>> i am al hunt. >> with all due respect to birthday boy bill clinton, we send you eat hard, but we are afraid it might get white. wiped. birthday, bubba. jennifer paul marathon. first, the hillary hutsell. last night secretary clinton met the press in front of an american in a gymnasium. some of the questions were about her private e-mail server, and

the whole thing got a little contentious. class and retrospect, what was just be convenient has turned to be anything but convenient. aregret this has become such problem. what i did was legally permitted. is acting like this is the first time it has happened. it happens all of the time. clean?you wipe it >> like with a cloth or something? i don't know how it works at all. we turned over everything that was work related. personal we did not, i have no obligation to do so and i did not. >> nobody talks about it. cool. we talked to the clinton's communication director for a long time about it this afternoon. we will show you the conversation solely. question is whether

hillary helps or hurts her cause politically with performances like that. al: if this is an effort to low people into not thinking she is an unbeatable frontrunner so they won't get overconfident, she is succeeding. this is awful. i do not know what the ever savvy jennifer paul mary is went this just does not work whatever she thinks the merits are. to be sarcastic, to say everybody does it, there is three-day c or. the people who really captures their attention, fbi, and she has to cap -- has two sets up to that. julie: i have to say she is doing her cause more harm than i think she is doing way more harm than good if she is going to answer the question that way, evasive and condescending. i think she has to be better repaired, emotionally prepared

to do better in the environment if she is going to take questions on these things, because it is setting her back and rousing the press. you are in new hampshire. so are a lot of new -- political candidates. today at a summit convened by michael brown, a handful of the candidates spoke. jeb bush, carly fiorina, chris christie. we noticed a couple of themes that emerged. >> if people do not like common core, make sure the standard are higher than before. lex common core may have turned out to a set of anders, or what it has turned into is a program that is overly influenced by companies that have something to gain. >> we're in federal court right now suing arne duncan. >> it is teachers unions. barriersthe unions are

to sorting out who are the exceptional teachers and how they report them versus the one or two in each school doing a poor job. >> if i working in america i would abolish all teachers lounges where they sit together and worry about how well is us. sayingve no problem political -- teacher political unions deserve a punch in the face because that is what they do with us. moves effective are those do you think politically for these republican candidates, and how big of an issue will it be in the republican nomination fight? bashing unions has never been a problem in the republican primary. jeb bush and john kasich did that very well today. i did not see some of the others . i think pension people in the face may not go over quite as well.

people care about it a lot, but john kasich came out of that. oh whole summit on education. the top three questions rightation, donald trump, now it is a secondary issue. there is so much unity, there is just a few people could be a vulnerability. jeb bush thing i don't even know what, gore is. think --e is k-6 who i john kasich even though you saw him bashing the teachers, he looks pretty good the one guy out there conning the -- the cost for common core. get a lot of credit for that. big day in new hampshire. donald trump during a town hall this evening 20 miles away from jeb bush townhall in the dairy area. you spent time with john kasich who is moving up granite state polls. my question is whether you think that is because he is actually

catching fire with voters were because the money they have spent on tv? al: the money opened the door. due toe and cold is money, but now he is a time to present himself and does pretty well. he then went on to say it is outrageous they pay football coaches 4 million per year and pay teachers peanuts. it did very well at an else club meeting in salem today. i think there is a lot of potential here. you 7-1 odds he outgrows jet tonight. i agree. palmerinnifer explaining hillary clinton's answers to last night's press conference. trust me, this stuff. sick around and we will be right back. ♪ -- stick around.

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john: earlier today we work treated to a visit from jennifer palmeri, hillary clinton pr advisor. we started by asking how she thought her ball state at the press conference last night. speaking at a communication professor as a whole, how do you think your boss did last night? stood there and answered all of the questions from the press, answered the many follow-ups. this is a very confusing issue. have questions. wiping the server is something most americans don't understand, including hillary clinton. were youget the point

have answered all the questions you need to do. and this month we want her to cycle through and take a any questions at possible. we want to clear up as much as this understanding as possible. john: her tone seemed dismissive at times. her body language was not great at times. >> i think she was in great humor. she was laughing. most people found that amusing. -- in thisding there case sending their taking all these questions. i think she shows good humor. we need to see authentic hillary. she gets a little frustrated and you get to see that. the line that she seemed to be propagating last night or did propagate is she kept any --

everything on a private server we would be going through the same thing. clearly that is not quite right. it seems it was one of the things many people were concerned about, the notion there might be classified material, whether it was classified at the time or classified now. let's just call it sensitive material. that might raise security issues. differenty it is more than if she had done what the -- every other candidate has done. >> other cabinet secretaries uses personal e-mail as did at least one of her predecessors. thisoint she was making is is all in an unclassified e-mail system. .gov at she had a state count the same thing would have happened, the possibility of other department -- it is not

the state department, her department that think this needs to be classified. other departments think that. she did not look at it online, a hard copy in person. it is also true the state department e-mail system was half by the russians. it is not -- that is a serious concern. it is not as if that does not happen at the state. it did. that would elevate the concern that if the state department e-mail could be hacked, hers could be just as easily. >> not necessarily. john: no one would know in the government. >> if that is your concern, it is certainly worth noting that state was hacked. john: she made a big point she

did not send or receive an e-mail that was not classified. that is a different posture than earlier in the year. now she talks about markings. >> think about the word classified. classified means that someone has looked at it and made the decision and needs to be classified in a certain manner. classified by definition means it is marked. the word classified, that is what it means, it is marked. cockedeneral the case he -- talked about this issue and talked about the fact that it is the responsibility of government issues. mcca you are responsible for making sure you are not disseminating classified material. >> certainly you have obligations to make sure you are that you are handling classified materials and any kind of information sensitively. john: the rules that the onus on

the government official. markeduestion of things or not marked. >> that is. click we have seen government officials convicted of crimes for handling classified material that was not marked classified. it seems this is an interesting she is making. but not germane to the case. germane to they case because it has to be classified in order for it to be in violation of sending it. that theou gets pretty academic at some point even, but in terms of how you handle the information, it is either classified at the time or it is not.

