first, the hillary hutsell. -- hustle. 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. >> 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? >> 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. john: 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 lull people into not thinking she is a