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Morning Joe: Clinton Keeps Lying About Email Server, Honesty Numbers Getting 'Worse and Worse'

July 31, 2015

MSNBC's Morning Joe unpacked the news Friday of Hillary Clinton's lowest-ever favorability ratings and the revelation that she was viewed as less trustworthy than former President Bill Clinton after he admitted he'd lied under oath, with the consensus that her ongoing dishonesty over her private email server at the State Department was only going to keep wearing at her.

A new Quinnipiac poll revealed she had just a 40 percent favorability rating against 51 percent unfavorability, was 20 points underwater in being considered trustworthy (37-57) and trailed Republican candidate Jeb Bush 42-41 in a hypothetical matchup.

Also, McClatchy reported that classified emails on Clinton's private server contained information from five different U.S. intelligence agencies, again flying in the face of her claim that she never sent nor received any classified information over a potentially non-secure server.

"You have a brain, and you're told we've given you all the emails," co-host Mika Brzezinski said. "Well, they haven't, so why do they keep saying that?"

"They keep lying to you and they keep lying to reporters," host Joe Scarborough said. "They won't turn over her server ... Even the ones that they cherry-picked are very sensitive and dangerous."

Bloomberg's John Heilemann said the drip-drip of the email scandal was having a "churning" effect on her campaign.

"If you look consistently now over the months, her numbers on honest and trustworthy with the American people are getting progressively worse and worse," he said. "And they have argued now for months that it's not that bad, people trust her to fight for them, whatever. If you look at the numbers ever since this scandal issue, whatever you want to call it, started, she's gotten worse and worse on a key indicator for the general election ... Is it taking a long term political toll? I think it very well may be."

Scarborough then said Clinton polled worse than her husband did regarding honesty at the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal that led to his impeachment in the late 1990s.

Heilemann pointed out Hillary Clinton, as a "known commodity," had a problem to overcome since she couldn't really introduce herself to the country at this point.

"How does she fix that? How does she reintroduce herself to the country?" he asked. "What new positive information does she have to bring to the table? It's a challenge for her and a big one."