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NBC: IG Says Two Clinton Emails Should Have Been Classified Top-Secret 'Despite Her Repeated Past Denials'

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SAVANNAH GUTHRIE : First our top story. News this is morning that Hillary Clinton has reversed course and turned over her personal e-mail server. Federal investigators looking into whether it contained classified information. While Jeb Bush goes on the attack blasting Clinton's time as Secretary of State and laying the rise of ISIS right at her feet. We've got it covered this morning, starting with Andrea Mitchell on this e-mail controversy. Good morning to you.

ANDREA MITCHELL: Good morning, Savannah. more controversy for Hillary Clinton today. Despite her repeated past denials the intelligence community's Inspector General says two of her e-mails should have been classified top secret, the highest level of U.S. intelligence, even as the FBI finally gets control of the private server.

Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire Tuesday as aides confirm she has turned over her private server to the FBI. In addition her attorney, David Kendall, gave the FBI two thumb drives containing her e-mails. All this as the intelligence community watchdog contradicted Clinton's repeated claim that nothing on the private e-mails was classified.

HILLARY CLINTON: I did not e-mail any classified material to anyone on my e-mail. there is no classified material.

Clinton said there were no classified markings on any of her e-mails.

CLINTON: I am confident i never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received.

But the Inspector General has told congress two of Clinton's e-mails should have been classified Top Secret with code words indicating electronic eavesdropping from satellites, so sensitive it could not be shared with foreign allies. Raising serious questions about the security of the private system, set up in her home.

CLIP: A server at a house probably wouldn't have the security monitoring you would expect at a government facility. At a government facility you have cameras and staff watching the systems around the clock.

The controversy has been a huge distraction for Clinton's campaign and fodder for Republicans.

CLIP: It's sad to think but probably the Russian and Chinese government know more about Hillary Clinton's e-mail server than members of the United States Congress.

MITCHELL: Clinton said she deleted more than 30,000 of the e-mails from the private server that were purely personal, she said, before turning them over. Thousands more to the State Department. Now the FBI could recover the deleted e-mails. In any case this is a controversy that's not going away any time soon. Matt and Savannah?

GUTHRIE: All right, Andrea Mitchell in Washington, thank you.