Hillary Clinton: ‘I’m Sorry’ About The Private Email Server (VIDEO)

By Sara Jerde

September 8, 2015 6:03 p.m.

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In an interview with ABC News on Tuesday, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reportedly apologized for the first time over her use of a private email server while service as secretary of state.

On Monday, Clinton told the Associated Press that she wouldn’t apologize for using private email at the State Department because it had been allowed.

But that apparently changed in a brief clip of the interview released by ABC News in advance of the longer interview set to air on Tuesday evening. The clip didn’t show Muir’s question, but a description of the video from ABC said Clinton “acknowledged she made a mistake by using a personal e-mail account for government correspondence as Secretary of State.”

“That was a mistake. I’m sorry about that. I take responsibility, and I’m trying to be as transparent as I possibly can,” Clinton said in the clip.

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ealleniii says:

September 8, 2015

Not much to appologize for. Sure, it was a mistake, mostly because of the optics, but not a mistake with a real victim. Acknowledging it was a mistake is all she really needs to do.
lestatdelc says:

September 8, 2015

Wow. Hillary Clinton get’s more and more tone-deaf and lame.
ralph_vonholst says:

September 8, 2015

From this article.

“she wouldn’t apologize for using private email at the State Department because it had been allowed.”

"That was a mistake. I’m sorry about that. I take responsibility, and I’m trying to be as transparent as I possibly can,” Clinton said in the clip.

I’ve been following this issue and I don’t see any inconsistency between what she’s said here and earlier. If there is it’s the subtle parsing of the beating of a dead horse.

From the Andrea Mitchell Interview:

AM: Welcome, Secretary Clinton. Thank you so much for doing this interview.

You said recently that using your personal e-mail while you were Secretary of State was not the best choice, and that you take responsibility. Are you sorry?

HRC: Well, I certainly wish that I had made a different choice, and I know why the American people have questions about it.

And I want to make sure I answer those questions, starting with the fact that my personal e-mail use was fully above board. It was allowed by the State Department, as they have confirmed. But in retrospect, it certainly would have been better.

I take responsibility. I should’ve had two accounts - one for personal, one for work-related - and I’ve been as transparent as I could, asking all 55,000 pages be released to the public, turning over my server, looking for opportunities to testify before Congress.

and later in the interview

So at the end of the day, I am sorry that this has been confusing to people and has raised a lot of questions.

But there are answers to all these questions, and I will continue to provide those answers.

And those answers have been confirmed and affirmed by the State Department and by other government officials, and eventually I’ll get to testify in public, and I’m sure that it will be a long and grueling time there, but all the questions will be answered.

And I take responsibility and it wasn’t the best choice.

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chammy says:

September 8, 2015

There isn’t any. I am so tired of this story. Do you remember when the republicans almost shut the government down over 142 christmas cards the Clintons sent out. This is what they do and the media helped them then and it is so different now. Most people voting for Hillary don’t give a flying fuck and despite the bullshit polls, most people don;t. The only ones who do are the republicans and their whore friends, the media
ralph_vonholst says:

September 8, 2015

chammy:

This is what they do and the media helped them then and it is so different now.

Using a “putative” Biden candidacy to “dilute” her polling numbers appears to be the latest MSM ploy. I have no quarrel with either Bernie or Hillary. Many of Hillary’s and Bernie’s supporters are often way over the top and frankly, some are a little off-putting. I will happily vote for either one of them. But the MSM tries to play both sides against the middle and invent controversy and when supporters enable this behaviour, it is not in the interest of either candidate.