This might be the most embarrassingly paltry defense of Hillary Clinton yet.
Howard Dean, who served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009, claimed on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Wednesday that it is Hillary Clinton’s “prerogative” — her right — not to show the media the emails from her personal system.
“It is true that the media really wants to see everything and they have this fundamental belief they should see everything,” said Dean of the ongoing email controversy. “And I think Hillary has decided they probably shouldn’t and I think that’s her prerogative.”
New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters immediatedly pushed back at the former DNC chairman, pointing out that Hillary may have “violated the law” and because her server has been wiped clean, we have no way of knowing if she did.
“It’s her prerogative until she’s violated the law,” Peters exclaimed. “That’s the issue here, Howard, is the extent to which she and her people have gone to hide things in violation of State Department protocol and the law, and that is not her prerogative.”
“At no time did she violate the law — at no time. And that’s very clear,” Dean claimed.
Indeed, as clear and clean as a scrubbed server.
Watch the MSNBC segment below, with the choice conversation coming at about 10:00.
