Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was faced with the nagging issue of her private email server once again during MSNBC’s Democratic debate in Durham, New Hampshire, on Thursday.
Clinton said she is “100 percent confident” the investigation will not be problematic in her bid for the White House.
“I have absolutely no concerns about it whatsoever,” she told debate moderators Chuck Todd and Rachel Maddow.
It was the first time Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders debated in a one-on-one face off since former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley suspended his campaign on Monday. It is also the last time the two candidates will meet before the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday.
Clinton called the server issue a “political ploy” before turning to news that former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are now facing a similar problem. The State Department said it found “secret” or “confidential” information on 12 emails from personal servers of Powell and Rice's staff.
“There are going to have to be security reviews of a lot of other people — including Republican office holders,” she said. “We've got to get to the bottom of what's going on here and I hope that will happen.”
The State Department said last week it would not release 22 emails from Clinton’s private email server because it said they contained classified information.
“I never sent or received any classified material,” she said. “They are retroactively classifying it.”
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As for Sanders, he said he will not politicize the issue.
“The secretary probably doesn’t know that there’s not a day that goes by when I am not asked to attack her on that issue, and I have refrained from doing that,” he said.
