Granholm on Hillary E-mail Scandal: She Didn’t Want Tech ‘Confusing Her Life’

CUOMO: “That has been the suggestion by Clinton’s camp. It’s also what Secretary Powell is now saying. General Powell is saying coming forward, saying, “No, no, don’t tell me I was messing around with classified information.” This was after the fact. So as an advocate for Clinton, make the case to the American voter that she can be trusted, even though the allegation is the private server was a manifestation of Clinton paranoia and the desire to control her activities outside the scrutinizing eye of the public or the government.”
GRANHOLM: “I think as she said, it was not the best case — choice to make, but it was purely a choice of not wanting to have multiple devices. It wasn’t — it wasn’t something that was some kind of back- room plot. It was really just somebody who didn’t want technology to be confusing her life. She wanted it on one device. She wanted it simple. And now she wants these e-mails released. And as we’ve seen with the [indecipherable] of e-mails —“
CUOMO: “The ones she did not delete.”
GRANHOLM: “There is no — Chris, the ones she did not delete? Who is saying she deleted e-mails?”
CUOMO: “She deleted a whole bunch of them. That fuels a lot of speculation. Off the server. Off the server. Thirty thousand e- mails that weren’t —“
GRANHOLM: “Nobody has said that. There were — she turned over 55,000 e-mails that were relative to work. She didn’t turn over the ones that were personal. Like no other — I mean, every state employee and federal employee has the choice of making the decision about personal e-mail and which — whether they use their personal e-mail or whether they use their government e-mail. She turned over all of her government e-mails. And now the FBI is looking at it. Bottom line is, Chris, this is not the issue.”