article_snippet: The White House confirmed on Monday that Obama knew about Clinton private email address because Obama emailed Secretary Clinton'
  Obama at Hillary Clinton's private email address during Secretary Clinton'
  Obama tenure of secretary of state.
article_snippet: When Obama said in an interview that aired Sunday that Obama found out Clinton used a private email account to conduct official business at 'the same time as everybody else learned it through news reports,' what Obama meant was that was the first Obama'd heard of Secretary Clinton'
  Obama exclusive use of use of personal email and of Secretary Clinton'
  Obama private server, Obama spokesman clarified this afternoon. '
article_snippet: The president, as I think many people expected, did over the course of Obama first several years in office trade emails with Obama secretary of state,' White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters. '
article_snippet: : Obama told CBDS News Obama learned Clinton had used a private email account for  state business during Clinton tenure as Secretary of State when news reports surfaced .
article_snippet: In an interview with CBDS Newsduring Obama trip to Selma, Alabama, Obama had defended former Secretary of State Clinton and applauded former Secretary of State Clinton decision to release the emails. '
article_snippet: Pressed by reporters to acknowledge that Obama had in fact emailed Obama secretary of state during Hillary four-year tenure,Obama spokesman said Monday, 'The point that Obama was making is not that Obama didn’t know Secretary Clinton’s email address, Obama did.' '
article_snippet: But Obama was not aware of the details of how that email address and that server had been set up or how Secretary Clinton and Clinton team were planning to comply with the Federal Records Act,' Earnest explained.
article_snippet: Earnest said Earnest did not know when the White House's Office of Legal Council first knew of Clinton's private email and server system. '
highlights_snippet: Obama said in an interview that Obama learned Clinton used a private email account to conduct official business at 'the same time as everybody else'
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highlights_snippet: The point that the president was making is not that the president didn’t know Secretary Clinton’s email address, Obama did,' Obama's spokesman said .
  
highlights_snippet: But Obama was not aware of the details of how that email address and that server had been set up or how Secretary Clinton'
  Obama said Secretary Clinton'
  Obama was glad Clinton wanted Secretary Clinton'
  Obama emails to be released and praised