said the state department none of this is classified. now other departments are deciding for their own reasons, for their own equities they want to classify something that does not have anything to do with state. that is a very different process. that is why when she said it doesn't have anything to do with me, that is because it is other departments and their concern. john: is the department worried there is information that could later become classified? she is aware of that process when she was secretary of state? if she was aware something could be classified later in time -- law to havet the classified materials in an unauthorized location. that is the case. this would be an argument for keeping all of your stuff and an authorized location. there was sensitive

material, it may not be classified today but classified in the future, it would be incumbent upon you not to take any materials -- >> that would suggest you cannot be gore everbright -- john: i am not suggesting that at all. >> people need to be able to work, to be -- to communicate. she had thousands and thousands of e-mails and the state department look through all of them. look through not all of them. they did not look through the 30,000 that she decided to delete. john: we are not discussing governor bush. he was not secretary of state. there is no e-mail jeb bush ever handle that had anything to do with national security. >> the have national guard. john: he was a question she was asked and when the answer, whether or not she wiped the server.

did she or did she not direct someone to do more than delete the e-mail but white, scribes go deeper? >> i think you are getting -- when you are getting to the level of what happened on the server -- delete an e-mail, i hit delete. that is the most i do. did she ask someone to do more than that or not. g? >> no.she had lawyers to look at all the e-mails to decide what was personal and professional. she asked them to delete the personal e-mails. john: you are saying she did not direct anyone to merely delete the e-mail? quite they had to go through it and delete the e-mail.

is if i havestion personal questions about yoga practice or my daughter's wedding, i would hit the delete button. for lawyers to say the e-mail was wiped, and that is what the e-mail will look at. to be deleted. beyond that i don't know. it is like everyone is an expert on inflating football and other experts on wiping servers. i don't know how that all works. she certainly owns the fact that she made a decision to have them look at and they here is what we what weeep, here is should turn over to the state department, here is what is personal, and clear is what i don't want to keep. i totally understand you don't know the details of how the servers are's ground and i don't know the details, but there is a difference if i maintain a personal server, there is a difference between

saying let's delete the e-mails and ordering a computer professional to make sure there is no trace of the e-mails on the server. >> all i know is we said delete them. beyond that i don't know. john: you do not know what she directed to be done with the e-mails? >> i know that she said look for what is thend see state department and what is personal. she decided she did not want to keep the e-mails that were personal. the department of justice now has a server so they can see. isre -- their concern is there anything on their? there is sensitive information that they want to make sure is secure. now they have it and are able to see. john: war not. they may not be able to see anything. >> that is how come they want.

john: they will not that -- know that at all. all they will no issue may or may not have deleted the e-mail. >> that is not what they're concerned with. that is not what the department of justice is concerned about. they are concerned to make sure the information is secure. if they find a server has been for release grounds, there will have no idea whether they were classified e-mails on the server. >> they want to make sure if her e-mail, her lawyer has an on a thumb drive, they wanted to have that secure. server why they want the , they wanted the server to look at it to see if there are any e-mails on it because they want to make sure that e-mail server is secure. there is more.

the rest of the conversation with jennifer paul mary after this. ♪

john: and now, the exciting conclusion of the short film. let me ask you the question of platte river systems, a company -- >> i will probably not be able to. story aboutwas a the denver daily mail. i am curious as to what you know about how they came to be retained. >> i don't. john: no idea whether they were chosen, that it, any idea about who the company was gekko? >> i don't. john: she made the point that no one is paying attention to this but elites basically. no one asks about it. >> she said no one asked her about it. belief,ur belief or her

either one, that actual voters we't care about this at all? do think people have questions, and that is part of the reason we're going through a relative andessive education process her talking to voters through the press. i think people see a lot of coverage of it. .t is very confusing we want to did mystify it for people. also happens the her answering questions from the press. it evolves into more complicated minutia. it is true people don't raise it with her. i think maybe people have speculated they are not comfortable with her. about other her issues. they talk about issues that affect them. john: let me go back to of the question that normal people have . a lot of reporters had it, to. some reporters.

she -- this is the core issue, why -- most people do not take seriously the notion that convenience was the reason she did this. most people think it was an unusual thing to do, to have it homebrewed server in her house. there have been past secretaries of state to have used personal e-mail addresses. she had a server in her house. she has a server in her house -->> because her husband is a former president. john: it is still unprecedented. why? i have been in politics where people think the answer is a lot more complicated than it really is. she has answered this many times. she did have her own e-mail account. was just more convenient. she kept it like that. that is the thing, she did not

really think it through. she has said had she, she would have done it differently. obviously it has turned into a distraction and has caused a great deal of consternation. .he would do it differently she regrets that it happens. john: on a scale of one to 10, how much fun are you having at your job yo? >> 8. thank you for going through this with me. our sincere thanks to jennifer palmeri. when we come back, sir charles barkley. ♪ ♪

john: breaking news, major props to my boy who recorded an actual poll in north carolina has reported 9% and a general matchup that includes hillary clinton and donald trump. the dream is alive.

sir charles barkley says he likes john kasich. 16th. my thanks to al hunt in new hampshire. until we see him again tomorrow, sayonara. ♪ ♪

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