Hillary Clinton’s director of communications Jennifer Palmieri said Monday that the candidate doesn’t feel she has to turn over her secret email server to prove she is trustworthy.
Morning Joe panelist Nicolle Wallace asked her if Clinton could take further steps to show the American people she can be trusted.
"So she doesn’t feel like she has to turn over a server to show them that?" Wallace asked.
"We don’t think — no, we don’t think we have to do that," Palmieri said, stumbling over her words.
Clinton has raised eyebrows for her use of a secret email server during her time as secretary of state. Clinton has subsequently disclosed over 30,000 emails from this server to the State Department, while permanently deleting 32,000 others.
High-ranking government officials have used private email accounts in the past to avoid transparency and public disclosure laws.
Wallace said the missing email scandal, in conjunction with Clinton’s other scandals, contributes to her public image as untrustworthy.
"Do you guys worry about the hit to her trustworthy numbers after day after day, week after week of the story about the email server?" Wallace asked. "I'm not asking about a single story, but all of those together — the Clinton Cash book coming out, the email server, press access being limited. How do you combat that?"
Palmieri said the scandals were not "helpful," but said scandals are typical for politicians who have been in the public eye for decades like the 67-year-old Clinton.
"She’s got great experience," Palmieri said. "But with that comes, you know, comes a lot of issues that they can raise."
"Bad issues," host Joe Scarborough added.