[RealJustme]

Just days ago Obama said he was surprised as everyone else that Hillary was using a private email address to conduct government business and claims he first learned of it when CNN broke the news. Hours after email exchanges between Hillary and Obama on her private email account were released today the White House tried to clarify that Obama actually did know she used a private email address to conduct government business but what Obama meant was that he didn't know it was wrong when he denied knowing about it.

President Obama emailed with Hillary Clinton during her tenure as secretary of State but was unaware of how her personal email address was set up, the White House said Monday.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters that Obama emailed to Clinton’s private address and did not know how Clinton planned to comply with the Federal Records Act with regards to private emails about official State Department business.

“The president did email with Secretary Clinton,” Earnest said.

“The president did, as I think many people expected, did over the course of his first several years in office exchange emails with his secretary of state,” Earnest said.

The comments come amid a budding controversy over Clinton’s use of a private email address hosted on a home server while serving as the nation’s top diplomat. The email controversy has cast a shadow over her all-but-certain presidential bid and provoked questions about tensions between her and the Obama administration.

The State Department admitted they did not initially retain records of Clinton's personal emails. Clinton’s team recently selected and turned over 55,000 pages of emails after repeated requests from the State Department over a two year period.

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the chairman of the House committee investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya, said this weekend there are several months gaps in the emails that Clinton submitted.

Earnest said it is up to the State Department to make sure email correspondence complies with the Federal Records Act and “respond to reasonable requests from congressional committees.”

Obama told CBS News on Sunday that he learned of Clinton’s use of her personal email address for official business “the same time everybody else learned about it through news reports.”

“The point that the president was making is not that he didn’t know Secretary Clinton’s email address, he did," Earnest said. "But he was not aware of the details of how that email address and that server had been set up or how Secretary Clinton and her team were planning to comply with the Federal Records Act.”

Clinton has refused to answer media questions about her personal email address and explained she relied on her staff to insure the emails were in compliance.

JAIL TIME!

[johnforbes]

Just a few days ago, I said it was utterly impossible for the White House not to have known about Hillary's private email system.

Now the White House has admitted knowing.

So now Obama -- Mr. Harvard Law -- has to pretend he didn't know that federal records are supposed to be public and exposed to public scrutiny and management?

Obama's lies make Nixon look like a school kid.