Hillary aides says 2016 bid hurt by email controversy
AP, Washington :
Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to more fully address questions about her use of a private email server as secretary of state starting this month, part of an acknowledgment by her campaign that her presidential bid has been hurt by the heavy focus on the controversy over the summer.
“We’ve had some headwinds particularly around the email question,” said Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. “There’s been a lot of noise that’s made it more difficult to break through.”
On Friday, Clinton will sit down for an interview with MSNBC – the third national television interview of her four-month presidential campaign.
The appearance will be the first in a series of media appearances that campaign staff say Clinton will participate in this fall, before her Oct. 22 public testimony to a congressional committee investigating the deadly 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. This week, members of the House panel are questioning Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s former chief of staff, and Jake Sullivan, another former top aide who now works on Clinton’s presidential campaign, behind closed doors.
Clinton aides see the hearing as an opportunity to address questions about her email set-up, arguing that it gives the former New York senator a congressional platform to shame her Republican critics for what they view as a little more than a political witch-hunt.
Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to more fully address questions about her use of a private email server as secretary of state starting this month, part of an acknowledgment by her campaign that her presidential bid has been hurt by the heavy focus on the controversy over the summer.
“We’ve had some headwinds particularly around the email question,” said Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. “There’s been a lot of noise that’s made it more difficult to break through.”
On Friday, Clinton will sit down for an interview with MSNBC – the third national television interview of her four-month presidential campaign.
The appearance will be the first in a series of media appearances that campaign staff say Clinton will participate in this fall, before her Oct. 22 public testimony to a congressional committee investigating the deadly 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. This week, members of the House panel are questioning Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s former chief of staff, and Jake Sullivan, another former top aide who now works on Clinton’s presidential campaign, behind closed doors.
Clinton aides see the hearing as an opportunity to address questions about her email set-up, arguing that it gives the former New York senator a congressional platform to shame her Republican critics for what they view as a little more than a political witch-hunt.
