journalists at the state department will ask marie harf about the emails. we'll monitor the details. china, is this business as usual? did hillary cross the line in these emails? what was being put in the email not on her official server? >> i think what we're glossing over is the fact there is nothing that deserves any sort of repudiation that has been revealed in any of these emails. i believe very strongly that because of hillary clinton's role, she is overanalyzed, overcriticized reserved overscrutinized over every detail. >> isn't that kind of the problem? isn't that the problem she has control of these servers. she chooses what emails will be released. no really that shocking that emails being released first are not that damning? >> i think it would have been a problem if she had not released emails. i think she is making a very clear effort, clear and concerted effort to be transparent in her dealings. if she for example withheld the emails, then it would be a bigger deal. she use -- >> she did withhold emails. >> she had withheld emails. that was po

we're back with marie harf.have this capability based on everything you're hearing? we don't think they do. we don't. >> you think they're making this stuff up? >> i think they say a lot of things publicly to try and make people think they have more capabilities than they do. but we haven't seen anything to indicate they do. >> ban ki-moon, the u.n. secretary-general, was supposed to be in north korea in the coming days but that trip was canceled. do you know why? >> we've seen kim jong-un do this with a number of senior leaders lately. he's rejected several meetings. he's isolating himself even further. >> at the same time some 30 women, including 30 american women, are now in pyongyang and getting ready in the coming days to do this peace march from north korea to south korea along the demilitarized zone saying they have permission from both the north korean government and the south korean government. did you give them your encouragement to go on this mission when the american women on this trip left? >> we ce

the state department many marie harf. >> could negatively impact foreign relations. >> can you tell us what it was upgraded to? >> it was upgraded to secret. >> which is the lowest of the -- >> there is confidential which is lower. >> more generally, there are a lot of other redactions. >> correct. we tried to set expectations there would be. >> do you have -- are you able to tell us what the majority of those redactions were for? what was the reason? >> i don't have a breakdown. next to each redaction there is a code for the exemption that is cited. you can take a look at all those codes. i don't know them all by heart. i haven't done a numerical breakdown how many apply where. as i noted, these were provided with very few redactions to the committee. this one e-mail we referenced that has been upgraded was provided unredacted and unclassified. because there are different standards for public release under foya. >> the committee has the unredacted versions? >> correct. >> was there stuff sent unredacted? >> there were some redactions but it was limited. this is an agreement we made to

state department spokeswoman marie harf summed up the e-mails this way: >> they do not change our understanding of the what happened before, during, or after the attack. >> thank you all! i'll be back! >> reporter: republicans argued there's a reason for that. in a statement, benghazi committee chairman trey gowdy noted clinton's private e-mail account was exclusively reviewed and releaseed by her own lawyers so there's no way to know if the self-selected public record is complete. traveling in new hampshire clinton responded. >> it is the fact that we have released all of them that have any government relationship whatsoever. >> reporter: clinton has always said she did not send or receive classified material on her private account. today, scott though, before the e-mails were released, the f.b.i. determined that two sentences in one of the e-mails were not considered classified material at the time they were sent but should be considered classified today. >> pelley: nancy cordes on capitol hill for us. nancy, thank you. today, isis sealed off the ancient syrian city of palmyra. thousands fled

. ♪ mattress discounters ♪ >>> this is the state department briefing happening right now, marie harfhillary clinton e-mails a short time ago. let's listen in. >> i'm not going to speak specifically as why they requested this, but prior to the public release, i'll underline a few so people have a general sense how the process works. it's possible that the degree of sensitivity and certain information coffee vofled over time due to changing world events or national security interest and details of our cooperation with other countries would be upgraded if the public disclosure could negativively impact u.s. foreign relations and a candid exchange of views if publicly released could have a negative impact on foreign relations. those are general, i'm not referring specifically to this sentence and a half that was upgraded today but there are a variety of reasons in the regular process that this can happen. >> that all refers to the upgraded from unclassified to some form of classification some level of classification. candid exchanges between officials? >> if it could impact -- if there's

let's turn to john kerry who established his credentials by promoting marie harf.r in the state department do you think she's deserving, andy? >> you have to ask yourself, what does john kerry see in her that nobody else does? i try not to bash communication people, i used to be one of them. you give your input and the policy is decided and you have to pretend that you think it's a good policy even if you think it's stupid, and ask you yourself why in the world i want this job. the thing is she's not particularly good at that. lou: you're being very kind. >> i'm trying i feel bad for her i think a lot of it is not her fault. the people setting the policy that are at fault. >> i can't fault the woman she says a lot without saying anything, and i admire that in a woman, but i do wonder if this promotion is really a promotion or just like a lateral move. lou: ah. a little push out door. s'mores speak of a war on women michelle obama's latest initiative a war on s'mores, that's a bigtime target? >> i love s'mores very much but in moderation. lou: of course. >> that's w

