well, kate, the white house is at the moment not commenting on this, but ivanka trump s legal team is arguing that the first daughter and senior adviser to president trump didn t fully understand the rules governing private e-mail use when she first took her job in the white house. now, obviously, there are a lot of parallels drawn with the hillary clinton e-mail scandal. not just the circumstances of it, both women under fire for using private e-mail for official use, but also their subsequent excuses. both initially denied transmitting classified information. both denied they intentionally flouted retention laws. ivanka s team has worked to distinguish the two situations, and a spokesman wrote, like most people, before entering into government service, ms. trump used a private e-mail. when she entered government, she was given a government e-mail account for official use. while transitioning into white house, until the white house provided her the same guidance they had to others w
federal records act and there are penalties for misavoiding the use of a government e-mail account to sort of prevent the records from becoming a public record. you know, as long as people have used official e-mail accounts there are attempts to evade having their e-mail become official records going back to the bush administration. there was an issue about several bush officials using rnc accounts and communicating that way so i guess it depends on if there was an intent to deceive here. kushner s lawyer said it was mainly news accounts exchanged. he sort of portrayed it as inact news. and ivanka trump as we know she has a role inside the white house was also someone listed with this e-mail account or the same type of domain. explain that. sure. so she has an account on the family domain as well. just like he does. we know she s corresponded with
now we ve reached this point where her team has handed over to the injures department that server that was in her home, that private server, even as the candidate has laughed off questions about whether or not the hard drive has been wiped of information. what, like with a cloth or something? well, no. in the end, the questions that had been raised by all of this come down to three key ones here. first of all, members of congress and other officials want to know, did she violate some basic regulations about keeping records by relying so heavily on a private system instead of a government e-mail account. second, what was in all those deleted e-mails? right now we have only her word that they contained nothing of importance, it s just personal. third, any classified information left vulnerable by her e-mail practices, wolf. these are the three questions coming out of that timeline that continue to drive this story. certainly not going away, at
and the state department might say, well, it s not so clear. it s not a cut and dried issue. she is pointing to something that s correct. however, nobody would question if hillary clinton had a dot gov e-mail and she was simply using a government e-mail account, this controversy likely would be much, much smaller for her. that s the problem she s created. speaker john boehner tweeted this morning that hillary clinton is playing word games in an effort to mislead the american people. he says she s making yet another false claim about whether or not this was classified information. what he s pointing to simply is there have been shifting explanations by the clinton campaign as to exactly what she did and what she sent and received. thank you. dismissing that e-mail controversy, but some say hillary clinton does that at her own peril. a new poll tells the story. for the first time in our
the intensity of the coverage is we are getting more true measure than we usually do. when it comes to the e-mail thing, is this fair pushback on it? yeah, she was using private e-mail. you are using the bridgegate scandal. here is a dove tailing of this and if it were so bad, why did t never come up until she decided to run for president? first of all, again, exclusively, chris. in today s world, everybody has their own private e-mail. if they use that for personal issues, family issues, those type of things. she was exclusively using it. she didn t use her government e-mail account. she wanted all communication within her control while she was the highest ranking cabinet member? why didn t it come up before? no one knew. the people that did know were part of the team. they were part of the team, chris. god forbid we question secretary clinton. now she s running for president,