Hillary Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon acknowledged Tuesday that the thousands of previously undisclosed Clinton emails discovered by the FBI include work-related material she failed to initially turn over.
State Department lawyers confirmed to a federal judge on Monday that the FBI had uncovered nearly 15,000 documents during its investigation into her email practices as secretary of state. Clinton claimed in a press conference on March 10, 2015, that she turned over all work-related emails to the State Department from her tenure as secretary of state.
Clinton tried to laugh off the latest twist in the controversy on the late-night show Jimmy Kimmel Live, leading MSNBC reporter Kristen Welker to ask Fallon on Tuesday if that was a smart strategy.
"She’s been answering questions about this for over a year. Of course it’s an issue that she takes responsibility for," Fallon said. "She has said that she apologizes for it ... In terms of these additional emails, if any of them turn out to be work-related, I suspect there’s a mix of personal nature, emails that are of a personal nature, in there, but to the extent that there are ones that are work-related, we want those to be released, too. We said that yesterday."
A federal judge on Monday ordered the State Department to accelerate the release of the newly discovered emails.