A flummoxed Chris Matthews last night flatly declared, insisted, really, that there was absolutely "nothing" that Hillary Clinton had to hide in her emails and hence there really is nothing untoward that she did hide by conducting her email correspondence as Secretary of State on her own privately-owned-and-controlled email server.
If anything, what Hillary's probably hiding is merely "political" stuff like innocuous emails to elected officials or perhaps emails to old donors asking how their kids are doing, Matthews offered.
Here's the relevant transcript:
MSNBC
Hardball
June 22, 2015CHRIS MATTHEWS, host: The Republicans think they've got Hilary in some Achilles heel situation with the server in her house and, you know I think the average voter, at least my age, I think sometimes, they're older, I don't think they know what a server is. I don't know what a server -- I guess I can be told what it is. I don't want to think about what a server is.
Why would anybody vote on the basis-- imagine somebody coming out of voting booth in 2016, "Well, you know, I was for her until the server issue arose." What?! There's no such person!
DAVID CORN, Mother Jones magazine: But this is, they're trying to get to the issue that there's something shifty about the Clintons.
MATTHEWS: What is this that she's hiding?! There is nothing to hide!
CORN: It doesn't matter.
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MATTHEWS: It could just be political business that she's hiding. Why do you close the door at night? To hide something? No, just to close the door. It could be that she wants to talk to the governor of Nebraska or the senator from this or some contributor out in California, that, how's the kid doing at Stanford, I hope they get in. That kind of conversation.
