al: i am al hunt. john with all due respect to : birthday boy bill clinton, we e-card, but we are afraid it might get wiped. happy birthday, bubba. jog, the first, the hillary hustle. last night secretary clinton met the press in front of an gymnasium. some of the questions were about

her private e-mail server, and the whole thing got a little contentious. hillary clinton: in retrospect what was just be convenient has , turned to be anything but convenient. i regret this has become such a problem. what i did was legally permitted. everybody is acting like this is the first time it has happened. it happens all of the time. >> did you wipe it clean? hillary clinton like with a : cloth or something? i don't know how it works at all. i know you want to make a point. i can just repeat what i said. 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. john: ok, cool. we talked to the clinton's communication director for a long time about it this afternoon. we will show you the conversation shortly. for now, my question is whether hillary helps or hurts her cause politically with performances like that.

al: if this is an effort to low ull 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 is went to the way, but this just does not work whatever she thinks the merits are. to be sarcastic, to say everybody does it, there is no excuse. the people who really captures their attention, fbi, and she has two sets up to that. john: 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. even more than already is. albert, you are in new hampshire. so are a lot of political candidates. today at a summit convened by michael brown, a handful of the candidates spoke. jeb bush, carly fiorina, chris christie. john kasich, scott walker. we noticed a couple of themes that emerged. >> if people do not like common core, make sure the standard are higher than before. >> common core may have turned out to be a set of standards. but 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. he violated federal law and the 10th amendment to the constitution. >> it is teachers unions. but a lotreat ones, of barriers 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. king in america i would abolish all teachers lounges where they sit together and worry about how well is us. >> i have no problem saying political unions deserve a punch in the face because that is what they do with us. john: how effective are those moves do you think politically for these republican candidates, and how big of an issue will it be in the republican nomination fight? al: bashing unions has never been a problem in the republican primary. you have to be careful and distinguish the unions and features. jeb bush and john kasich did that very well today. i did not see some of the others. i think punching people in the face may not go over quite as well. let me say what is interesting about education as an issue. people care about it a lot, but john kasich came out of that.

the whole summit on education. the top three questions immigration, donald trump, right now it is a secondary issue. john: there is so much unity, about this in the republican party, there is just a few people for whom this could be a vulnerability. the jeb bush thing i don't even know what common core is. john kasich even though you saw him bashing the teachers, he looks pretty good the one guy suggesting 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. the rise in the polls is due to money, but now he is a time to present himself and does pretty well. ofer he had that lounge teachers, 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 john kasich has a lot of potential here. i will lay you 7-1 odds he outgrows jeb bush tonight. john i agree. : jennifer palmeri explaining hillary clinton's answers to last night's press conference. trust me, this stuff. it is good. stick around. we will be right back.

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john: earlier today we were treated to a visit from jennifer palmeri, hillary clinton's pr advisor. like a lot of people in nevada, we had questions about the e-mail server. we started by asking how she thought her boss did last night. speaking at a communication professor as a whole, how do you think your boss did last night? >> she stood there and answered all of the questions from the press, answered the many follow-ups. this is a very confusing issue. we think people have questions. she is happy to address those. when we get to the point where he is asking four times about wiping the server -- something most americans don't understand, including hillary clinton. then you get the point were you have answered all the questions you need to do. we are particularly in this

month we want her to cycle , through and take a any s many 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. jennifer i think she was in : great humor. she was laughing. i think wiping the server with a cloth. most people found that amusing. she is standing there -- in this case 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. john: let me ask serious questions. the line that she seemed to be propagating last night, if she

kept 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. right? that is why it is more different than if she had done what the -- every other candidate has done. jennifer: other cabinet secretaries uses personal e-mail as did at least one of her predecessors. the point she was making is this is all in an unclassified e-mail system. whether she had a state.gov at account 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. but it is also, i will say she did not look at it online, a hard copy in person. it is also true the state department e-mail system was hacked by the russians. if that is a serious concern. it is not as if that does not happen at the state. it did. john: that would elevate the concern that if the state department e-mail could be hacked, hers could be just as easily. no? jennifer not necessarily. : john: no one would know in the government. we know the state department e-mail was hacked. jennifer: 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 in itself is a different posture than earlier in the year. now she talks about markings. as if they are important. jennifer: 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. so classified information by definition means it is marked. the word classified, that is what it means, it is marked. john: the former attorney ed aboutwrote an op- this issue and talked about the fact that it is the responsibility of government issues. you are responsible for making sure you are not disseminating classified material. or holding it in a non-secure place. jennifer: certainly you have obligations to make sure you are not -- that you are handling classified materials and any kind of information sensitively. john: the rules that the onus on the government official. right? it is not a question of things

