Don't put that popcorn-popper away just yet . . . On today's Morning Joe, Chuck Todd said he felt that in his Meet the Press interview of Hillary Clinton yesterday, she was signalling to her Dem supporters that there could be more damaging revelations to come on the email scandal.
Todd was alluding to the moment in the interview in which Hillary agreed with his characterization of a "drip, drip, drip" aspect to the scandal. When Todd asked whether she could "reassure Democrats that there's nothing else here," Hillary's answer was a very un-reassuring "there's only so much I can control."
Hillary did get off a good laugh line, telling Todd she's providing "more transparency and more information" than anyone else. If the president thing doesn't work out, maybe a stand-up Vegas gig could be in Hillary's future.
Note: you might say it was Hillary's All About Eve moment. Remember this?
CHUCK TODD: It has the feel of a drip, drip, drip. Can you reassure Democrats that there's nothing else here?
HILLARY CLINTON: Well, it is like a drip, drip, drip. And that's why I said there's only so much that I can control. But what I have tried to do in explaining this is try to provide more transparency and more information than anybody that I'm aware of who's ever served in the government. And I'm happy to do that because I want these questions to be answered.
WILLIE GEIST: For people who didn't get a chance to sit down and watch the full interview with Hillary Clinton, we've been playing a lot of it this morning, what was your takeaway as you sat across from her?
TODD: I'm always a little hesitant to try to characterize your own interview. Sometimes when you're involved in it --
GEIST: What new did you learn talking to her?
TODD: I guess I learned a couple of things. One is that she is not willing to say there's no more stuff that's going to come out. That I thought that she wanted to make it clear yesterday hey, more stuff could come out. There could be more revelations or there could be more charges. She said some of them could come from the Republicans, I think she was trying to politicize it a little bit, but she was basically, to me it was sending a signal to supporters, hey, maybe this doesn't go away but I'm trying to figure out how to handle it.
HAROLD FORD, JR.: But she did say that most of that if not all of that was out of her control.
TODD: Well that's what, right, that was another way of saying, hey, more stuff's going to come out: there's nothing I can do about it. A lot of people I think have come to her and say can't you just put everything out there that's out there and I think her argument is I don't know what's out there. I've already done what I can do.
