9-8-15
- FULL INTERVIEW ABC - Hillary Clinton Apologizes for Private Email
Chokes Up During ABC News Interview - As we learned in ABC News’ brief
preview of David Muir’s sit-down interview with Hillary Clinton, the
Democratic frontrunner admitted, for the first time, that using a
private email server was a “mistake,” saying, “I’m sorry.” Clinton
stressed again that the decision to use a personal email address and
server was “allowed” by the State Department, but she still believes it
was a “mistake” to do so. “What I had done was allowed,” she said. “It
was above board, but in retrospect, certainly, as I look back at it now,
even though it was allowed, I should have used two accounts, one for
personal, one for work-related emails. That was a mistake. I’m sorry
about that. I take responsibility.”
Confronted by a New York
Times report that found two of her emails were classified at the time
that they were sent or received, Clinton pushed back on that assessment.
“The State Department disputes that,” she said. “I understand why
different agencies have different views, and I respect that. It does not
change the fact that I did not send or receive any information that was
marked classified at the time.”
Later in the interview, Muir
pressed Clinton to say whether she believes Vice President Joe Biden
would make a good president, should he get into the 2016 race. At first,
Clinton would only say that she “likes” Biden, but then admitted that
he “could be a good president.”
Finally, Muir asked Clinton if, in her “most private of moments,” she ever asks herself, “Why am I doing this again?”
“Yes,
of course. because it really is hard,” Clinton replied. She even choked
up a bit as she recalled mother’s “terrible childhood.” She said, “I
don’t want to just fight for me. I mean, I can have a perfectly fine
life not being president. I want to fight for all the people like my
mother who need somebody in their corner, and they need a leader who
cares about them again.”
Perhaps this is the next step in Clinton’s grand plan to “show more humor and heart” in her campaign.
