State Dept. Struggles To Refute Details About Hillary Clinton Staff’s Private Email Use

‘I know her team actually spoke to this in the story, so I’ll let her team speak for itself’

LEE: "Let talk about one of the other things that was said in a story that was --"

HARF: "OK."

LEE: "The story says that contrary to what former Secretary Clinton said in her news conference that she did in fact emailed -- used her private email to email State Department employees on their private email accounts. Is that part of the story correct, and if it is, does the State Department have problem with that?"

HARF: "Well, a couple of points, Matt. First, each of the individuals that are represented in the story have State Department email as you all probably are well aware. There are times employees use personal email addresses for work. We said there are ways, people can take appropriate steps to preserve those records. So we have also said that. Her staff as we said has state.gov emails. I know her team actually spoke to this in a story so I will let her team speak for itself. But I will remind people that the State Department sent a letter earlier this month to a small group of current and former employees whose emails have been subpoenaed by the Select Committee in which we have asked for any record in their possession. So that letter went out and that's a process we think is important.

LEE: "Well -- right, except that she said that she always copied the state.gov --" [crosstalk]

HARF: "Her team spoke to that in the story so I am not going to speak further to that."

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