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Hillary Clinton: I chose to turn over 55,000 pages because I wanted to go above and beyond what was expected of me because I knew the…

On the recordJuly 6, 2015
I chose to turn over 55,000 pages because I wanted to go above and beyond what was expected of me because I knew the vast majority of everything that was official already was in the state department system.
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Hillary Clinton
Democratic · New York

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Clinton explains her decision to voluntarily turn over emails.

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