AP’s Julie Pace: ‘Hard To Argue’ Hillary Didn’t Violate Letter or Spirit of The Law

‘I mean it was very clear to everyone in the administration, whatever agency you work at, whether you are at the White House or a cabinet post that you were supposed to keep government business on government e-mail’

AP's Julie Pace: "Hard To Argue" Hillary Didn't Violate Letter or Spirit Of The Law (RealClearPolitics)

CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS SUNDAY: Julie, you know, this was exactly what the Obama White House was worried about when they appointed Hillary Clinton to be secretary of state and, in fact, that's why they negotiated, the lawyers from the White House, the lawyers for the Clintons, negotiated a memorandum of understanding with tight rules of the road about foreign donations, foreign speeches, preapproval disclosure. Do you get the sense the folks at the White House feel that they've been burned by the Clintons on this?

JULIE PACE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: I think they feel like they've been put in a tough spot here. Because on the one hand, Secretary Clinton is someone who worked for this administration, the president grew to like her, thought she did a good job as secretary of state. At the same time, they knew when she took that job that there were going to be questions about the foundation. And they thought that they had set something up to deal with that. And now you see that there have been some instances where donations were not disclosed. The e-mail controversy, I think, bothered them even more because this was something that they thought was pretty clear to everybody in the administration.

WALLACE: But let me ask you about what Lanny Davis said and now that we've got you here.

(LAUGHTER)

WALLACE: Did she violate the spirit, if not the letter of the ...

PACE: It's hard to argue that she didn't. I mean it was very clear to everyone in the administration, whatever agency you work at, whether you are at the White House or a cabinet post that you were supposed to keep government business on government e-mail. If email went to your Gmail, you were supposed to forward it to your government e-mail. So, it was pretty clear what was supposed to be done there.

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