Highlights from AP's account with Hillary Rodham Clinton, In an account Monday with The Associated Press, Democratic presidential applicant Hillary Rodham Clinton said she has "tried to not alone yield responsibility, because it was my decision, but to be as cellophane as possible" about her use of a clandestine email server if she was secretary of state.
Here are some added highlights from the interview.
Q: Why haven't you anon apologized for ambience up and application a clandestine email server as secretary of state?
A: "Well, I accept why humans accept questions and I'm aggravating to acknowledgment as abounding of those in as abounding altered settings as I can. What I did was accustomed by the Accompaniment Department. It was absolutely aloft board. Everybody in the government with whom I emailed knew that I was application a claimed email, and I accept said it would accept been a bigger best to accept had two abstracted email accounts. And I've aswell approved to not alone yield responsibility, because it was my decision, but to be as cellophane as possible."
Q: Has the email affair damaged your campaign? For example, in agreement of assurance a part of agents or in fundraising or accepting your bulletin to voters.
A: "No. Not at all. It's a distraction, certainly. But it hasn't in any way afflicted the plan for our campaign, the efforts we're authoritative to adapt actuality in Iowa and abroad in the country. And I still feel actual assured about the alignment and the bulletin that my attack is putting out."
Q: What has this aberration meant for you this summer?
A: "As the being who has been at the centermost of it, not actual much. I accept formed absolutely harder this summer, afraid to my bold plan about how I capital to array of arouse myself to the American people. How I capital to accept and apprentice what was on the minds of Iowans. And I feel actual good."
Q: What's your acknowledgment to voters who say they don't assurance you?
A: "Well, I don't like to apprehend that. But I accept by the end of this attack the American humans will apperceive that I'm the being active for admiral who wants to be not alone the admiral on the big issues that are in the headlines, but the admiral to absolutely plan on all of those claimed apropos like I heard in Newton bygone that accumulate humans up at night."
Q: You accept been analytical in the accomplished of politically motivated investigations. Has the Select Board on Benghazi devolved in such a way?
A: "Well, the American accessible will accept to actuate that. There accept been seven antecedent investigations that were conducted by aldermanic committees. Of course, there was the absolute accountability analysis lath that was conducted by arch Americans with ability in intelligence, address (and) the military.
"They all said that there were changes that bare to be made, which I absolutely accepted as the approachable secretary of state. And I testified afore both the Senate and the House. This board has now gone best and spent, I'm told, added money than the Warren Commission on Admiral Kennedy's assassination and abounding added investigations. I'll let the American humans draw their own conclusion."
Q: As a applicant with abysmal acquaintance in Washington, how do you accomplish your case to voters who are absorbed in an 'outsider' candidate, such as a Donald Trump or Ben Carson?
A: "That's what the attack is for. That's what we're traveling to be accomplishing in the next months. We accept some months to go afore the conclave on Feb. 1, and we accept debates and there will be added opportunities to lay out what I will do as president.
"I was accustomed on Saturday by (Sen.) Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire, and the columnist asked her, 'Well, you're acknowledging her and there's been a lot of advice that one of the added candidates is accomplishing actual able-bodied and humans are absorbed in outsiders.'
"And she goes, 'You know, I accept been accomplishing this back 1976, and I bethink actual able-bodied in August of 2003, John Kerry was 25 credibility abaft and Howard Dean was surging,' and she went anticipation affiliate and verse, because she has been complex for abounding years.
"We're blockage on our bold plan. We're accomplishing what I anticipate at the end of the day will acquire the aplomb and assurance and abutment of Iowans and added Americans."
Q: Could Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders next year alike then-Ill. Sen Barack Obama's achievement over you in 2008?
A: "You know, I'm not traveling to speculate. That's your job. You can brainstorm on political abeyant scenarios. I'm just traveling to run my campaign, allocution about what I'm accomplishing and why I anticipate I'd be the best admiral of any of the candidates on either side."
Q: Why haven't you anon apologized for ambience up and application a clandestine email server as secretary of state?
A: "Well, I accept why humans accept questions and I'm aggravating to acknowledgment as abounding of those in as abounding altered settings as I can. What I did was accustomed by the Accompaniment Department. It was absolutely aloft board. Everybody in the government with whom I emailed knew that I was application a claimed email, and I accept said it would accept been a bigger best to accept had two abstracted email accounts. And I've aswell approved to not alone yield responsibility, because it was my decision, but to be as cellophane as possible."
Q: Has the email affair damaged your campaign? For example, in agreement of assurance a part of agents or in fundraising or accepting your bulletin to voters.
A: "No. Not at all. It's a distraction, certainly. But it hasn't in any way afflicted the plan for our campaign, the efforts we're authoritative to adapt actuality in Iowa and abroad in the country. And I still feel actual assured about the alignment and the bulletin that my attack is putting out."
Q: What has this aberration meant for you this summer?
A: "As the being who has been at the centermost of it, not actual much. I accept formed absolutely harder this summer, afraid to my bold plan about how I capital to array of arouse myself to the American people. How I capital to accept and apprentice what was on the minds of Iowans. And I feel actual good."
Q: What's your acknowledgment to voters who say they don't assurance you?
A: "Well, I don't like to apprehend that. But I accept by the end of this attack the American humans will apperceive that I'm the being active for admiral who wants to be not alone the admiral on the big issues that are in the headlines, but the admiral to absolutely plan on all of those claimed apropos like I heard in Newton bygone that accumulate humans up at night."
Q: You accept been analytical in the accomplished of politically motivated investigations. Has the Select Board on Benghazi devolved in such a way?
A: "Well, the American accessible will accept to actuate that. There accept been seven antecedent investigations that were conducted by aldermanic committees. Of course, there was the absolute accountability analysis lath that was conducted by arch Americans with ability in intelligence, address (and) the military.
"They all said that there were changes that bare to be made, which I absolutely accepted as the approachable secretary of state. And I testified afore both the Senate and the House. This board has now gone best and spent, I'm told, added money than the Warren Commission on Admiral Kennedy's assassination and abounding added investigations. I'll let the American humans draw their own conclusion."
Q: As a applicant with abysmal acquaintance in Washington, how do you accomplish your case to voters who are absorbed in an 'outsider' candidate, such as a Donald Trump or Ben Carson?
A: "That's what the attack is for. That's what we're traveling to be accomplishing in the next months. We accept some months to go afore the conclave on Feb. 1, and we accept debates and there will be added opportunities to lay out what I will do as president.
"I was accustomed on Saturday by (Sen.) Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire, and the columnist asked her, 'Well, you're acknowledging her and there's been a lot of advice that one of the added candidates is accomplishing actual able-bodied and humans are absorbed in outsiders.'
"And she goes, 'You know, I accept been accomplishing this back 1976, and I bethink actual able-bodied in August of 2003, John Kerry was 25 credibility abaft and Howard Dean was surging,' and she went anticipation affiliate and verse, because she has been complex for abounding years.
"We're blockage on our bold plan. We're accomplishing what I anticipate at the end of the day will acquire the aplomb and assurance and abutment of Iowans and added Americans."
Q: Could Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders next year alike then-Ill. Sen Barack Obama's achievement over you in 2008?
A: "You know, I'm not traveling to speculate. That's your job. You can brainstorm on political abeyant scenarios. I'm just traveling to run my campaign, allocution about what I'm accomplishing and why I anticipate I'd be the best admiral of any of the candidates on either side."
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