Clinton feels email controversy is a ‘distraction’

Hillary Clinton said she does not need to apologise for using a private e-mail account and server while at the State Department because “what I did was allowed.”

The front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination also said the lingering questions about her e-mail practices while serving as President Barack Obama’s first secretary of state have not damaged her campaign.

“Not at all. It’s a distraction, certainly,” Clinton said. “But it hasn’t in any way affected the plan for our campaign, the efforts we’re making to organise here in Iowa and elsewhere in the country.