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Cooper: Hillary Clinton’s repeated email assertions don’t make her seem very presidential

With arms out from her body and palms upraised, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton uses what has become for her a standard defensive gesture as she defends during an interview the use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.
With arms out from her body and palms upraised, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton uses what has become for her a standard defensive gesture as she defends during an interview the use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. With arms out from her body and palms upraised, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton uses what has become for her a standard defensive gesture as she defends during an interview the use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.

In the space of just a few lines over the long Labor Day weekend, Hillary Clinton demonstrated all voters need to know about why she would not make a good president.

Her comments about the private email server issue that continues to bedevil her underscores why people believe she is not honest or trustworthy.

On Friday, Clinton acknowledged that using a private email server while she was secretary of state was not the “best choice” and said she didn’t “stop and think” when she took office.

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So many problems around the world confronted her, she said, that she didn’t consider the kind of email server she would choose. She said she was “not thinking a lot when I got in” and wishes she had “made a different choice.”