Krauthammer: Clinton Email Scandal ‘Not A New Story,’ ‘A Replay’ Of The 1990s [VIDEO]

Appearing on “Special Report” Thursday night, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer remarked that the Hillary Clinton’s personal email fiasco has Democrats “dismayed” because “this is not a new story.”

The conservative commentator added that Clinton cannot simply clear the air with a lengthy press conference because her answers to the questions would be “self-indicting” if they are even “remotely honest.”

KRAUTHAMMER: In the mid 90s, William Safire, the dean of columnists of The New York Times, had a famous column which was about Hillary in which he called her a congenital liar. He later sort of retracted that and said, no it wasn’t genetic, it was acquired. But she was sort of an inveterate liar. This is not a new story and that is the reason why the Democrats are so dismayed. This is sort of, you know, a replay of the game of the 1990s. And the reason that she can’t do a [Chris] Christie and do a two-hour press conference were she clears the air is two reasons.

Number one, she’s a Clinton, and what the Clintons do is never clear the air. They spend the first month or two surrogates the machine attacking the accusers, as in the Lewinsky scandal. And then later, if you have to confess, if you are caught red-handed, you admit it. The second were is if she has a press conference, she will be asked, you turned over 55,000 e-mails. How many are left on your server? She will either say I don’t know or I’ll get back to you and then going to have to answer why don’t you turn them over, to which there is no answer. I suppose the answer is ’cause I want to hide them, I want to sift them, I want to make sure the ones that are incriminating are kept back.’ She can’t do it because the answers to the questions, if remotely honest, are self-indicting.