Hillary Clinton: 'It would have been better' if I used official email
AP
The press conference took place at the United Nations where Clinton was participating in the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Clinton, who is widely considered the Democratic frontrunner in the 2016 presidential race, attributed her use of a private email address to "convenience" and a desire to have her official and personal messages on a single device.
"I opted for convenience to use my personal email account, which was allowed by the State Department,because I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails, instead of two. Looking back, it would have been better if I simply used a second email account," she said. "But at the time, this didn't seem like an issue."
A Clinton communications aide, Nick Merrill, handpicked which reporters got to ask questions throughout the press conference. Journalists who attempted to get their questions in outside of this process were ignored.
The very first person called on praised Clinton's work on behalf of women's rights and asked if the email controversy was sexist.
"If you were a man today, would all this fuss be being made?" he asked.
She suggested she would leave that question for others to answer.
Subsequent questions were much more aggressive. Clinton was repeatedly pressed on her reasoning for using a private address and quizzed about the security of her account.
Clinton also said she would not hand over her server to investigators. She attributed her reluctance to do this to the fact personal communications were also on the server.
"No one wants their personal emails made public," Clinton said. "I think everyone understands that."
This story is being continuously updated with details from the press conference.
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