Hillary Clinton says she may have 'short-circuited' her response to a question about her emails last weekend but the point she intended to make stands - her public statements about the scandal were 'truthful' and FBI Director James Comey agrees.

'I was pointing out in both of those instances that Director Comey had said that my answers in my FBI interview were truthful. That's really the bottom line here,' she said, defending her claims in the interview with Fox News.

Clinton told a roomful of journalists, 'What I told the FBI, which he said was truthful, is consistent with what I have said publicly.'

'So I may have short-circuited, and for that, I will try to clarify because, I think Chris Wallace and I were probably talking past each other.'

Hillary Clinton says that she may have 'short-circuited' her response to a question about her emails last weekend but the point she intended to make stands - her public statements about the scandal were 'truthful' and FBI Director James Comey agrees

The former secretary of state then launched into a convoluted explanation of her behavior and how it fits into her past statements and FBI Director James Comey's testimony before Congress.

As she did on Fox News, Clinton asserted that Comey said her responses to the FBI when the investigatory agency interviewed here were 'truthful.'

'But I do think, you know having him say that my answers to the FBI were truthful, and then I should quickly add, what I said was consistent with what I had said publicly, and that's really...in my view, trying to tie both ends together.'

She also defended herself against claims that she sent and received classified information.

Of the 30,000 emails she provided the State Department, Comey said three contained classified markings.

At a congressional hearing on the matter, the FBI chief also said that those emails did not have the appropriate header, making it clear they were classified.

She pointed out that the State Department identified two of the three emails as having mistakenly contained classified markings. They were not 'in any way, confidential at the time that they were delivered,' she said.

'So that leaves the 100 out of 30,000 e-mails that Director Comey testified -- contained classified information but again, he acknowledged there were no markings on those 100 e-mails and so what we have here is pretty much what I have been saying throughout this whole year and -- and that is that I never sent or received anything that was marked "classified." '

Continuing, she said, 'Now if in retrospect, which is what is behind the 100 number, if in retrospect some different agencies said but it should have been -- although it wasn't -- it should have been that's what the debate about -- is about.

'But Director Comey said there was absolutely no intention, on my part, to either ignore or in any way dismiss the importance of those documents because they weren't marked "classified," so that would have hard to do.'

Twice in the interaction with NBC's Kristen Welker at a joint conference between the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Clinton expressed remorse for her actions.

'I regret using one account, I've taken responsibility for that but I'm pleased to be able to clarify and explain what I think the bottom line is on this,' she said at the end of the lengthy explanation of events.

Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace and Clinton sparred on last week's broadcast about the Democratic presidential candidate's emails. She claimed during the discussion that Comey has proclaimed in his testimony that she 'truthful' in her statements.

PINOCCHIO, PINOCCHIO, PINOCCHIO, PINOCCHIO: The Washington Post called Hillary Clinton a liar on Sunday after she claimed that the FBI director said she had been honest about her classified email scandal

Clinton received a dreaded 'four-Pinocchio' rating from the Washington Post's fact-checking division– the worst score possible – for suggesting that Comey had defended her honesty in the classified email scandal that has plagued her presidential campaign for more than 16 months.

Comey said in a July 7 congressional hearing that multiple statements the she made to the public were untrue.

In the rare Fox News Channel interview on Sunday, Clinton claimed that Comey 'said my answers were truthful, and what I’ve said is consistent with what I have told the American people.'

The Post's fact-checker pored over the record and found 'Clinton is cherry-picking statements by Comey to preserve her narrative' about why she sent and received classified documents on a private email server in her house.

This, the paper concluded, 'allows her to skate past the more disturbing findings of the FBI investigation.'

'THAT'S NOT TRUE': FBI Director James Comey testified in Congress last month that some of what Clinton told the public and the press about her unprotected private email setup was false

Clinton was never placed under oath during hours of interviews with federal investigators, and a transcript of those conversations has not been made public.

Her campaign manager, Robby Mook, told MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' on Monday that Clinton remained apologetic about using a private system for her only email address while she was secretary of state, but insisted she was blind to the fact that thousands of messages she sent and received contained state secrets.

'She said this was a mistake multiple times. She's apologized for it,' Mook said.

'What Director Comey said was that he believes there was no basis for her to believe that the emails in question, that you're referring to, that she had any reason to believe they were classified at the time she got them.'

Host Joe Scarborough shot back that Comey concluded that 'any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, should have known' that an unsecured system was the wrong place to have sensitive conversations.

The Post highlighted an exchange during the July 7 hearing between Comey and South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy that showed the FBI director disagreeing with what Clinton has said in public interviews.

PASS THE BUCK: During a Sunday TV interview, Clinton blamed career officials at the State Department for her classified email scandal

'Secretary Clinton said there was nothing marked classified on her emails, either sent or received. Was that true?' Gowdy asked?

'That’s not true,' Comey replied.

'Secretary Clinton said, "I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material." Was that true?' Gowdy continued?

'There was classified material emailed,' said Comey.

Comey ultimately decided not to recommend criminal charges to the Justice Department, despite calling her actions 'extremely reckless' and negligent.

Some Republicans cried that the fix was in, especially when it emerged that Attorney General Loretta Lynch had had a private meeting with Bill Clinton days earlier on an airport tarmac in Arizona.

WISHFUL SPIN: Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook insisted the FBI had concluded his boss had no reason to think the sensitive messages she was sending and receiving contained classified information

Clinton on Sunday ultimately blamed career officials at the State Department for her classified email scandal, suggesting they should have known better than to send her documents that could be considered classified.

'I relied on and had every reason to rely on the judgments of the professionals with whom I worked,' Clinton said on 'Fox News Sunday.'

'And so, in retrospect, maybe some people are saying, well, among those 300 people, they made the wrong call.

'At the time, there was no reason in my view to doubt the professionalism and the determination by the people who work every single day on behalf of our country.'

Clinton's decision to use only an unclassified email account, however, left her underlings with no other option when they wanted to communicate with her over long distances.

She originally claimed in a 2015 press conference that no classified materials at all were present on her server.