Hillary Clinton apparently cannot speak loudly enough to out-sound reporters asking "when-did-you-stop-beating-your-wife" questions. Or more specifically, "why-won't-you-apologize" questions for using a private email account and server while secretary of state.
Since you won't see her complete answers in the sound-bite clips and quotes of most media reports, here are some highlights from her first interview Friday on this subject with NBC News reporter Andrea Mitchell:
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* "At the end of the day, I am sorry that this has been confusing to people and has raised a lot of questions. But there are answers to all these questions, and I will continue to provide those answers."
* "I certainly wish I had made a different choice, and I know why the American people have questions about it, but in retrospect it certainly would have been better. I take responsibility. I should have had two accounts, one for personal and one for work-related."
* "It wasn't the best choice. The people in the government knew that I was using a personal account. But it would have been better if I'd had two separate accounts to begin with. And certainly I'm doing all I can now to try to be as transparent about what I did have on my work-related emails."
* I had a personal email when I was in the Senate, as a vast majority of senators do. I'm so careful about classified information, and - as has been confirmed by the inspectors general over and over - I did not send or receive any material marked classified. We dealt with classified material on a totally different system. I dealt with it in person. I dealt with it on secure phone lines. I had the traveling team, the technical team that went me, and they set up tents so that anything when I was traveling anything that was classified would be protected from prying eyes. I take classified materials very, very seriously, and we followed all the rules on classified materials."
Is the word "apologize" in here? No. But there are plenty of I'm-sorries. And much more helpful information.
Perhaps the national press might begin asking some better and more enlightening questions, like what will you do about - pick one: climate change, enforcing the Iran nuclear deal, helping working-class families, improving public education in America.
It's time for reporters to move the presidential candidates - all of them - to real and important questions.