Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton showed stunning presumption and her careless handing of classified information undermines her experience argument, former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw said Sunday.
“She’s made some huge mistakes, in my judgment,” Brokaw said.
Brokaw said he was “stunned” by an answer Hillary gave earlier this week. In an interview with Andrea Mitchell, Hillary said she “didn’t really stop and think what kind of email system” there would be when she set up a private email server in her New York home in January 2009, as she took office as secretary of state.
“When she said ‘I didn’t think about the effect of email,’ I was stunned,” Brokaw said. “We were deep into the digital age at that point; she’s secretary of state.”
“Do you believe her?” asked Chuck Todd.
“I believe that she was presumptuous … and I think that’s what a lot of people think,” said Brokaw. “That she’s presumptuous about ‘if I believe it, that’s the right way of doing things.'”
“At this point, to suggest that as secretary of state, as much as she’s been around, she didn’t think about the impact and the possibility of hacking just astonishes me,” said Brokaw. “I think it takes away from her big argument, ‘I’ve been there, I’ve done that, I know what I’m doing.'”
