Todd on Hillary’s E-mail Scandal: This Will ‘Do Nothing to Help Her Politically’
BRZEZINSKI: “Hillary Clinton's old private e-mail server is now in the hands of the FBI according to The Washington Post. A lawyer from the company who managed it turned it over with no subpoena or search warrant from the bureau. And she added it's blank and contains no useful data.”
CONFESSORE: “(Laughs)”
BRZEZINSKI: “Nick is laughing. For the years Clinton was secretary of state the server lived in the Clinton’s Chappaqua basement, according to the paper. But in 2013 after she left office, she brought on a Colorado company to manage her private e-mail and according to the company, the old server was moved to a third-party data center set up to be secure from hacking and natural disasters. The information on it was migrated to a new server. Meanwhile, lawyers for Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin to top Clinton staffers assured a federal judge yesterday they would not erase any e-mails having to do with their time at state. Clinton’s team has tried to stem the damage with her communications director writing in a lengthy post yesterday that, ‘this kind of nonsense comes with the territory of running for president.’ Jen Palmieri added ‘Hillary didn't send any classified materials over e-mail. Hillary only used her personal account for unclassified e-mail. No information in her e-mails was marked classified at the time she sent or received them. She viewed classified materials in hard copy in her office or via other secure means while traveling.’ And a new Monmouth poll shows the political toll, about half of those polled said her e-mail should be subject to investigation over the potential release of classified information and while the same number say it was just a matter of convenience, 38 percent of people believe Clinton was hiding something. The poll also shows her favorables upside down by ten points. Chuck Todd, unpack all this. Kind of feel like it backs up the point I was making about Trump. I just -- I think I went on for three minutes there trying to tell this story.”
TODD: “You did. Mika, please, we all knew this moment was coming. Six months ago at some point the server was going to end up in the hands of somebody and why they made it so that it got dragged out of them rather than early on them being pro-active, you know, this is now going to do nothing to help her politically. Nothing to help, sort of get rid of the taint that they were looking for something to hide and instead it looks like that they are reluctantly cooperating with an investigation. They’re not happy about it. But all right. Here you go. Here it is finally. By the way, it's blank. Good luck. They could have done this six months ago.”
