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MSNBC Host: ‘No Conceivable Rational Explanation’ For Hillary To Use Non-State Dept Email [VIDEO]

Al Weaver Reporter
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In the wake of a New York Times report Monday night that Hillary Clinton used a personal email rather than an official State Department address during her tenure as secretary of state, one MSNBC host slammed the presumptive 2016 nominee’s decision.

In the immediate aftermath, a baffled Lawrence O’Donnell said there is “no conceivable rational explanation” for the former secretary to “legitimately” use a personal email in absence of an official State Department one.

“This is not a senior official at the Environmental Protection Agency or the Department of Agriculture. This is the secretary of state using a not secure commercial email system,” O’Donnell said.

“I just think there is something more going on here because it just raises so many questions,” said MSNBC analyst Beth Fouhy. “Where were the State Department lawyers who allowed this to go forward? Where were the top diplomats in other countries receiving these emails from HRC@yahoo.com or something like that saying ‘wait a minute, this can’t possibly be an official missive from the secretary of state of the United States.'”

“She is a very secretive person, there’s no question about it,” Fouhy said. “For her to just willingly violate it to just to preserve some semblance of privacy really makes no sense.”

“Well, if it’s true that she never used a State Department email address, we have something that at first read has no conceivable rational explanation to it that is legitimate,” O’Donnell said incredulously.