In a game of political dodgeball Friday, Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz avoided saying whether Hillary Clinton was taking the FBI investigation into her private email server seriously.
For her first dodge, Wasserman Schultz said that Clinton was not the subject of the investigation into her own server.
“I think it’s important to underscore that Secretary Clinton isn’t even the target of this inquiry investigation or whatever “i” word you want to use,” Wasserman Schultz said on Fox News, weary of using the Clinton camp’s term “inquiry” to describe the FBI probe.
She began to recite her default answer about what really matters to voters, but was asked to explain how she knows Clinton is not the focus of the probe.
“Because I have repeatedly, I have repeatedly been told that. I mean, my understanding is that Secretary Clinton is not the target of this investigation or inquiry, whatever you want to call it,” Wasserman Schultz said. “I am only repeating what my understanding is.”
Without answering whether Clinton was taking the probe seriously, the chairwoman launched into her prepared answer about what matters to voters and the ills brought by Republicans.
Wasserman Schultz talked over Bill Hemmer for nearly ten seconds. Then, when she had read off the entirety of her answer, Hemmer asked her again whether Clinton was taking the probe seriously.
“When you release 55,000 pages of emails and demonstrate the transparencies that Secretary Clinton has throughout this “i” word, yes, most definitely,” Wasserman Schultz said.
But she couldn’t resist throwing in a bit of her prepared answer to finish things off.
“That’s still not what the voters are going be making this decision on when they decide who they are voting for for president,” she said.
