Clinton campaign manager says the new emails could be 'from anybody in the world!'


In a testy interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace Sunday morning, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, Robby Mook, insisted there is no way to know whether emails reportedly from Clinton's private server discovered on "electronic devices belonging to [Clinton aide] Huma Abedin and her husband, Anthony Weiner" involved Abedin at all.
"You talk about the responsibility of the American people to get all the information out," Wallace noted, but "there is someone who knows what's in all those emails, and that is Huma Abedin. Has Secretary Clinton asked her what's in those emails?"
Mook said that Clinton has not asked, but was not willing to concede the premise of Wallace's query. Instead, he insisted Wallace was making an unfounded inference in suggesting, as credible news outlets have widely reported, that the emails in question were found on a laptop belonging to Abedin and Weiner. "Why wouldn't Clinton ask anybody?" Mook exclaimed. "They could be emails from anybody in the world!"
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Well, because "there are no reports that it's anybody else except Huma Abedin," Wallace answered. Watch the exchange beginning around the 1:30 mark below. Bonnie Kristian
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