marked or not marked. jennifer: >> that is. john: we have seen government officials, like general betray petreus, convicted of crimes for handling classified material that was not marked classified. it seems this is an interesting argument she is making. but not germane to the case. jennifer it is exactly germane : to the case because it has to be classified in order for it to be in violation of sending it. i grant you that the conversation 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. but also, the state department

said none of this is classified. now other departments are deciding for their own reasons, not the state department for , their own equities they want to classify something that does not have anything to do with state. that is a very different process. and 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 she is aware of that process when she was secretary of state? jennifer: i do not understand the question. john: if she was aware something could be classified later in time -- it is against the law to have classified materials in an unauthorized location. that is the case. so if you know -- this would be an argument for keeping all of your stuff and an authorized location. if you knew 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 -- jennifer: >> that would suggest you cannot speak or write. john: i am not suggesting that at all. jennifer people need to be able : to work. they need to be able to communicate. again, she had thousands and thousands of e-mails and the state department look through all of them. john: they do not look through all of them. they did not look through the 30,000 that she decided to delete. jennifer: neither have we seen the e-mails governor bush sent. john: we are not discussing governor bush. he was not secretary of state. there is no e-mail jeb bush ever handled that had anything to do with national security. jennifer: he had the national guard. john: there 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? jennifer i think you are getting : -- when you are getting to the level of what happened on the server? john: when i delete an e-mail, i hit delete. that is the most i do. did she ask someone to do more than that or not? jennifer no. : she had lawyers to look at all the e-mails to decide what was personal and professional. and she decided to not retain the personal one. and they were deleted. any technical questions about servers -- john: you are saying she did not direct anyone to merely delete the e-mail? they had to go through it and delete the e-mail. john: the question is if i have personal questions about yoga

practice or my daughter's wedding, i would hit the delete button. her lawyers are now saying the e-mail was wiped, and that is what the e-mail will look at. jennifer 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 say here is what we should keep, here is what we should turn over to the state department, here is what is personal, and clear is what i don't want to keep. john: i totally understand you don't know the details of how servers are scrubbed. but there's 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. jennifer: 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? the specific direction she gave. jennifer: i know that she said look for my e-mails and see what is the state department and what is personal. she decided she did not want to keep the e-mails that were personal. that is what we know. beyond that, here is the thing, the department of justice now has a server so they can see. their concern is is there anything on there? there is sensitive information that they want to make sure is secure. now they have it and are able to see. john: or not. they may not be able to see anything. is what theyt

want. john: they will not know that at all. all they will no issue may or may not have deleted the e-mail. jennifer 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. john: if they find a server has been thoroughly scrubbed, they will have no idea whether they were classified e-mails on the server. jennifer they want to make sure : if her e-mail, her lawyer has it on a thumb drive, they wanted to have that secure. that is why they want the server, 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. john: but wait, there is more. the rest of the conversation with jennifer after this. ♪

john: and now, the exciting conclusion of the short film. bloomberg politics interviews jennifer paul mar. let me ask you the question of platte river systems, a company -- jennifer: i will probably not be able to. john: there was a story about the "denver daily mail." i am curious as to what you know about how they came to be retained? jennifer: no idea. i don't. john: no idea whether they were chosen, that is, any idea about who the company was? jennifer: i don't. john: she made the point that no one is paying attention to this but elites basically. no one asks about it. jennifer she said no one asked : her about it. is it your belief or her belief, either one, that actual voters don't care about this at all? we

jennifer: we do think people have questions, and that is part of the reason we're going through a relative aggressive education process and her talking to voters through the press. answering the questions. i think people see a lot of coverage of it. it is very confusing. we want to demystify it for people. it also happens that 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. but they talk to her about other issues. they talk about issues that affect them. john: let me go back to of the the question that normal people have. a lot of reporters had it, to. oo.

-- this is the core issue. why -- most people do not take seriously the notion that convenience was the reason she did this. and most people think it was an unusual thing to do, to have it homebrewed server in her house. .ennifer, there is no one 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? jennifer: 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. others have done it before. it 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 big distraction and has caused a great deal of consternation. and, you know she would do it , differently. she regrets that it happens. john: i know you love these questions. on a scale of one to 10, how much fun are you having at your job? jennifer 8. :john: a great degree of satisfaction. 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 election matchup that includes hillary clinton and donald trump. the dream is alive. also, sir charles barkley says he likes john kasich.

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