CNN host Chris Cuomo corrected Hillary Clinton surrogate Joel Benenson Monday when he tried to imply that Cuomo was incorrect when citing the State Department Inspector General report that slammed Clinton's use of a private email server.
The New Day co-host questioned Benenson about Clinton's consistent trustworthiness problem with voters.
"With Trump, temperament is becoming an issue," Cuomo said. "With Clinton, trust has always been the issue, from A to Z. Doesn't matter who we're talking to, and it's as true now as it was at the beginning. The IG report cemented that for people. The spin out on your side ... is that IG report said no law was broken. It said a lot of things, like she never asked permission, nobody ever did this with this server, that she shouldn't have deleted the emails. And all of those go to trust. How do you combat that image?"
Benenson said the best way to combat this was to address the questions, which he pointed out Clinton has done so repeatedly.
"And some of the things you just said are absolutely correct," he said.
Cuomo jumped in to correct Benenson.
"All of the things I just said are absolutely correct," Cuomo said.
Benenson ignored this correction to say that the State Department needs to clarify and modernize their rules on this, saying the Clinton campaign wants to keep their message about "issues and ideas."
"The I.G., the State Department has to clarify and modernize the communications about what rules exist," Benenson said. "Secretary Kerry is the first Secretary of State to have a state dot gov email address. But, what's going to go on here is there are going to be positives and negatives that each candidate is going to speak about themselves and about each other. What's going to happen here is that there's going to be a campaign of issues and ideas, because that's what voters care about."