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The Video Defense¹ About Her Emails Hillary Clinton Never Gave 

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Hillary Clinton and her campaign are dealing³ with a slow drip, drip, drip of revelations about the campaign's internal workings as WikiLeaks releases thousands of emails hacked⁵ from the personal account of Clinton's campaign chairman. NPR has reported on the outrage⁶ caused by private comments Clinton's staffers have made about certain groups.

With the latest release, NPR's Tamara Keith got a glimpse at the behind the scenes debate on how to deal with the controversy⁷ over Clinton's emails. And Tamara joins us now.

Good morning.

TAMARA KEITH, BYLINE⁸: Good morning.

MONTAGNE: What is it that you found?

KEITH: Well, you know, it doesn't take hacked emails to know that the Clinton campaign and Hillary Clinton herself have struggled with how to explain her use of a private email server while secretary of state. And this reached a fever pitch at the end of the summer of 2015, when she got into a heated exchange with a Fox News correspondent during a press conference. And let's just listen to a - that moment here.

(SOUNDBITE OF PRESS CONFERENCE)

ED HENRY: You were the official in charge. Did you wipe the server?

HILLARY CLINTON: What, like, with a cloth or something?

HENRY: I don't know. You know how it works digitally. Did you try to wipe the whole server?

CLINTON: I don't know how it works digitally at all. I do not have any...

HENRY: (Unintelligible) You did not try?

KEITH: So in the hacked WikiLeaks emails, which the campaign will not verify the authenticity⁹ of just as a policy, we found what we believe to be a script for a video address Clinton's campaign was considering having her give to her supporters to explain the email controversy. And this email chain starts with a draft script just three days after that widely panned press conference.

MONTAGNE: And what might Hillary Clinton have said to explain the email controversy in this - at that moment?

KEITH: Well, the script starts with her saying, quote, "Hello, I thought you might find it useful to have some answers to share with your friends if they ask about all these new stories about my email habits when I was secretary of state. So I want to take some time to try and explain it to you directly in one place at one time as best I can."

This draft then goes on to explain how she ended up using a personal account while secretary of state. She thought it would be simpler to have one address. And then it says, quote, "That's the explanation, but it's no excuse. There's a difference between allowed to do and smart to do. I shouldn't have done it this way. I should have set the standard that others were expected to meet. To do it all again, I would have used two email addresses."

The draft remarks say it was a mistake and that she regrets it.

MONTAGNE: And she never delivered those remarks at that time. How does this compare with what she did say publicly then?

KEITH: These draft remarks are clearer, more comprehensive and more personal than anything she was saying at the time. And in part, that's because she only addressed the email issue then when she was asked by reporters or in statements from her spokespeople that often got legalistic and defensive¹⁰. The apology - she did ultimately apologize, but it came a couple of weeks later, ultimately, in an interview.

MONTAGNE: Do we know why she didn't deliver this apology?

KEITH: We don't. Though several days later, some of the ideas and sort of the tone from this were picked up when she was asked again by a reporter at a press conference about the emails. The campaign is only responding by pointing the finger at Russia for the hack⁴. But in these internal email chains, there was an effort to finesse¹¹ language and concern that maybe the draft was too long or that it had, quote, "distracting tangents that the press would chase." We don't know whether this would have changed anything - probably not - because Clinton is still being asked about her emails to this day.

MONTAGNE: OK. NPR's Tamara Keith covers the Clinton campaign.

Thanks.

KEITH: You're welcome.

1 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

2 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

3 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

4 hack   

n.劈，砍，出租马车；v.劈，砍，干咳

参考例句：

• He made a hack at the log.他朝圆木上砍了一下。
• Early settlers had to hack out a clearing in the forest where they could grow crops.早期移民不得不在森林里劈出空地种庄稼。

5 hacked   

生气

参考例句：

• I hacked the dead branches off. 我把枯树枝砍掉了。
• I'm really hacked off. 我真是很恼火。

6 outrage   

n.暴行，侮辱，愤怒；vt.凌辱，激怒

参考例句：

• When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.他得悉此事时义愤填膺。
• We should never forget the outrage committed by the Japanese invaders.我们永远都不应该忘记日本侵略者犯下的暴行。

7 controversy   

n.争论，辩论，争吵

参考例句：

• That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
• We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。

8 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

9 authenticity   

n.真实性

参考例句：

• There has been some debate over the authenticity of his will. 对于他的遗嘱的真实性一直有争论。
• The museum is seeking an expert opinion on the authenticity of the painting. 博物馆在请专家鉴定那幅画的真伪。

10 defensive   

adj.防御的；防卫的；防守的

参考例句：

• Their questions about the money put her on the defensive.他们问到钱的问题，使她警觉起来。
• The Government hastily organized defensive measures against the raids.政府急忙布置了防卫措施抵御空袭。

11 finesse   

n.精密技巧，灵巧，手腕

参考例句：

• It was a disappointing performance which lacked finesse.那场演出缺乏技巧，令人失望。
• Lillian Hellman's plays are marked by insight and finesse.莉莲.赫尔曼的巨作以富有洞察力和写作技巧著称。