Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential nominee, on Sunday was unable to answer when questioned if the former secretary of state lied to the American public about sending classified information via email.
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In the interview, on Fox News Sunday, Clinton said Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey had called Clinton’s statements on her private email servers were “truthful”, and suggested that her public statements about the matter had been consistent.
Clinton’s appearance on “Fox News Sunday” was her first time on the program in almost five years and only her fourth time appearing on Fox News Channel since announcing her presidential candidacy in 2015.
THE FACTS: Comey has declined to say precisely what Clinton told FBI investigators, but he has never directly called Clinton’s comments truthful.
HILLARY CLINTON: There is no classified material, so I’m certainly well aware of the classification requirements. Aides says she’s conducted over 300 interviews since launching her campaign, but she has shied away from open forums where reporters can ask questions.
Young Americans are divided over Hillary Clinton’s handling of her email account while she was secretary of state, with most young whites saying she intentionally broke the law and those of color more likely to give her the benefit of the doubt. But the bottom line is this.
“Instead of coming clean about her secret email setup which jeopardized national security, Hillary Clinton continues to run from transparency and accountability – and voters deciding on the next president of the United States can have no faith she will level with them on this or any other issue”.
Clinton also vowed to push hard to pass a comprehensive immigration overhaul bill with a path toward citizenship for those in the country illegally, and said she would make the issue a priority during her first 100 days in office.
And he walked into the interview at a rather odd moment for the Clinton/Kaine ticket, following up a solid week of devastatingly bad coverage from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, but also some self-inflicted wounds on Hillary Clinton’s part, too.
Yet, the fact of the matter is that Clinton was never comfortable answering questions about her emails.
HILLARY CLINTON: I may have short-circuited it, and, for that, I will try to clarify. “The problem was that Clinton misrepresented what James Comey told the American people”.
Clinton repeatedly said she did not have any classified information whatsoever in her email, marked or unmarked.
“So what we have here is pretty much what I have been saying throughout this whole year, and that is that I never sent or received anything that was marked classified”, according to Clinton.
The Trump campaign pounced on Clinton’s comment from the Fox interview, labeling it “pants on fire”.
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Accordingly, like Director Comey said in announcing that he would not recommend an indictment against Clinton, “any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation”.
