by louis nelson 10/28/16 10:26 am edt hillary clinton struggled with the fallout from news of her personal email server, vice president joe biden said thursday, because she had <u+201c>been so battered over the last 30 years<u+201d> by political attacks against her. speaking to cbs<u+2019> john dickerson for a <u+201c>face the nation<u+201d> interview that will air on sunday, biden sounded an empathetic note for clinton, who struggled throughout her campaign to shake off the controversy surrounding her use of a personal email server during her tenure as secretary of state. fbi director james comey recommended against filing criminal charges against clinton over the server, but did slam her and her state department colleagues for being <u+201c>extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.<u+201d> story continued below <u+201c>i don't think she understood the gravity of setting it up. she thought it was, you know, <u+2018>this is ok to do.<u+2019> and then when <u+2014> this woman has been so battered over the last 30 years. i think then when faced with, <u+2018>this is a problem,<u+2019> i think instead of just cutting it and dealing with it immediately, there's always an inclination to overthink it,<u+201d> biden said in an excerpt of the interview released friday by cbs. <u+201c>but i really do believe, and my grandfather said, i think people reward you being straightforward <u+2026> i still think it's the best policy. but when you have been on the other end of a concerted effort, justified or not justified, to undermine your credibility, i think you probably are in a different place in terms of how your instinct, how does it respond.<u+201d> biden told dickerson that he is unsure what he will do after leaving office, having worked in government since he was 30 years old. the vice president said he expected to work on many of the same issues that have been important to him as a politician, including violence against women, income inequality and his cancer moonshot project, but was unsure of what form that might take for him as a private citizen. the vice president did not mention the possibility of serving in clinton<u+2019>s administration if she is elected next month. politico reporte d thursday that biden is at the top of clinton<u+2019>s list to serve as secretary of state if she is elected to the white house, although neither the democratic nominee nor her aides had told the vice president as much. by michael grunwald by bill scher by thomas wright by joshua zeitz
biden: clinton struggled with email server fallout because of prior political attacks - politico
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