“I did it for convenience and it turned out not to be that at all“.
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“I think it will be all right“, he added.
The former president said he has “never seen so much extended on so little”.
The historical comparison marks a new line of defense for Clinton, who’s seen her poll numbers fall amid lingering questions about her email usage. At the beginning of the year, he said, his wife “was the most admired person in public life”.
Earlier this week, newly discovered email correspondence between Clinton and retired Gen. David Petraeus when he headed the military’s U.S. Central Command, raised fresh questions about whether she truly provided to the government a full record of her work-related correspondence as secretary of state. “What happened? The presidential campaign happened”, he said.
Clinton’s increasingly intense efforts to clear the fog surrounding her over the email server furor are simply explained: her standing among voters continues to tumble. “I can’t predict to you what the Republicans will come up with, what kind of, you know, charges or claims they might make”.
Clinton told host Chuck Todd that her attorneys conducted the review and decided what emails were personal versus what emails were work related. Now that it’s taken custody of Hillary’s old server, the bureau has managed to recover at least some of the messages she deleted before sharing what she believed State was entitled to.
Clinton said that “there was a transition period” when she joined the State Department and that she “wasn’t that focused on my e-mail account”.
Clinton insisted that she had “done all that I can to take responsibility, to be as transparent as possible” and said it was “totally ridiculous” to suggest she set up the email server was to make it more hard to access under the Freedom of Information Act.
Todd: Why, Why, I would want to know what emails… “I can only do the best i can to try to respond”. I relied on people who were and we have done everything we could in response to the State Department asking us to do this review because they asked all the former secretaries.
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Todd also played a montage of Clinton’s flip-flops on issues over the years – including her vote on the 2003 invasion of Iraq that she later admitted was a mistake, her past opposition to same-sex marriage, and her statement that she was “inclined” to support the Keystone XL Pipeline to which she recently announced her opposition.
