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In an interview with former Obama White House press secretary and current NBC political analyst Robert Gibbs on Tuesday's Today, co-host Matt Lauer saw big problems for Hillary Clinton in the wake of revelations that she used a private email account during her tenure as secretary of state: "It provides a lay-up, doesn't it Robert, for her critics who say this is all about a lack of transparency as she prepares for a run in 2016, that you can't go back and look at those emails?"
Surprisingly, the longtime Democratic operative agreed with Lauer's assessment: "I think there's no doubt. I think this is another one of those things that the Clinton campaign, such as it is, is gonna have to explain. I think it's much easier for critics to explain why they don't exist than it might be for her to explain why she used her private email."