NBC Today anchor Natalie Morales said Wednesday that the latest tranche of Hillary Clinton emails "leaves little doubt that the Obama administration was aware of her personal email address."
Morales noted that top Obama advisors Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod requested Clinton’s private email address as early as her first year as Secretary of State.
Axelrod claimed two weeks ago that he "did not know" about Clinton’s private email server but "might have asked some questions" had he known about it.
Morales also noted Clinton’s job woes at the State Department.
"The emails also show she struggled to fit into the Obama administration and worried how much time she had with her new boss," Morales said.
President Barack Obama's top aides, including David Axelrod, communicated with Hillary Clinton at her private email address while she was secretary of state, new records show.
White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel had also asked for Clinton's email address, and Clinton instructed her staff to give it to him.
Her use of private email was out of step with the State Department's rules against employees regularly using personal email for work purposes. Obama officials -- including Axelrod -- had said they were unaware Clinton was using a personal email address. He told MSNBC this month that he would have asked questions about it if he'd been aware of her email habits.
"I knew it wasn't a government address. I didn't know that she used it exclusively," Axelrod told CNN in an email.
News of Clinton's use of a private email address on a personal server in her New York home broke this year as she prepared to launch her campaign for the 2016 presidential nomination.
The State Department posted to its website just before 9 p.m. Tuesday the latest batch of Clinton's emails from her time in office -- this time, 1,925 separate emails totaling more than 3,000 pages, all from 2009. It's a fraction of the 55,000 pages of emails Clinton turned over to State for processing. The department is releasing the documents in sets monthly, under a U.S. District Court ruling, after they're reviewed and with some information redacted.