NBC’s Chuck Todd said Friday on Morning Joe that Hillary Clinton has created a "burden" on the State Department with her choice to use a private email server.
The State Department has come under scrutiny for being slow in releasing Clinton’s emails. A federal judge said on Wednesday that he could not understand why it was taking so long to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests.
"She made the choice to have the private email server," Todd said. "She made the choice to do it this way and then she dumped all this on the State Department and said ‘Oh, no, go release it in a timely fashion.’"
Todd said that if the Clinton camp had been archiving in a timely fashion from the time she first started in office to the time that she left, this situation would not have happened. The State Department is currently behind schedule in processing and releasing the 55,000 pages of Clinton's emails. Because of a court ordered mandate, the department must produce batches of Clinton's emails every month.
Clinton is facing dismal poll numbers with only 37 percent of voters saying they find her trustworthy.
The State Department has been silent on what has been taking so long for the emails to be released. Todd said that maybe the department was overwhelmed with having to deal with a backlog of information.
"She can claim she’s doing the same protocol as Colin Powell but that was basically a half generation ago in how communications were dealt with," Todd said. "It is a classic deflection and sort of confusing the matter in the moment."