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Clinton denies she was talking about Bill with her 'off the reservation' remark

Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that she wasn't referring to her husband when she said last week that she had "a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get off the reservation in the way they behave and how they speak."

Clinton said in an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell that she was thinking about her 2000 campaign for the Senate, when she faced former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and then former Rep. Rick Lazio.

"So I have political experience in dealing with candidates who think they're going to score points by being either negative about women in general or about me in particular," Clinton said.

She said she was also referring to her experience with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who she said blamed her "personally for demonstrations in Russia because of his rigged election."

"So I do have some experience in dealing with this kind of visceral, really mean-spirited attacks," Clinton said.

Her previous comment came in an interview with CNN after Jake Tapper asked whether Clinton had learned anything from the Republican primary about how to face Trump.

MSNBC's Mitchell pointed out that Trump had lunch with an author who has written about the Clintons and he "appears to be ready to dump a whole lot of stuff on you."

"Well, join the crowd. People have been dumping stuff on me for 25 years," Clinton said. "I'm not going to be responding to his every insult and attack."

Also during the interview, Mitchell asked whether the FBI has contacted Clinton to set up an interview regarding her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. Clinton said the FBI had not reached out to her.

