Clinton: I Never E-mailed Classified Documents

KARL: “Madam — Madam Secretary [crosstalk]. Madam Secretary — excuse me. Madam Secretary, State Department rules at the time you were secretary were perfectly clear that if a State Department employee was going to be using private e-mail, that employee needed to turn those e-mails over to the State Department to be preserved on government computers. Why did you not do that and why did you not go along with State Department rules until nearly two years after you left office? And also, the president of the United States said that he was unaware that you had this unusual e-mail arrangement, the White House Counsel's Office says that you never approved the arrangement through them. Why did you not do that and why did you apparently caught the White House by surprise? (Laughter) And then just one last political question if I might, does all of this make — affect your decision in any way on whether or not to run for president?” 
CLINTON: “Well let me try to unpack your multiple questions. First, the laws and regulations in effect when I was secretary of state allowed me to use my e-mail for work. That is undisputed. Secondly, under the Federal Records Act, records are defined as recorded information regardless of its form or characteristics and in meeting the record obligation it was my practice to e-mail government officials on their state or other .gov accounts so that the emails were immediately captured and preserved. 
There are different rules governing the White House than there are governing the rest of the executive branch and in order to address the requirements I was under, I did exactly what I have said. I e-mailed to people and I not only I knew, I expected that to be captured in the State Department or any other government agency that I was e-mailing to at a dot-gov account. What happened in — I guess late summer, early fall, is that the State Department sent a letter to former secretaries of state, not just to me, asking for some assistance in providing any work-related e-mails that might be on the personal e-mail. And what I did was to direct my counsel to conduct a thorough investigation and to air on the side of providing anything that could be connected to work. They did that. And that was my obligation. I fully fulfilled it. And then I took the unprecedented step of saying, go ahead and release them and let people see them.” 
REPORTER I: “Why did you wait two months? Why did you wait two months to turn the e-mails over when the rules say you have to turn them over?” 
REPORTER II: “Why delete the personal e-mails?”[crosstalk] 
CLINTON: “I would be happy to have someone talk to you about the rules. I fully complied with every rule that I was governed by.” 
REPORTER: “Were you briefed on the security implications of using your own e-mail server or using your own personal e-mail address with the president?” 
CLINTON: “I did not e-mail any classified material to anyone on my e-mail. There is no classified material. So I am certainly well aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.” 
REPORTER: "[indecipherable]"
CLINTON: “Because they were personal and private about matters that I believed were within the scope of my personal privacy and that particularly of other people. They had nothing to do with work. But I didn’t see any reason to keep them.” 
REPORTER: “When did you delete them?” 
CLINTON: “At the end of the process.”