President Obama says Hillary Clinton is not 'above the law' in email probe

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In President Obama's first Fox News interview in two years, he assured Chris Wallace that Hillary Clinton is not getting special treatment in the ongoing investigation into her use of a private email server as secretary of state.

"I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department, or the FBI, not just in this case, but in any case," Obama said on Fox News Sunday. "Nobody is above the law. How many times do I have to say it?"

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.