Earnest: Clinton Has Been ‘Straightforward’ on E-mail Scandal

HASSELBECK: “Can she continue to blame Republicans really for this? I mean, it’s the Obama administration on Friday found a bunch of e-mails that she hadn't revealed. This is not about the Republicans, is it?”

EARNEST: “Well, look, the -- my friends on the Clinton campaign are dealing with a tough story and I think what they have done is they tried to do the right thing, which is that -- I think that she has been straightforward about acknowledging that she did not make a good decision early on, she acknowledged that was a mistake and they have taken the step of basically suggesting that all those e-mails that are related to our government service should be made public and the State Department is working on that process, for like 55,000 pages of material and that's the right step. Look there's no denying, this is a tough story but they're doing their best.”