'What frustrates you the most about perceptions about you?'

NBC’s Lester Holt landed an interview with Hillary Clinton Friday — just as the State Department announced 22 of her e-mails cannot be released to the public because they’re top secret – but chose to avoid breaking any new ground on the growing scandal.

Instead Holt focused on Clinton’s critics, asking at one point, “Do you get your feelings hurt sometimes?”


“It’s not pleasant,” Clinton replied. “I’ve been to subjected to all kinds of attacks.”

Holt followed up: “What frustrates you the most about perceptions about you?”


The NBC newsman also told Clinton that when a voter said “young people don’t trust you,” he “winced.”

When Clinton attacked Sen. Sanders, saying unlike the Vermont senator she’s not offering “pie in the sky” proposals, Holt jumped in, asking, ”Is Senator Sanders speaking in pie-in-the-sky terms?”

The only question bordering on tough — was her fundraiser this week at a financial services firm a mistake? — Holt presented as an opportunity to hit back at Bernie Sanders.