During an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday, veteran journalist Bob Woodward expressed his frustration with Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail system and her continued refusal to turn over her server “reminds me of the Nixon tapes.”

Woodward proclaimed it was “extraordinary” that of the 60,000 e-mails on Clinton’s server she “has said 30,000 of them, half, were personal and they were deleted. Who decided that? What's on those e-mails?”

The veteran journalist said he “would love to have all 60,000 read them, it would be a character study about her personal life and, also, what she did as Secretary of State” and then proceeded to note that Clinton’s e-mail setup has caused outrage within the Intel community:

You've got the FBI, you've got the inspector generals, you've got lots of people in government who are furious, because they spent hours being trained, like the example of Madeleine Albright. You have to be careful about this. Hillary Clinton went in -- I mean, what was the origin? Who knew about this idea of using a private server? When I first read about that, it's unimaginable.

Later in the segment, Woodward observed that Clinton’s refusal to turn over her server to the FBI was Nixonesque, and although she eventually handed it over, its contents will likely not be “pretty”:

So you've got a massive amount of data. It, in a way, reminds me of the Nixon tapes. Thousands of hours of secretly recorded conversations that Nixon thought were exclusively hers, his, that he was not going to get them. Hillary Clinton initially took that position. I'm not turning this over. There's going to be no cooperation. Now they're cooperating. But, this is -- this has to go on a long, long time. And the answers are probably not going to be pretty.

While Woodward did note that currently there are no charges against Clinton, he did stress that it was dishonest for her to claim that the investigation into her server was purely partisan:

[F]or Hillary Clinton to go out, as she did, in recent days and say, this is politics. This is dirty politics. They're trying to smear me in an unfair way, that dog will not hunt, at all. You have got Barack Obama's government now investigating her and looking at this.

See relevant transcript below.