TIME’s political columnist Joe Klein says Hillary Clinton’s “primary interest is to protect herself.”
Appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Tuesday, Klein insisted Clinton’s handling of the private email scandal is similar to the White Water scandal in the 1990s when “Bill, George Stephanopoulos, a number of people wanted to have the all encompassing press conference, bring it all out and she vetoed it then.”
Joe Scarborough: You wrote a great book about Bill Clinton called The Natural. Hillary, what is the opposite of the natural?
Joe Klein: The unnatural.
Scarborough: Talk about the unnatural and how badly she has politically, politically. We’ll let the FBI draw its conclusions on whether laws were broken or not or national security was compromised but politically how has Hillary Clinton handled this since the first UN press conference?
Joe Klein: Well look, it’s the same old story. This is how she handled White Water in the 1990s. Bill, George Stephanopoulos, a number of people wanted to have the all encompassing press conference, bring it all out and she vetoed it then. And this time same thing. She is not getting very good advice and her primary interest is to protect herself.