Woodward compared the drama surrounding Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s private emails to the Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal. Thousands of hours of secretly recorded conversations that Nixon thought were exclusively hers – his, that he was not going to get them. “It, in a way, reminds me of the Nixon tapes”, he said.
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The Clinton email scandal has taken many twists and turns since the story broke in March. Clinton, who turned over work-related emails to the State Department, has said that her emails contained no classified information, and that the emails she deleted from the server were personal. There’s going to be no cooperation. Bad memories, not only of Watergate but the Monica Lewinsky affair, are starting to sour erstwhile Hillary Clinton supporters on the whole idea of a Clinton restoration. “Who decided that? What’s on those emails?” he said. Is she this secretive, hidden person, or is she this valiant public servant?
“This has to go on a long, long time, and the answers are probably not going to be pretty”, Woodward concluded. And there’s a hydraulic pressure always in the system here. You have to be careful about this.
“The facts are the same as they have been from the very beginning”, she said. This is dirty politics.
Still, nothing has been proven to be illegal, he said, and perhaps it’s time to slow down a bit. Scarborough asked. “I think this is unprecedented”. “But, they’re going to have to get some answers”.
As former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s legal and ethical problems mount over her use of an unsecured email server to store classified documents, she received a bone-chilling blast from the past.
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In the meantime, the first calls for Ms. Clinton to withdraw from the race for the presidency are starting to be heard, though thus far from just a few journalistic quarters. Easier to describe the creation of the universe.
