Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File,” host Megyn Kelly went after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the evolving scandal that while head of the State Department, Clinton exclusively emailed all official State Department emails using her private email account with private servers maintained at her residence.
Kelly noted that means whether or not Clinton is in compliance with the Federal Records Act is determined by the “word of the Clinton team.
“That’s not how it’s supposed to work,” she continued. “The federal agencies are supposed to have all these documents. They’ll screen them. They’ll take out the personal ones. Someone could be held accountable. Right now it’s just Hillary’s people whose word upon which we apparently must rely.”
She added, “It’s not just the — you can have private email, it’s what you do with the email thereafter is what’s the problem. Federal law makes it a crime punishable by up to three years in prison if someone has records and “willfully and unlawfully conceals or destroys such records.” Did she conceal those records for years when those seven committees were demanding to see her personal correspondence?”
After running a clip of Hillary Clinton criticizing the Bush Administration over secret emails, Kelly continued, “What a hypocrite. It’s obvious.