Caving to mounting pressure, the FBI now plans to give Congress its notes from the agency’s 3.5-hour interview with Hillary Clinton as early as this week.

Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, requested that FBI Director James Comey release the entire “investigative file” on the agency’s year-long probe into Clinton’s use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state. The committee also requested the agency’s notes from its interview with Clinton that occurred just prior to Comey’s press conference in which he announced that he recommended no charges against her – despite her reckless conduct.

“The bottom line is that the people of America know that she does not tell the truth, and we deserve the right to see the transcripts or the notes from the FBI,” Brewer said.

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Comey responded to the committee’s request on July 7, telling its members that “I’ll commit to giving you everything I can possibly give you under the law and to doing it as quickly as possible,” according to Politico. But that response, and the ensuing clarification that the FBI would not hand over a transcript from its interview with Clinton, sparked outrage that the FBI was running cover for the Democratic nominee.

Over the weekend Comey relented, and the FBI announced that even though it does not have a complete transcript of its interview with Clinton, it will release its notes taken during the interview to Congress.

Former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, applauded the FBI’s decision, citing Clinton’s reputation for not being truthful.

“Hillary Clinton is a known non-truth teller,” Brewer told CNN’s “State of the Union” when she praised the FBI’s decision. “The bottom line is that the people of America know that she does not tell the truth, and we deserve the right to see the transcripts or the notes from the FBI.”