crisis manager who served as special council to bill clinton and whose most recent book is crisis tales. five rules for handling business politics and life. it s easy to get lost in the wheed weeds here here is what i think is the fundamental question. did secretary clinton compromise national security by storing classified material outside a secure system? no i wish i could address the headline that you read and we ll get to that but the answer to your question is no. the server that she stored her e-mails on protected by both secret service because it also resided in the home of a former president was absolutely secure. and those who think that the federal government has a more secure system ought to read the newspapers about the breach of security by chinese and other hackers into the most sensitive federal government. to suggest that because she had
r thatp that clinton used while secretary of state and p it also citesit also cites clinton s defense thatp that shethat she kept no classified information on thep server she set upserver she set up in her house. joining me now, two people i suspect with strong differing opinions the first is former federal prosecutor, who has worked on everything from the jonathan pollard spy case to prosecution of would-be assassin, john hinkley to the passport controversy. joining me from the d.c. bureau and lanny p davis. who s most recent book is crisis
after this. they ll have to come out with something else. we ll talk about that next. brianna keilar thanks so much. all of this surfacing as hillary clinton is gearing up for what many assume will be a run for the white house. so how will this play into things and how should she combat this controversy? i want to bring in lanny davis. he s the author of crisis tales. thank you for being here. i appreciate it. so hillary clinton is going to say, you know what? i didn t do anything wrong. i didn t violate the law. others say she violated the spirit of the law. i think that s pretty much all that it will take for some like the republicans to come down hard on her. so your reporter the republican word spirit is subjective. people will react differently. they should have done something different. she should have used government. i don t do that. i do facts. let s just start with three facts that aren t in dispute.
sure. and they do harken back a lot talking about the 90s. we have heard monica lewinsky come up, so it was interesting to hear that she was asked about it. but she is running all alone, brianna keilar, thank you very much for joining me. and coming up, also, the the new york times columnist, and lanny davis, the author of crisis tales, five rules for coping with crisis in business, politics and life, and a special white house correspondent. i feel like it is the 90s. i ll take it because i felt like i was a lot younger and thinner. guys, how did she do? well, i won t surprise anyone on the panel to say she did great. she did well, she had a clear gaffe and had questions she will
talking about the 90s. we have heard monica lewinsky come up. it was interesting to hear hillary clinton asked about this in an interview with abc news. but she is running all alone right now. joining me now is a man who knows his way around white house scandals and that is carl bernstein. and lani davis. she is the author of crisis tales. and he is a former white house special counsel for the clinton administration. i feel like it is the 1990s again but i will take it. how did she do? i think she did great. as easy as that. maggie? she had one already have clear gaffe and has questions she will continue to get asked