Chuck Todd Grills Hillary on Email ‘Discrepancies,’ Changing Positions

Chuck Todd grilled Hillary Clinton on Meet the Press this morning about her transparency issues, email controversy, and her changing positions on multiple issues.

“Had every government agency head,” he said, “did what did you at the State Department, there would be a lot of information that wasn’t in the public. Do you see that now as a problem as far as the public is concerned?”

Clinton maintained that a large majority of emails she got and sent ended up in the government system, but still admitted in hindsight it was probably a mistake.

Todd confronted her about a number of discrepancies in what she’s said about the emails versus what’s come out publicly, and how despite her claim that it wasn’t a big deal to her at the time, “to put an email server at your house was a complicated thing.”

At various points during the interview, Clinton pointed out that Republicans similarly attacked her in the 90s and dismissed what she considered to be ridiculous theories about her.

Todd brought up the “trust deficit” surrounding Clinton and played a montage of her changing her positions on issues like Iraq, gay marriage, and the Keystone XL pipeline. He asked about the criticism that she changes her positions out of “political expediency.”

Clinton insisted she just assesses issues over time and changes her mind like all people do.

Watch the full interview above, via NBC.

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