CNN correspondent Jim Sciutto said on Wednesday that it is a "fair question" for Americans to question the ethics of the email correspondence between Hillary Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta and Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik.
Sciutto began the CNN segment by playing a clip of Donald Trump criticizing Kadzik and Podesta at a Miami rally earlier Wednesday afternoon.
"Now today in a new released email through WikiLeaks, again we learned that Kadzik was feeding information about the investigation into the Clinton campaign and that Kadzik said, 'It will be a while before the State Department posts the emails,'" Trump said.
Following the clip, Sciutto read the WikiLeaks email that shows Kadzik using a private email address to communicate with Podesta.
The email from May 19, 2015, was revealed in hacked emails from Podesta's private account that WikiLeaks released Wednesday. The U.S. government has accused Russia of penetrating American political networks to influence the 2016 election.
"There is a HJC oversight hearing today where the head of of our Civil Division will testify. Likely to get questions on State Department emails. Another filing in the FOIA case went in last night or will go in this A.M. that indicates it will be a while (2016) before the State Department posts the emails," Kadzik emailed Podesta.
Sciutto then asked whether the Kadzik-Podesta communication was a conflict of interest.
"To be clear, the Hill hearing schedule would have been public. The FOIA issue was the subject of a court filing, which also would have soon been made public. However, Kadzik used a personal email to communicate with someone who was not even a party to that FOIA lawsuit, someone that happened to be a former client," Sciutto reported.
"It may not have been illegal, but was it too close for many Americans, unseemly, perhaps unethical? Certainly a fair question there," Sciutto added.
Sciutto said that he reached out to the Justice Department and Clinton campaign for comment, but they both declined the requests.