Obama: Alleged Clinton email quid pro quo ‘just not true’

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President Obama dismissed reports of a potential quid pro quo between the FBI and the State Department over the classification of an email during the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

“With respect to the State Department and the FBI, the reports … I think you’ve heard directly from both the State Department and the FBI that … the accounts that have been put out there are just not true,” Obama said Tuesday during a press conference with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.

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