Hillary refuses to apologize for private server

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Hillary Clinton refused to apologize on Friday for using her own private email server to conduct official business as secretary of state.

“At the end of the day, I am sorry that this has been confusing to people and has raised a lot of questions, but there are answers to all these questions,” Clinton told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell.

The front-runner for Democrats’ 2016 presidential nomination went on to say, "This was fully above board. People knew I was using a personal email. I did it for convenience."

Mitchell pushed back, saying, "Just now you said people in the government knew you used personal email. The recent emails that were released indicated that the help desk at the State Department didn't know. They couldn't recognize what your email address was."

"Well, the people I was emailing to on the dot-gov system certainly knew. And they would respond to me on my personal email. But I do think it's a fair question," Clinton replied. "I have gone the extra step and gone through all the emails that I had from those four years in the State Department to make sure anything – even being overly inclusive – that could possibly be work-related, was made available to the State Department."

Clinton turned over her server to the FBI Aug. 11 after months of political and legal pressure. She has insisted that she did not send or receive classified information from her personal account, and that 31,000 deleted emails were non-work related. The FBI is now working to retrieve lost data from Clinton's server and to determine if it was compromised during her tenure with the Obama administration.

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It was revealed last month that Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III found two examples of "top secret" information in a random sample of 40 of Clinton's deleted emails. On Aug. 17, the State Department acknowledged that more than 300 of Clinton's processed emails (5.1 percent) have been flagged for potential secret information, the Washington Times reported.