday that the FBI would not recommend prosecuting Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server as secretary of state, agency director James Comey defended his decision before the House Oversight Committee on Thursday.

Paul Ryan may be openly disgusted with Donald Trump, but he does seem willing to do his bidding: This morning, the Republican House leader sent a letter to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper asking for Hillary Clinton to be banned from receiving classified information during her presidential campaign.

At a press conference held on Tuesday morning in Washington, D.C., FBI Director James Comey told reporters that his agency will not recommend an criminal indictment against Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server to conduct official, and in many cases classified, correspondence during her tenure as Secretary of State.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, FBI director James Comey, lacking any evidence beyond the anecdotal, said that he believed a “viral video effect...could well be at the heart” of a spike in violent crimes in more than 40 cities during the first quarter of 2016.

During an oversight hearing on the Justice Department held by the House judiciary committee on Tuesday, The Guardian reports that U.S. attorney general Loretta Lynch said that there is “no data” to support the so-called “Ferguson effect.”

There is “little evidence” behind the FBI director’s notorious “Ferguson effect” according to the FBI director himself.