really in to animals. certain ones i m okay. i usually like to be able to name them. pop quiz on that. we ll explain. we ll explain. we will kick it off with some controversy over i can t believe election season is starting already, huh? hillary clinton s use of private e-mails while secretary of state. this is going to dog her. it could overshadow her expected run for the white house, a run she hinted at during a speech last night. during the speech to a democratic group she did not mention e-mail issue. critics contend clinton broke the rules by not using a government e-mail account during her time as secretary of state. here now abc s karen travers. reporter: it s a familiar image. the globe trotting former secretary of state hillary clinton gripping a mobile device. now there are questions about how she sent e-mail. according to a scoop by the new york times, clinton exclusively used a personal e-mail account to conduct government business as secretary of state.
did that and hopefully we ll get to the bottom of that. john kerry is the first secretary of state to primarily use a government e-mail account. so from the creation clintons are always you know, creating all the rules. this just wasn t the case. there are questions. i m sure they ll be asked in d.c. for weeks to come. nobody s hiding anything right now. the most substantive was gawker. were thoos e-mails accounts being used to shield stuff for foyer requests. that seems to me like the most serious violation rather than the archiving and stuff like that. i m sure we ll hear more about the e-mails the next 18 months of our lives. thanks. in a short time hillary clinton, probably heard of her, she ll speak publicly for the first time since this story broke. we ll talk to two people who were there in the room, ahead.
himself or herself, to say, do we have all of your documents? how long have you known that secretary clinton was using a personal e-mail account instead of an official government account? well wolf we have known since late last summer that she used personal e-mail accounts and in fairness to her, she is not the only government official who uses personal e-mail accounts. what we did not know until recently was that she was using exclusively personal e-mail accounts. there is no official state department e-mail account for hillary clinton. so we were not surprised that we saw episodically e-mails from a personal account. what did surprise us is we never once saw an official government e-mail account. she and her staff have said that they did provide 55,000 pages of her personal e-mails to the state department. do you believe that was everything or is that 55,000 that she decided to provide?
archives for documenting the nation s record in at federal agencies. steven, one of the questions that hillary clinton is going to have to answer, which colin powell did answer today, he said that he too used a personal e-mail account while secretary of state. what he did not say in that statement is whether he used it exclusively. he left no indication as to whether he was also using a government e-mail account, but he did clearly say there was no classified material in any of the personal e-mails that he sent. he sent those e-mails, as he put it, for scheduling and bookkeeping reasons. steven, if there is any classified material in hillary clinton s personal e-mails that she sent as secretary of state, what kind of liabilities might that expose her to? lawrence, i think we re a long way away from that, but as
if hillary clinton is in the middle of a crisis just before announcing the 2016 run, wouldn t know it. the former secretary of state was greeted with thunderous aplausz in washington last night and spoke before more than 1,600 people at gala for emily s list but played no mention of the ongoing controversy surrounding her e-mail. the new york times first reported that clinton exclusively used her personal e-mail at secretary of state instead of a now required government e-mail account and the a.p. now says that private e-mail server was registered to clinton s home in chappaqua, new york. house republicans are jumping on the revelations that the congressional committee investigating the 2012 benghazi attack is planning to issue requests for e-mails. alex from the washington post, good morning. all smiles last night, but is the clinton camp in crisis mode right now is? certainly not happy but part of the problem is there is no clinton camp.