Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and host of MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show Tuesday night to discuss the fallout from Hillary Clinton’s news conference regarding her sole use of a private email system while at the State Department.
Speaking to Maddow, Mitchell complained about having to cover Hillary’s self-inflicted email controversy and insisted that “the report they issued jointly with the Gates Foundation yesterday, the Clinton Foundation and Gates Foundation report on the no ceilings report, was very important and had a lot of data in it, and I wish we had been working on that, frankly.”
After Mitchell described the “circus” that took place during Clinton’s United Nation’s news conference, the MSNBC host conveniently blamed the press from the 1990s for creating the wall of secrecy around her:
This goes back to the last such press conference, not combative, it was in the state dining room in April of 1994, she was wearing a lovely pink sweater, and she was addressing the question of cattle futures and Whitewater and the Rose law firm and whether they had special benefits from — and favors because of their position in Arkansas.
Mitchell continued to complain that much like today she would have preferred to cover foreign policy issues such as Bosnia rather than Whitewater and the Rose law firm:
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