President Barack Obama steps out of Air Force One on Saturday at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego. The president says he didn’t get the impression anyone meant to “hide something or to squirrel away information”. However, he said she still needs to answer the questions which have dogged her throughout the campaign.
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A few of Clinton’s critics have accused the Obama administration of holding her to a double standard, saying it has for years pursued aggressive prosecution of other government staffers and officials caught with classified materials on their private computers.
“I think she’d be the 1st to acknowledge in that maybe she could have handled the original decision better and the disclosures more quickly”, Obama stated.
“You know, she made a mistake”.
“I don’t think there’s any politician at a national level – that has not thought about being the president”, Obama told Kroft. “Just as significant, most of the people really need to influence Wall Street to stay at as many as its acceptable part in our overall economy – helping out Main Street evolve and prosper”, Clinton provided in an op-ed as they introduced her new clear set of plans.
“I’m going to leave it to Hillary when she has an interview with you to address all these questions”, he finally concluded with a smile.
Obama did not go into detail why he believes that Clinton’s email system posed no national security risk.
Obama turned down opportunities from interviewer Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes to defend Clinton, instead describing the controversy as “legitimate”.
Obama first weighed in on Clinton’s home-brew email system days after it came to light in early March.
Obama also discussed his views on Syria during the interview.
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“The policy of my administration is to encourage transparency, which is why my emails, the BlackBerry I carry around, all those records are available and archived”, Mr. Obama said.