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meanwhile, tom, marie harf is out right now. she is not confirming these emails or denying them. there she is right there. "new york times" just burying hillary clinton again. they're like her worst enemy right now. tom? >> it was, far as "the times" is going after here is what is such a challenge. i was watching a news program on another network -- melissa: why? >> there was, they ran a clip of hillary clinton in, when she answered questions the other day in iowa. although showed was about a 10 second clip of her saying, of course i want those emails released. so for people that are just, casual observer of the passing news they will think, what a great woman. she wants emails released. melissa: brian, do you think anybody watches her and thinks that? >> i'm not sure. democrat support for her is still rock solid. this is unbeliveable. this is the moment they have to pick the horse they will get behind for next year-and-a-half. as much as this seems to be one of the worst launches of any campaign that i can remember that is a front running campaign, not joe biden came out with st

marie harf? >> i don't pass out grades okay?okay. >> but i would say this, if you are the story, okay if you're name is in the headline more than once a year then you are doing something wrong. melissa: uh-oh. >> okay? so you are there to be conduit the spokesperson for someone else. and, i think that in some ways she has hurt the state department's cause by really trying to make it a little bit more about her. maybe that wasn't her intention but that was the result. so i think that, they would have been better served by bringing in some of those experts. and i also think just having a little bit of humility at the podium is actually very effective. that is not in abundance at state department. melissa: that is possibly been lacking. jen psaki? >> i like jen psaki a lot. she comes on fox. i have known her for a while. i sent her flowers when she got the job at state department and she never responded. melissa: really? >> i wonder if maybe the secret service never went through or something. i wish she would have responded because

. >> with memories of the attack on the uss coal in 2000 state department spokesman marie harf has pointedtims to an online registration system. the department of defense has not carried out an operation. sea ports are closed. those americans who are trapped are mostly muslims. three muslim groups in the u.s. have launched a website called stuck in yemen dot com and filed a lawsuit in a u.s. federal court accusing the state department and dod of discrimination. the state department has told americans to e-mail an organization and copy the state department at that following addresses. the americans that are stuck have expressed distappointment. in the movies the u.s. doesn't leave anybody behind. on the other hand the state department began warning americans to leave when they closed the embassy on february 11th. >> jennifer griffin reporting live. >>> u.s. led air strikevise reportedly killed 52 civilians in syria. britain based group claiming seven have been killed. kobani had been under siege for isis for month earlier this year the central command is looking into the claim of those civi

marie harf is acting spokeswoman for the state department, soon going to be taking a position as senioriser to secretary of state john kerry. and marie joins us now. congratulations on moving on to the new post. we have a number of topics that we want to cover with you while are you still acting spokeswoman for state. so let me read you what the "washington post" and david ignatius wrote about the emails which i'm sure you had a chance to read. he said the messages passed to clinton from her friend sidney blumenthal don't appear scandalous, but, "you can't help but think they were passing around emails when they should have been framing a better plan to deal with libya's disintrograitgration -- disintegration." a dig on clinton and the immigration policy. how does the state department respond? >> i would say a few things. and thank you at the top for the congratulations. first, this is just one very small window into hillary clinton's time at the state department. last week, as you referenced, we released about 900 page of emails that had already been provided to the select committee on

remember when the state department whats with her name marie harf i said something she was babbling.t could have been a guy or gal. i don't do that. she looks out of her depth. you are a sexist. you can't. it's insane. you know what it does? it makes intelligent people walk away from the argument. they will not embrace the argument ever even if you have a real point. >> i think sexism exists and definitely exists in the senate. what is interesting is elizabeth warren hasn't stepped up. the reality here is elizabeth warren has a close relationship with president obama. president obama calls joe biden joe. he calls elizabeth warren elizabeth. he calls hillary hillary. he uses first names in close relationships. >> this is fascinating because in the talking points memo you bring up the best point this is finally tactics used on other democrats. >> shocking. >> it is. think about how he did this deal. is he treating democrats the way he treated republicans with he obamacare. >> he does. >> he is keeping him in the dark. is he not giving him a seat at the table. and now they are getting a

