Obama on Hillary Email Controversy: 'Accounts Just Not True'

President Barack Obama on Tuesday responded to a question about Hillary Clinton's email controversy by saying "the accounts that have been put out there are just not true."

Obama was asked if it was "distressing" that the FBI and State Department talked about proper classification levels for Clinton's emails and whether the appearance of impropriety — quid pro quo — warranted a look by the feds.

"I think you've heard directly from both the FBI and the State Department that the notion or the accounts that have been put out there are just not true," Obama said at the White House.

"You can question them again but based on what we have seen, heard, learned, some of the more sensational implications or appearances as you stated them aren't based on actual events and based on what actually happened," Obama said. "I think it was derived from overly broad characterizations of interactions between the State Department and the FBI that happened a lot and happened between agencies."

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