Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, insisted Monday that FBI Director James Comey said that Clinton was truthful when he testified about her private email server to Congress earlier this month, despite the Washington Post arguing the opposite in a fact check published Sunday.
MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell asked Podesta about Clinton’s claim Sunday on Fox News that Comey’s testimony was consistent with her past claims about her emails and proved she was truthful, and the subsequent Washington Post evaluation, which said Clinton’s comment was false.
"Why did Hillary Clinton say to Chris Wallace on Fox that the FBI director had said she’d been truthful? What he said was that there was no evidence she was untruthful," Mitchell said. "So, she got four Pinocchios from the Washington Post for that."
"Well look, I think, you know, what she said and what we believe is, and what I think Director Comey said in his testimony when he finally testified before Congress was that Director Comey believed that she was telling the truth when she said she did not believe that those emails were unclassified," Podesta responded. "They had no classification markings."
"But what Director Comey finally concluded was that no reasonable person would conclude that she was doing other than telling what she believed at the time which is that they were not classified," Podesta added.