Hillary Clinton to Hold Press Conference Today on Email Story

Hillary Clinton will hold a press conference Tuesday afternoon to address the revelation of her exclusive use of a personal email account and private server to conduct State Department business while Secretary of State.

MSNBC’s Clinton beat reporter Alex Seitz-Wald confirmed the presser. The start time is unknown, but Mediaite will link to a livestream when it becomes available. (UPDATE: Here it is.):

Sources confirm that Hillary Clinton wikl hold a press avail after her speech at the UN today.

— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) March 10, 2015

The press conference comes after a week of heavy criticism not only for Clinton’s email account but for her reticence on the subject. Clinton has not addressed the story during several public appearances in the past week, and her remarks on the story comprise a single tweet calling on the State Department to release the 55,000 pages of emails she recently submitted to them, a process that could take months.

Meanwhile Clinton representatives, including Lanny Davis and David Brock, have been battling it out on cable news, insisting the putative Democratic frontrunner did nothing wrong.

Chances Clinton will pull an Arnie Vinick, in which she exhausts the news value of a scandal by fielding every possibly question about it in a marathon press conference, are about 10,000 to 1, but put $20 on it and you wind up a PAC donor.

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