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Two interviews, two different (and revealing) answers
On Sunday, NBC's "Meet the Press" featured interviews from the only two women in the 2016 presidential field, and they gave two very different (and revealing) answers to the questions that have been dogging their campaigns. For Hillary Clinton, it was the controversy over her emails. When NBC's Chuck Todd asked if she can reassure Democrats that no other shoe might drop in the controversy, Clinton replied, "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 to provide more transparency and more information than absolutely 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." When you combine those words with husband Bill Clinton's interview on CNN over the weekend -- "The other party doesn't want to run against her. And if they do, they'd like her as mangled up as possible… We're seeing history repeat itself [referencing Whitewater from the 1990s]" -- you almost get the sense the couple is essentially telling skittish Democrats this message: "We've seen this before and we'll survive this, too. But let's not be naïve -- more is likely to come out." And there's another message as well: Unlike a couple of months ago, we're taking this very seriously.
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