Hillary Clinton told ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir Tuesday that she disagrees with Director James Comey's assessment that she was "extremely careless" with classified information.
"The Director also, though, said you were extremely careless," he said Tuesday. "Do you agree with him?"
"Well, I respectfully disagree," she said.
Earlier in the interview, Muir asked Clinton if the recent news of her aides disposing of old phones with hammers and telling the Federal Bureau of Investigation that she was either unaware or misunderstood how to handle classified information feeds into the thought of her being careless with her email use.
"Well, I hope not because I take classification very seriously," she said.
She continued in her answer to explain what happened with her classification in her emails.
"With respect to classification, on classified documents, there is what's called a header," she said. "It says this material is top secret, secret, or confidential. There were no headers on the thousands of emails that I sent or received. There just weren't, and the FBI has not in any way contradicted that. There were a couple of emails with a tiny ‘c’ in a parenthesis, which did not have a header, saying that means confidential in this circumstance, in which the director of the FBI has said, and the State Department has said, those couple of emails were improperly marked, even with that."
Muir corrected her.
"But, authorities say that ‘c’ stood for can confidential," he said.
She said that there was no header with the classification; however, it was located later in the email.