Despite the legal questions raised by this week’s private meeting between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton, many in the press have said they accept that the impromptu 30-minute exchange was totally innocent, and won’t bias the probe into Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.

“I take [Lynch] & [Clinton] at their word that their convo in Phoenix didn’t touch on probe. But foolish to create such optics,” CNN contributor David Axelrod said on social media.