Bill Clinton said Monday that he thinks the controversy over his wife’s private email server will “burn itself out” soon, and sarcastically congratulated Republicans on driving down Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Speaking with CNBC’s Becky Quick, the former president said he’s glad Clinton is facing questions far away from Election Day, and he seemed baffled by the importance of the inquiry.
“I’m glad it happened in 2015 instead of 2016. And I believe it will burn itself out,” Clinton said. “What the american people have to think of is this: A few months ago, she was still the most admired person in public life in america. Why? because she was covered because of the work she did. She’d been around a long time. People knew that she’s on the level, that she gets up every and tires to do a good job. Then all of a sudden the only thing that matters is e-mails. What exactly does it matter?”
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In a separate interview over the weekend with CNN, the former president defended his wife from what he characterized as partisan witch hunt, which he compared the Whitewater investigation of the 1990s.
Noting his wife’s deteriorating polling, Clinton said Monday that the GOP had been successful. “They were successful. I congratulate all the people behind it,” he said.
But he said that the real transparency problem is not with his wife, but with Republicans on the congressional committee investigating Hillary Clinton’s email server, whom he accused of leaking sensitive national security documents and forcing witnesses to testify in private.








