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Hillary Clinton Tries to ‘Clarify and Explain’ Controversial Comments About Email Probe

I’ve taken responsibility for that.

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Clinton said she had meant to point to Comey’s statement that FBI investigators found her to be forthcoming and cooperative during their sit-down with her. Comey, however, said Clinton’s past statements about never sending or receiving classified material were not accurate because investigators found several emails that did contain classified information, though it was not labeled properly, meaning Clinton may have not realized she had received it.

Clinton offered conflicting statements on that point Friday.

In an effort to clarify her most recent statements about her use of a private email server as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton on Friday only further muddled a controversy that has dogged her presidential candidacy from the start.

THE FACTS: Comey has declined to say precisely what Clinton told FBI investigators, but he has never directly called Clinton’s comments truthful.

Most American voters believe Hillary Clinton is untrustworthy and dishonest and in a traditional presidential race, her repeated lies about classified e-mail would be hurting her in the polls.

“Mr. Putin played upon Mr. Trump’s vulnerabilities by complimenting him”, Morell wrote in an op-ed for the New York Times. Sure, she was probably nervous that people like me would write articles like this one. She said that she may have “short-circuited” – that was her word – her previous answer on this. This is like when Jeb Bush was unable to answer simple questions about the Iraq War.

Clinton’s lead in the polls has expanded in the past few days, but in Washington today, reporters questioned her about the emails that have followed her through her campaign.

Clinton also made a reference to Comey’s testimony on the existence of about 100 emails containing classified information at the time they were sent or received – but she continued to suggest that they were not marked classified at the time and were retroactively classified.

Let’s unpack that. Out of 110 emails that Comey testified contained classified information (which constituted only 0.2% of Hillary’s 55,000 emails), only three had any markings indicating the presence of classified material. Director Comey said that only three out of 30,000 had anything resembling classified markers. Armed with a quartet of fictional marionette heads, Republicans fashioned the narrative into a talking point that even pro-Hillary media yappers didn’t bother to refute. “Using the server was a mistake”.

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Intending to be legally bound, I hereby accept the obligations contained in this Agreement in consideration of my being granted access to classified information. I spent over thirty thousand e mails on to the State Department that we’re… a work related… My emails have now received much more attention than they would have if I had acted with more care. “America is better than Donald Trump”. Those who remain are likely to be from heavily Republican districts, and Trump won the party nomination on a platform of mass deportation and restricting legal immigration that energized a large contingent of conservatives eager to reverse trends that are making the US less white and more ethnically diverse.

Hillary Clinton says she has work to do with Americans who don't trust her