Clinton expected to raise more than $45M in campaign’s first

The emails contradict recent comments by Axelrod to MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, in which he said he would have “asked a few questions” and shared his “concerns” had he known about Clinton’s private email account and server.

But it’s unclear whether the officials realized Clinton, now the leading Democratic presidential candidate, was running her email from a server located in her home in Chappaqua, New York – a potential security risk and violation of administration policy. There are also plenty of smaller bits of interest that offer insight and for which she could face some criticism.

According to Politico’s Mike Allen, the video represents a Clinton camp “prebuttal” to expected criticism over the latest batch of her State Department emails released late Tuesday night. There is nothing in the exchanges so far to indicate they did. Clinton was later informed it wasn’t a full Cabinet meeting.

It’s not clear whether other administration officials who emailed her knew that she relied exclusively on that email, which was housed on a private server. In March, the chairman of the Benghazi committee Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-South Carolina) released a statement questioning the timing of her deletion of her messages. The goal is for the department to publicly unveil 55,000 pages of her emails by January 29, 2016 – just three days before Iowa caucus-goers will cast the first votes in the Democratic primary contest.

Clinton has raised at least $19.5 million at 61 such fundraisers, an amount that makes up at least 43 percent of her fundraising total.

In one exchage with an aide, Ms Clinton wondered whether it was a problem that she didn’t see Barack Obama as frequently as Richard Nixon met with Henry Kissinger, his secretary of state.

“The Secretary and Rahm are speaking, and she just asked him to email her – can you send me her address please?”

Clinton’s correspondence from her first year as the nation’s top diplomat left little doubt that the Obama administration was aware that Clinton was using a personal address.

Abedin passed along the request to Clinton.

“Axelrod wants your email – remind me to discuss with you if I forget”, Mills wrote. It was obvious that a bunch of her emails would come out and Axelrod didn’t need to retain credibility as badly as some of Obama’s people. During the entire time that she served at Foggy Bottom, she never once sent an official email bearing the standard @state.gov address. “Does he know I cannot look at it all day so he needs to contact me thru you or Huma or Lauren during work hours”, Clinton replied, referencing some of her top aides.

The fundraising figure, announced by the campaign on Twitter, didn’t include a breakdown of the total number of donors to Clinton, the average donation, or how many donors have already given the legal maximum for the primary campaign of $2,700. By her own admission, Hillary and her staff deleted at least 30,000 e-mails.