Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz admitted on Sunday that she isn’t sure of how many emails Hillary Clinton sent and received on the private email server she kept as secretary of state.
“Hillary Clinton has released 55,000 pages of emails [and] has provided the most transparency of any previous presidential candidate in terms of the conversations she had as secretary of state, as a public official,” Wasserman Schultz told Fox News’ Chris Wallace.
“It’s completely available for perusal by the press, and she was doing something and using private email in the same way as previous secretaries of state … other than the private server,” she added.
Wallace disputed the comparison.
Wasserman Schultz continued to defend Clinton, arguing that former Secretaries of State Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and John Kerry “all used private email to communicate with their staff.”
“Yeah, maybe a dozen, not 30,000,” Wallace said, referring to the number of emails Clinton exchanged with members of her staff at the State Department.
“I am not counting,” Wasserman Schultz admitted. “But over the course of her term she used private email and was allowed to use private email.”
Public opinion polls have repeatedly shown that Clinton’s image as an honest and trustworthy candidate has suffered during her second presidenital campaign due to ongoing questions about her private email account.
