Clinton aides says 2016 bid hurt by email controversy

In this Aug. 28, 2015 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton, addresses the summer meeting of the Democratic National Committee in Minneapolis. The State Department made public roughly 7,121 pages of Clinton's emails late Monday night, including 125 emails that were censored prior to their release because they contain information now deemed classified. The vast majority concerned mundane matters of daily life at any workplace: phone messages, relays of schedules and forwards of news articles.(AP Photo/Jim Mone) In this Aug. 28, 2015 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton, addresses the summer meeting of the Democratic National Committee in Minneapolis. The State Department made public roughly 7,121 pages of Clinton's emails late Monday night, including 125 emails that were censored prior to their release because they contain information now deemed classified. The vast majority concerned mundane matters of daily life at any workplace: phone messages, relays of schedules and forwards of news articles.(AP Photo/Jim Mone)

By Associated Press September 3, 2015 1 min read

WASHINGTON (AP) – Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to more fully address questions about her use of a private email server as secretary of state in the coming weeks, as her campaign acknowledges that her presidential bid was hurt by the heavy focus on the controversy over the summer.

Campaign chairman John Podesta is telling reporters on a conference call that Clinton faced “headwinds” in recent weeks, saying the “noise” about her email set-up has made it more difficult for her message to “break through.”

Campaign aides say Clinton will sit down for an interview with MSNBC on Friday, the first in a series of media appearances Clinton will participate in this fall.