CNN New Day anchor Michaela Pereira said the headline that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would face a criminal probe regarding sensitive information on her private email account was "pretty damning, I have to imagine, politically for a presidential candidate."
"As a headline, it's very troubling," said CNN's John King. "We do know it is raising questions about this arrangement where she had a private email server at her home in Chappaqua, New York, where she had government information going back and forth. The question is, was sensitive government information somehow mishandled? ... We've talked daily recently about how one of her biggest issues in the campaign is honesty and trustworthiness, so a headline like this will not help."
The New York Times broke the story overnight, although its headline evolved, without an online explanation, from "Criminal Inquiry Sought in Hillary Clinton’s Use of Email" to the more passive "Criminal Inquiry Is Sought in Clinton Email Account." New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt said the Clinton campaign's complaints about the initial wording were "reasonable" enough to merit a change.
