Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Sunday said she "regretted" her controversial tarmac meeting with former President Bill Clinton this summer while the FBI was still investigating Hillary Clinton's use of a secret server for her emails during her tenure as secretary of state.While Lynch has never portrayed the June 27 Phoenix meeting as anything other than a cordial encounter, the lengthy tete-a-tete onboard Lynch's plane immediately raised questions about whether she – or the Justice Department – could be impartial in the Hillary Clinton investigation. Just days later, FBI Director James Comey called Hillary Clinton's actions "extremely careless" but declined to recommend charges.
"I wish I had seen around that corner and not had that discussion with the former president, as innocuous as it was, because it did give people concern," Lynch said on "State of the Union." "It did make people wonder, ‘Is it going to affect the investigation that's going on?' and that's not something that was an unreasonable question for anyone to ask."
but was portrayed as that, amirite?
Asked why Clinton sought out the meeting with Lynch, the outgoing attorney general declined to speculate.
"Well, I can't say what President Clinton saw or thought because I wasn't in communication with him before that," Lynch said. "I don't know what was in his mind."
"go ahead, pull the other one"