Watergate journalist Bob Woodward thinks Hillary Clinton's private email account controversy shares some similarities with Richard Nixon's infamous Watergate scandal. Woodward, who was one of the Washington Post reporters who helped break the story that eventually led to President Nixon's resignation, compared Clinton's emails to the Nixon tapes in an interview Monday, as Nixon thought that the tapes he kept documenting conversations were "exclusively his."
"Follow the trail here," Woodward said on MSNBC's Morning Joe. "You've got massive amounts of data. It, in a way, reminds me of the Nixon tapes: thousands of hours of secretly recorded conversations that Nixon thought were exclusively his."
Clinton turned over her private email server to the Justice Department last week, and the department has already found at least 60 private emails containing classified information. "This has to go on a long, long time," Woodward said, "and the answers are probably not going to be pretty."
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