Obama: Hillary Clinton’s Personal Email a Mistake but Didn’t Endanger U.S.

President Barack Obama said former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server was a mistake, but that U.S. national security hadn’t been endangered.

In his first extensive remarks on the controversy that has roiled the Democratic presidential primary, Mr. Obama said on CBS’s “60 Minutes” program on Sunday that questions about Mrs. Clinton’s email arrangement were legitimate.

“It is important for her to answer these questions to the satisfaction of the American public,” Mr. Obama told CBS’s Steve Kroft.

“When we’re in these offices, we have to be more sensitive and stay as far away from the line as possible when it comes to how we handle information, how we handle our own personal data. And, you know, she made a mistake. She has acknowledged it,” the president said.