Hillary Clinton's advisers reportedly wanted her to immediately apologize for the email scandal. She refused.

Hillary Clinton at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute 38th awards gala.
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When The New York Times story about Hillary Clinton's private email server broke on March 2, 2015, her top advisers' immediate reaction was that she should apologize — for "at the least, a political mistake," Politico reports.

[Campaign chairman] Podesta, often speaking on the road or from his home in Washington, counseled transparency and disclosure... Clinton’s new pollster and strategist, Joel Benenson... advised her to take responsibility for what had been, at the least, a political mistake. Campaign manager Robbie Mook and communications director Jennifer Palmieri — who would later help coax the candidate into issuing an apology — agreed, according to people close to the situation.Even Mills, Clinton’s most trusted and protective adviser — a lawyer who had been aware of the server setup as Clinton’s chief of staff at the State Department — agreed on the politics. [Politico]

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