--- title: Hillary Clinton Email Scandal: 'Sorry' for Controversey description: "Certainly, it doesn't make me feel good" canonical: https://time.com/4023250/hillary-clinton-email-scandal/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-04T16:51:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:47:06.562Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Is 'Sorry' for Email Controversy og:description: "Certainly, it doesn't make me feel good" og:url: https://time.com/4023250/hillary-clinton-email-scandal/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc041c3ccb2756632/69886255cd1bbad71e6fd081/hillary-clinton1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3280 og:image:height: 1845 og:image:alt: Democratic presidential candidate hillary Clinton og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Is 'Sorry' for Email Controversy twitter:description: "Certainly, it doesn't make me feel good" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc041c3ccb2756632/69886255cd1bbad71e6fd081/hillary-clinton1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Is 'Sorry' for Email Controversy > Sponsored content. 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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton takes reporters questions during a news conference after she addressed the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Summer Meeting in Minneapolis on Aug. 28, 2015. Craig Lassig—Reuters by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Sep 4, 2015 4:51 PM UTC In an exclusive interview with NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell on Friday, Hillary Clinton said she’s “sorry” there’s been so much controversy over her private email server, but declined to apologize for the decision to use it. She also suggested that GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is unqualified to be president and weighed in on the surprisingly robust challenge to her candidacy from Democratic primary rival Bernie Sanders. “At the end of the day, I am sorry that this has been confusing to people and has raised a lot of questions, but there are answers to all these questions,” Clinton said of… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/hillary-clinton-sorry-email-controversy-n421851?cid=par-time-article%5F20150904) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4023250/hillary-clinton-email-scandal/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4023250/hillary-clinton-email-scandal/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Is 'Sorry' for Email Controversy","datePublished":"2015-09-04T16:51:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:47:06.562Z","description":"\"Certainly, it doesn't make me feel good\"","url":"https://time.com/4023250/hillary-clinton-email-scandal/","keywords":["Hillary Clinton","2016 Election","hillary clinton emails"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc041c3ccb2756632/69886255cd1bbad71e6fd081/hillary-clinton1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc041c3ccb2756632/69886255cd1bbad71e6fd081/hillary-clinton1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Democratic presidential candidate hillary Clinton","caption":"Democratic presidential candidate hillary Clinton","creditText":"Craig Lassig—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4023250/hillary-clinton-email-scandal/","name":"Hillary Clinton Is 'Sorry' for Email Controversy"}}]}] ```