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Todd: Clinton Looked More Defensive Than Ever Answering Questions About Private Email

July 8, 2015

Meet the Press host Chuck Todd remarked Wednesday on Today that Hillary Clinton appeared more defensive than ever about her private email server during her interview with CNN Tuesday evening.

"I thought it was more defensive this time than it was during her initial email press conference," Todd said. "She showed no remorse, no regret, where in the initial press conference she said, you know what, maybe I should have done it differently. None of that was in this one. Very defiant. It's almost as if she's enjoying the House Republicans attacking her."

Clinton appeared irritated at Brianna Keilar's questioning on the matter Tuesday night, saying it was fully permissible for her to do what she did.

"People should and do trust me. And I have every confidence that that will be the outcome of this election," Clinton said.

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman agreed that Clinton appeared defensive in the interview with Keilar.

"The emails, she was very defensive answering questions about that," Haberman said. "I was very struck by it. She still, I think, thinks this is an unfair issue. She’s clearly very angry about the congressional hearings into this topic, thinks that it has gone too far. She had one line where she said I didn’t have to turn over anything … That’s not a great answer to that question considering that she was using private email for government-related business."

Clinton's use of a private email server was outed in March, and she said at her initial conference that she used one at the State Department for "convenience" while also acknowledging she had deleted more than 30,000, which she deemed were of a personal nature. She conceded, at the time, it might have been smarter to just use a government account.

A Quinnipiac poll conducted in June found that voters in Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania do not see Clinton as honest or trustworthy.