--- title: Hillary Clinton Says She's Been As Open As Possible on Emails description: Hillary Clinton conceded that the prolonged release of news over her email server has been like a "drip, drip, drip" on her candidacy. canonical: https://time.com/4051264/hillary-clinton-says-she-has-been-as-open-as-possible-over-emails/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-27T13:59:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:41:49.490Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Says She Has Been As Open As Possible Over Emails og:description: "There's only so much I can control," she said. og:url: https://time.com/4051264/hillary-clinton-says-she-has-been-as-open-as-possible-over-emails/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta20c1192b26aa18d/698865a8ab6d7732356a663a/hillary-clinton11.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: &lt;&gt; on September 10, 2015 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Says She Has Been As Open As Possible Over Emails twitter:description: "There's only so much I can control," she said. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta20c1192b26aa18d/698865a8ab6d7732356a663a/hillary-clinton11.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Says She Has Been as Open as Possible Over Emails > Sponsored content. 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Watch the top 10 moments from Hillary Clinton's career in politics._ by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Sep 27, 2015 1:59 PM UTC  Hillary Clinton waits to be introduced at a campaign event at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Sept. 10, 2015 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Hillary Clinton waits to be introduced at a campaign event at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Sept. 10, 2015 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Scott Olson—Getty Images by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Sep 27, 2015 1:59 PM UTC Hillary Clinton endured tough questioning in a Sunday interview over the controversy over her email usage, conceding that the prolonged release of news has been like a “drip, drip, drip” on her candidacy and maintaining that she has sought to be as transparent as possible in dealing with the blowback. Speaking with NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press,” Clinton said she “can’t control” much of the news around the email usage. “There’s only so much I can control,” Clinton said in the interview. “Look, I think I have done all that I can to take responsibility, to be as transparent as possible in turning over 55,000 pages in turning over my server and to testify on October 22.” Clinton compared the barrage of criticism over her email server to accusations from the 1990s when her husband was president. “I have been involved from the receiving side in a lot of these accusations,” Clinton said. “In fact as you might remember during the ’90s there were a bunch of them all of them turned out to be not true, that was the outcome.” Her interview came a day after Bill Clinton defended her separately and blamed Republicans for the attacks on his wife, arguing that the controversy over the emails is overblown. **Read More:** [_FBI Uncovers Deleted Hillary Clinton Emails_](http://time.com/4045981/hillary-clinton-emails-fbi/) Clinton used a personal email server during her time as secretary of state, which was an unusual practice among State Department officials but did not violate any rules. She then deleted thousands of emails from her server she says are work-related, and turned over 55,000 pages of emails to the State Department. When asked whether any work-related emails would be found among the deleted emails on her server—intentionally deleting federal records is a crime—Clinton said again that all the emails were culled by her lawyers. “All I can tell you is that when my attorneys conducted this exhaustive process, I did not participate,” Clinton said. “I did not want to be looking over their shoulder.” **Read More:** [_The Legal Question Over Hillary Clinton’s Secret Emails_](http://time.com/3977063/hillary-clinton-emails-laws-rules/) Clinton also defended herself against criticism that she has changed her views to adjust to the majority’s thinking on a number of key issues, including the Iraq War, gay marriage and the Keystone XL pipeline. The Democratic frontrunner said her shift in opinion reflects changing evidence. “If we don’t learn, if we don’t make decisions based on best information we have available, well that’s regrettable,” Clinton said. “I am not someone who stakes out a position and holds it regardless of the evidence or regardless of the way that I perceive what’s happening in the world around me.” “I can’t predict what the Republicans will come up with, what kinds of charges or claims they might make. I have no control over that.” ## Transcript You know, I'm not sittin' here some little woman standing here by my man like Tammy Wynette. I'm sittin' here because I love him, and I respect him. Now is our chance to beat the historical odds, and give the American people the health security they need. If there is one message that echoes forth from this. Let it be that human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights once and for all. The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right- wing conspiracy that has been conspiring. Against my husband since the day he announced for president. I would be happy to, when you give me the signed letters. Well, right here. Right here. When you give me. Right here. Sign it right now. We'll shake. We'll shake on this, Ray. No, no, I want your signature, cause I think that everybody wants to see you signing something that you said you were for. You know, I have so many opportunities from this country. I just don't wanna see us fall backwards. Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it. The battle to stop Al Qaeda and its affiliates. Does not end with one death. What difference, at this point, does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator. I took the unprecedented step of asking that the state department make all my work- related emails, [ MUSIC ] Public for everyone to see. 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