Hillary on Mass-Deleting E-mails: ‘Everything I Did Was Permitted’

‘I went above and beyond what anybody could have expected in making sure that if the State Department didn’t capture something, I made a real effort to get it to them’

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KEILAR: "--Facing a subpoena, deleted e-mails from them?" 
CLINTON: "You know, you're starting with so many assumptions -- I've never had a subpoena, there's nothing -- again, let's take a deep breath here, everything I did was permitted by law and regulation, I had one device, when I mailed anybody in the government, it would go into the government system. Now, I didn't have to turn over anything. I chose to turn over 55,000 pages because I wanted to go above and beyond what was expected of me. Because I knew the vast majority of everything that was official already was in the state Department system. And now I think it's kind of fun, people get a real time behind the scenes look at what I was e-mailing about, and what I was communicating about." 
KEILAR: "Warm socks as you said -- Working a fax machine." 
CLINTON: "Yes, different than the regular -- So, yes, this is being blown up with no basis in law or in fact. That's fine, I get it, this is being in effect used by the Republicans in the Congress. Okay, but I want people to understand what the truth is. And the truth is, everything I did was permitted. And I went above and beyond what anybody could have expected in making sure that if the State Department didn't capture something, I made a real effort to get it to them. And I had no obligation to do any of that. So let's set the record straight. And those 55,000 pages will be released over the course of this year, people can again make their own judgment."

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