The decision of former Hillary Clinton aide Bryan Pagliano to plead the Fifth Amendment on questions surrounding her private email server could not be a "politically worse outcome" for her, NBC's Chuck Todd said Friday.
Pagliano, identified in digital records as setting up Clinton's server at the State Department in 2009, announced late Wednesday he would not answer questions after being subpoenaed by the congressional Benghazi Select Committee.
Appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Todd said it appeared Clinton's campaign was losing control of the story.
"You cannot come up with a politically worse outcome than suddenly when you realize this email story is no longer in your control," Todd said. "You're a campaign, and you've got former staffers taking the Fifth and you realize somebody has decided what's in the best interest of Hillary Clinton is not in the best interest of them, then that's how stories like this become out of your control, and that's when you sit there and say you can't assume anything right now."
Clinton will sit down with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell later today to presumably address the latest chapter in her email scandal, which has hurt her favorability numbers and perception of trust from the public.