questions and she is coming back with legalistic answers that are not helping her political case and might not be helping her legal case. pardon. it s very loud here today. not handicappielping her legal either with the fbi investigation now focused on that server and whether or not she or someone else tried to wipe all the data off the server. listen. the fbi believes you tried to wipe the entire server. did you try to wipe the so there would be no email, no my personal emails are my personal business. right? so i so we went through a painstaking process and turned over 55,000 pages of anything we thought could be work-related. under the law, that decision is made by the official. i was the official. i made those decisions. you were in charge of it. you were the official in charge. did you wipe the server? like with a cloth or
welcome back to the real story. at least two classified emails on benghazi were sent to catholic s private email account. kicking off, as you know now, the fbi investigation. and they re now part of the hundreds of emails, mostly classified after the fact, found on her personal server. as we heard earlier, the clinton campaign continues to laugh off this scandal. catherine herridge live for us in washington today. catherine, what is the significance of these two emails? gretchen. these emails from clinton aides got the ball rolling as you mentioned on the fbi investigation. this is the first time any media organization has identified who sent them and the content. the november 18, 2012, email two months after the benghazi
investigation by the fbi. neither of the documents is marked classified. as you know, gretchen, that is no excuse under the rules for handling classified information. okay. so so far, what is the response from the state department and the clinton campaign? well, clinton campaign spokesman brian fallon insisted to fox news this morning the information was not classified at the time the emails were sent. he added the state department shares this judgment and it s proof that the aub adeen email was released in full by the state department on its website. it is acknowledged there is a significant disagreement with the intelligence community s most senior watch dog. every is acting like this is the first time it s ever happened and it happens all the time. i can only tell you that the state department has said over and over again, we disagree. that s what they re sorting out, and that s what happens a lot of the times. this morning the intelligence
controversy again. our own ed henry holding her feet to the fire, especially when she tried to defend her private email account and server. listen to what happened. about taking responsibility i take responsibility. look, i just told jeff in retrospect this didn t turn out to be convenient at all and i regret that this has become such a cause celebre. ed, you re not listening to me. ed is always listening and he s live in las vegas. hillary s performance yesterday even has democrats, some of them, worried about her campaign today, right? reporter: yeah. absolutely, gretchen. i listen to you and your team, and that s what matters. i think the bottom line is that you have a political story today saying that after her performance in the news conference yesterday here in las vegas you have democrats, folks in her own party, campaign donors, strategists, people inside the white house saying what in the world is going on, that she s getting basic
controversy, what do you know about that? . reporter: they re saying a lot of the poll numbers that we and a lot of the media outlets are skewed in her words. she also tweeted that the press have a lot of questions about emails. the voters don t. interesting because hillary clinton ended her news conference abruptly last night after i fired several questions at her by saying, you guys keep asking about this, nobody else is. you have to wonder how that squares, though, with poll after poll, fox news and others, saying that voters do not find her honest and trustworthy, gretchen. ed henry live for us in vegas. thanks. see you soon. for more on hillary clinton s reaction to the email scandal time to bring in monica crowley. it s not just republicans who are now talking about this. it s democrats who are now nervous about the way in which she has handled the response to this, right? yes. the old adage that it s rarely