Subject: Update: Hillary Clinton's Appearance in Iowa Today
From: Adrienne Elrod <[email-masked]>
To: Adrienne Elrod <[email-masked]>
Cc: Alexandria Phillips <[email-masked]>, Jesse Ferguson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 18:03:08 -0400
List-Id: <toptalkers.hillaryclinton.com>

Friends –

This afternoon in Iowa, Hillary Clinton announced her policy to strengthen
agriculture and support rural communities so they can get ahead and stay
ahead. Read more here. <https://www.hillaryclinton.com/p/briefing/>

During a press availability following her speech, Clinton addressed her
email usage as Secretary of State, as well as the urgent need to curb gun
violence in the aftermath of the horrific shooting today in Virginia.

*Of her email usage as Secretary of State, Clinton said: *

“Well, I know people have raised questions about my email use as Secretary
of State, and I understand why.  I get it.  So here’s what I want the
American people to know.  My use of personal email was allowed by the State
Department.  It clearly wasn’t the best choice.  I should’ve used two
emails: one personal, one for work.  And I take responsibility for that
decision, and I want to be as transparent as possible, which is why I
turned over 55,000 pages, why I’ve turned over my server, why I’ve agreed
to – in fact, been asking to – and have finally gotten a date to testify
before a congressional committee in October.  And I’m confident that this
process will prove that I never sent nor received any email that was marked
classified.

“And I'm going to keep talking about what the American people talk to me
about, what’s on their minds, and to lay out my plans for what I would do
as president to make the economy work for everybody, to make college
affordable, to get the cost of drugs down, to get equal pay for equal work
for women, and the whole suite of issues that I think are really at the
core of this presidential campaign.”

*Read the New York Times reporting of her comments on emails here.
<http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/08/26/hillary-clinton-takes-responsibility-for-email-use-saying-it-wasnt-the-best-choice/?ref=politics&_r=0>
*

*Of the tragedy in Virginia, Clinton said:*

“First of all, I was so just stricken to think that these two young people
doing the work that you guys do every single day would be murdered on live
television.  And I will extend my condolences and sympathies to their
families and to their co-workers and pray for the woman who, last I
checked, was still in critical condition.  *But I will also reiterate we
have got to do something about gun violence in America, and I will take it
on.  *There are many people who face it and know it, but then turn away
because it’s hard.  It’s a very political, difficult issue in America.  But
I believe we are smart enough, we are compassionate enough to figure out
how to balance the legitimate Second Amendment rights with preventive
measures and control measures so that whatever motivated this murderer, who
eventually took his own life, we will not see more deaths – needless,
senseless deaths.

“So yes, I feel just great heartache at what happened, and I want to
reiterate how important it is we not let yet another terrible instance go
by without trying to do something more to prevent this incredible killing
that is stalking our country.  And we’ve had so many terrible instances of
it in the last two years, but it happens every day – intentional,
unintentional, murder, suicide – it happens every day.  And there is so
much evidence that if guns were not so readily available, if we had
universal background checks, if we could just put some timeout between the
person who’s upset because they got fired or the domestic abuse or whatever
other motivation may be working on someone who does this, that maybe we
could prevent this kind of carnage.

“So I hope that in addition to expressing sympathy for those directly
affected, that this is maybe – for the media, for the public, for elected
officials, for every American – what it hopefully will finally take for us
to act.”

*Read MSNBC’s reporting of her comments condemning gun violence here.
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hillary-clinton-says-she-hopes-virginia-tv-shooting-leads-gun-reform>
*

Thank you!

Adrienne

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Adrienne K. Elrod
Spokesperson
Hillary For America
*www.hillaryclinton.com <http://www.hillaryclinton.com>*
@adrienneelrod

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