Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton repeatedly refused to say whether she wiped her private email server during a contentious press conference Tuesday in Nevada.
In a testy exchange with Fox News’ Ed Henry, Clinton argued that she had the authority to turn over to the State Department what she felt necessary, pointing to the 55,000 pages of emails she released.
“All I can tell you is in retrospect, if I had used a government account and I had said ‘you know, let’s release everything. Let’s let everyone in America see what I did for four years,’ we would have the same arguments,” Clinton said. “So that’s all I can say.”
“But did you wipe the whole server?” Henry shot back.
“I have no idea. That’s why we turned it over,” Clinton said.
“You said you were in charge of it,” Henry told Clinton. “You were the official in charge. Did you wipe the server?”
“What, with like a cloth or something?” Clinton asked facetiously. “No.”
“I don’t know. You know how it works digitally. Did you wipe the whole server?” Henry asked for the fourth time.
“I don’t know how it works digitally at all,” Clinton responded.
The Democratic front-runner went on to repeat that she turned over everything that she believed what was “work-related” before promptly ending the press conference.
Clinton’s denials come on the heels of an NBC News report that the FBI believes the Democratic front-runner tried to wipe her server before it was handed over. The officials believe they may be able to recover some data from the server.
