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After softening her coverage of the Hillary Clinton email scandal on Monday's NBC Nightly News, on Tuesday's Today, correspondent Andrea Mitchell tried to excuse Clinton's initial unwillingness to address the controversy: "She may be reluctant because of what happened in April 1994. Under pressure, she held a White House news conference about an Arkansas land deal, it led to more investigations."
After lamenting how Clinton had to answer questions about the infamous Whitewater scandal, Mitchell noted that "the email controversy was not part of a game plan" and touted how "Clinton's longtime defenders are firing back." A soundbite followed of Democratic strategist James Carville declaring: "This is not going to change anything, it just gives people a reason to get out of breath about a lot of cockamamie, goofy stuff."