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(CNSNews.com) - As Hillary Clinton travels the country, demanding that Donald Trump apologize for "the terrible way he treats women," a newly released email from the WikiLeaks dump shows that Clinton's own campaign chairman wanted her to say "sorry" about using a private email server -- "without apologizing to the American people."



On Sept. 7, 2015 -- amid growing calls for Clinton to apologize for using a private email server as Secretary of State -- Clinton supporter Neera Tanden wrote to Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta:



This apology thing has become like a pathology. I can only imagine what's happening in the campaign.



Is there some way I can be helpful here? I know if I just email her she will dismiss it out of hand. Are there people she can hear from that will have some impact?



Randi? Maggie? I can call Randi. Let me know your thoughts.



Podesta responded a day later, on Sept. 8:



"You should email her. She can say she's sorry without apologizing to the American people. Tell her to say it and move on, why get hung on this."



Sure enough, in an interview with ABC's David Muir on Sept. 8, Clinton said: "As I look back at it now, even though it was allowed, I should have used two accounts. That was a mistake. I’m sorry about that. I take responsibility.”



Clinton also told Muir, "I’m sorry that it has, you know, raised all of these questions. I do take responsibility for having made what is clearly not the best decision.”



According to ABC News at the time, "This is the farthest Clinton has gone yet in offering an apology for her use of a private email server while Secretary of State."



The day before, Clinton told the Associated Press that she would not apologize because “what I did was allowed.”



It took Clinton almost a year to finally apologize: In an Aug. 24, 2016 interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, she said: "I have been asked many, many questions in the past year about emails and what I have learned is that when I try to explain what happened, it can sound like I am trying to excuse what I did. And there are no excuses. I want people to know that the decision to have a single email account was mine. I take responsibility for it. I apologize for it. I would certainly do differently if I could.”



At their Oct. 9 debate, Donald Trump was asked about his remarks caught on a 2005 videotape, released by NBC's "Access Hollywood," where he bragged in vulgar terms about being able to "do anything" with women because he's a star.

"This was locker room talk," Trump said at Sunday's debate. "I'm not proud of it. I apologize to my family. I apologize to the American people. Certainly I'm not proud of it. But this is locker room talk." Later, Trump repeated, "I apologize for those words. But it is things that people say." He then went on to discuss the things that President Bill Clinton did.



Moments later, Hillary Clinton told the debate audience, "But he never apologizes for anything to anyone.



"He never apologized to Mr. and Mrs. Khan, the Gold Star family whose son, Captain Khan, died in the line of duty in Iraq," Clinton said. "He never apologized to the distinguished federal judge who was born in Indiana, but Donald said he couldn't be trusted to be a judge because his parents were, quote, 'Mexican.'



"He never apologized to the reporter that he mimicked and mocked on national television...And he never apologized for the racist lie that President Obama was not born in the United States of America. He owes the president an apology, he owes our country an apology, and he needs to take responsibility for his actions and his words."