Hillary Clinton... sometimes described as
The Heroine of Tuzlaand at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as
Another Frederick T. Frelinghuysen...
’s ongoing e-mail scandal as co-host Savannah Guthrie actually grilled him on the topic. She pressed: "This is something that dogs Hillary Clinton, whether or not people trust her. If you look at what she said over the past year or so about her e-mail, I can count at least four statements that just turned out not to be true. Has she earned that mistrust?"
Kaine lamely replied: "Savannah, if you ask somebody a question 150 times or 200 times, you're going to be able to find that they don't use exactly the same word every time, and there's going to be variations and then people are going to play on those, but ‐ " Guthrie interrupted him with a dose of reality: "In point of fact, though, she did use the same verbiage, it just happens to not be true."
He asserted: "Well, here's what I've heard her say. I've heard her say, ’I made a mistake and I've learned something from it, and I wouldn't do it again and I apologize.’" Guthrie didn’t let him off the hook: "She has acknowledged mistakes with respect to the e-mail practices. She hasn't acknowledged a mistake with regard to what she has told the American people."
Kaine repeated: "The bottom line is this, you know, this is an area where she says, ’I made a mistake and I've learned from it and I've improved and I'm going to do differently.’"