Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) Monday morning argued against Hillary Clinton's campaign talking points, defending her use of one email system for both her personal and work correspondence when she was secretary of state.
Bloomberg's Mark Halperin asked Durbin on Morning Joe what he would tell Clinton if, as secretary of state, she told him she was considering using a private server to operate all of her emails from. Durbin responded the he was not sure, but identified Clinton's problem as something all members of Congress must deal with. He stated that all government officials struggle to make sure that their official emails and personal emails do not get mixed up on the wrong accounts.
Before Mika Brzezinski could follow up with a question of her own, host Joe Scarborough pressed Durbin on his statement.
"We all knew, and I knew you knew, that it was black and white. You just didn't do campaign business on your personal accounts and you didn't send emails on your official business accounts," Scarborough said. "And that's why as a former member and you as a current member you look at this arrangement and ask ‘How could she have done this?’ Because we're taught from the first day in."
Durbin agreed with Scarborough, but said that as a member of Congress, he has to remind others not to send official emails to his personal email account and vice versa.
"You just made my point. What she did is she only set up one account so she forced everyone that had political inquiries, professional inquiries, classified information to all go to that one account," Scarborough said. "That's really dangerous."
Durbin backed off of his previous statements and said he did not believe Clinton was motivated to hide things on her server from government observation such as Freedom of Information Act requests. Durbin also said he did not understand why Clinton kept her server in the basement but said "she will be asked about that plenty on Thursday," referring to her appearance before the House Benghazi Committee this week.