becoming leaner and more agile. jenkins had been ceo for the past three years. hillary clinton has given the first national television interview of her presidential campaign almost three months after entering the race for the white house. she sat down with cnn s senior political correspondent brianna keilar in washington. here is the exclusive. reporter: one of the issues that has erode some trust that we ve seen is the issue of your e-mail practices while you were secretary of state. i think there are a lot of people who doesn t understand what your thought process was on. that can you tell us the story of how you decided to delete 33,000 e-mails and how that deletion was executed? let s start from the beginning, everything i did was permitted. there was no law there was no regulation there was nothing
responsibility for that because of her recent controversies involving her e-mail practices while she was secretary of state. she did not bite on that. instead she blamed republicans. one of the issues that has eroded some trust is the issue of your e-mail practices while you were secretary of state. i think there s a lot of people who don t understand your thought process on that. can you tell me the story about how you decided to delete 33,000 e-mails and how that deletion was executed. let s start from the beginning. everything i did was permitted. there was no law. there was no regulation. there was nothing that did not give me the full authority to decide how i was going to communicate. previous secretaries of state have said they did the same thing. and people across the government knew that i used one device. maybe it was because i am not
that it s your job to raise those and we ll do our best to respond to them i think what people talked to me about and that s all i can go on is the literally thousands of people i ve seen in the course of this campaign. they want to know what i m going to do for the economy. what i m going to do for education, what i m going to do for health care they trust me to have a plan and to be committed to carrying out that plan and they should. because i will. one of the issues that has eroded some trust that we ve seen is the issue of your e-mail practices, while you were secretary of state. i think there s a lot of people who don t understand what your thought process was on that. can you tell me the story of how you decided to delete 33,000 e-mails and how that deletion was executed? well let s start from the beginning, everything i did was permitted. there was no law. there was no regulation there was nothing that did not give me the full authority to decide how
that election was decided in january/february of 2014 with all the money that democratic senators were hammered on, on the affordable care act. you go back to 2012 most people will say mitt romney lost in january/february/march because, you know, you have this feeling that he was out of you have to and he walked around with a top hat and zirl i don t knowllions of dollars and he was uncaring. that stuck with him. you wonder how much of this sticks with hillary if she doesn t get ahead of it. the clinton cash book probably came out at the best possible time. it s coming out so early, sort of get these questions out of the way. the question is the paid speeches. if bill clinton is really going to continue giving them. if the clintons still look as if whether it s her e-mail practices, whether it s the way
hillary clinton kicked off her week with a busy day in washington on monday and it included a meeting with barack obama. press secretary josh earnest said the president met quietly with him for about an hour. president obama and secretary clinton enjoy catching up in person when their schedules permit and the two discussed a, quote, range of topics. that s not really saying anything. earlier it in day clinton appeared on a panel at the left-leaning center for american progress. last night she spoke at a journalism awards ceremony where she joked about her relationship with the press and recent news surrounding her e-mail practices while at the state department. i m well aware that some of you may be a little surprised to see me here tonight. you know my relationship with the press has been at times, shall we say, complicated. but i am all about new