article_snippet: (CNN)President Barack Obama said Saturday that (CNN)President Barack Obama learned Hillary Clinton exclusively used a private email account for government business "through news reports" and was glad (CNN)President Barack Obama former secretary of state asked for those emails to be made public.
article_snippet: The policy of my administration is to encourage transparency, which is why my emails, the BlackBerry I carry around, all those records are available and archived," (CNN)President Barack Obama said in an interview with CBS News.
article_snippet: I'm glad that Hillary's instructed that those emails about official business need to be disclosed.
article_snippet: Hillary Clinton used a private email account -- housed in servers at Hillary Clinton New York home -- for the four years Hillary Clinton served as America's top diplomat, a practice that skirted legal standards in place and has some Republicans calling for investigations.
article_snippet: On Wednesday night, his former secretary of state tweeted that Hillary "asked State to release" Hillary Clinton email, a request accepted by the department.
article_snippet: (CNN)President Barack Obama backed Hillary Clinton's request, telling CBS that (CNN)President Barack Obama thinks "the fact that Hillary Clinton is putting them forward will allow us to make sure that people have the information people need.
highlights_snippet: President pleased Hillary Clinton emails will become part of public record .
  