that left state department spokesperson marie harf today to deny it's a snub of mr., triggered by saudi concerns over the president's pursuit of a nuclear deal with iran. >> king salman made this decision given what's going on in yemen. he's sending the crown prince and the deputy crown prince who are fully empowered. they run intel, they run defense, they run a lot of the areas that we're actually going to be talking about in detail at camp david. so we believe that the right mix of people will be there. >> warner: right mix or not, the meetings begin wednesday at the white house before moving to camp david. >> ifill: and margaret joins me now. >> ifill: margaret we saw at the state department and also the white house in the briefing room today an aggressive pushback this notion was a snub the last-minute decision not to come on the part of the saudi king. what really happened? >> when this was laid on by the white house last month right after coming up with this political framework for an iranian nuclear deal the hope was with the right assurances the gulf countrie

thought because it was because she was so stellar at the podium they were going to be promo promoting marie harf. she's the senior advisor to secretary of state john kerry. when i first saw this, i thought this is how you get promoted inside of government. they take you away from the area where you might not have been doing a good job. they move you up. >> her focus is going to be with the iranians negotiating the final work of the deal so it will go from a framework to a final deal. >> leading on the iranian communications strategy. that was the tone set for her. let's take a look at her greatest hits in case you forgot. >> we need to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups. whether it's lack of opportunity for jobs, what makes these 17-year-old kids pick up an ak-47 instead of trying to start a business. i didn't hear a lot of alternatives i heard big words and thought in that piece. there's a place for that. i don't understand about what's saying i'm not going to confirm every meeting. >> no meetings have been canceled but you can say that it took place. so that means

the person in charge of negotiation, marie harf, very nice, i love her glasses.said in a statement we did not want to talk about that. i think we are giving them $710 million a month. that is serious money no matter how rich you are. marie said -- because the question was asked, why don't you make that part of the nuclear negotiation? we don't want to complicate the nuclear negotiation. excuse me? one thing has nothing to do with the other. we don't want to complicate the nuclear negotiation. do you believe that? so we are dealing with babies. i call our president the five to one president. we got bergdahl, they get five killers that want to kill us all. they are all back on the battlefield, by the way. we got this piece of garbage named bergdahl. [applause] donald trump: who years ago we would have shot for treason. now they are saying, he doesn't feel good, he had a hard life. when i saw his father standing with obama, i said whoa! i love the guys of "duck dynasty." they stay at my luxury hotels. but this did not look like "duck dynasty." [applause] so even tho

. >> state department spokesman marie harf pointed those americans trapped in yemen to an online registrationut the state department has not asked the department of defense to carry out an ordered evacuation. airports remain bombed out and seaports closed. those americans who are trapped are muslim many visiting family members in yemen. three muslim groups in the u.s. have launched a website called stuck inyemen.com and filed a lawsuit in u.s. court accusing the state department and d.o.d. of discrimination. told americans in yemen to e-mail the international organization for migration based in geneva and copy the state department at the following addresses. yemen evacuation requests at iom.int, yemenemergencyusc@state.gov. the americans who are stuck have expressed disappointment with their government. in the movies the u.s. doesn't leave anyone behind one of them remarked to a "the wall street journal" reporter that the state department began warning americans to leave when they closed the embassy on february 11th. >> interesting. thank you for joining us jennifer. we appreciate it. >>> we'

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. >>> back with state department deputy spokeswoman marie harf. in the fight against isis. a pentagon spokesman saying there's no inrace iraqi forces have entered ramadi despite their military offensive to drive these isis terrorists out of anbar province. let's talk about what's going on. i was surprised to hear your boss secretary kerry say after ramadi fell to these isis terrorists it is possible to see the kind of attack we have in ramadi but i am absolutely confident in the days ahead, that will be reversed. where does he get that optimism? >> i think what we've seen over the past 24 hours is iraqi troops regrouping on the outskirts and counterattacking isil around ramadi. you're right, they're not in raudmy deyet put this is how you start a counterattack. we're helping them do that. the coalition is supporting with air power, air strikes in anbar to help them on this counterattack. it could take some days that is true. >> mostly this offensive, it was launched by the iraqi iranian-backed shiite militia, not the regular army. they gave ate co

. >> that was marie harf at the state department saying the u.s. can defeat and destroy isis. the problems in the middle east and iraq. stop trying to fix them. darren miller distinguished scholar at the woodrow wilson international center. he's advised several secretaries of state on the israeli arab peace process. great to have you in studio with us. >> pleasure to be here. >> you say stop fixing the problem, what does that mean? >> we're stuck in a region we can't fix, we can't leave, we have interests, allies we have enemies. we have to fashion a policy. the reality is we're never going to solve comprehensively any of the four or five core issues that we face. so we have to determine what are america's vital interests. forget the discretionary ones. drill down and try to figure out how to manage. because in the end it's conditions to be managed, not problems to be resolved. >> okay. so is the getting rid of or destroying isis a core american interest? >> it is. the reason the president engaged isn't because it's interested in another trillion dollar -- he got into it becau