CNN’s Carol Costello Gets Candid: Hillary Made a ‘Dumb Move’

CNN anchor Carol Costello got a little candid this morning while describing Hillary Clinton‘s decision to use private email for government matters while she was Secretary of State.

Clinton is currently embroiled in controversy as it was revealed that she possibly violated government protocol during her tenure in the Obama administration. Explicit regulations, put in place shortly before she took office, state that government emails must be retained on the public server. After she left State, Clinton willingly turned over 55,000 pages of emails for public archiving, but that now leaves people to wonder what emails she could possibly be withholding, if at all.

During her CNN broadcast on Tuesday morning, Costello was flabbergasted by the ex-secretary’s decision to use private emails. “Why would Hillary Clinton do such a — gosh, I don’t want to use the adjective I have in my head,” she asked Daily Beast EIC John Avlon in the clip Grabien” target=”_blank”>flagged by Grabien. “Why would she do this?”

After Avlon asserted Clinton and her camp are “trying to control the message” by handing over the emails and suggested they were being somehow more transparent by doing so, Costello finally aired her true feelings: “I’ll say what the adjective was in my head: It seems kind of like a dumb move on Hillary Clinton’s part because surely she knew this would come out at some point in time.”

Watch the clip below, via CNN:

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