Story highlights Bill Clinton dismissed the email controversy swirling around his wife

Republicans are using it against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the presidential campaign

Las Vegas (CNN) The Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" began to play -- Bill Clinton's cue to get off the stage.

But the former president, addressing a gathering of the Asian American Journalists Association here at the Caesar's Palace hotel, wouldn't budge, insisting over the music that he wanted to take one more question.

"Let me answer it real quick and I'll go," Clinton said. "They want me to go, I would stay."

The questioner identified himself as a Democrat who loved Clinton as president and is supporting his wife, Hillary Clinton, in the 2016 election. But, he wanted to know: Why should Americans trust the Democratic nominee when she lied about her emails?

"Wait a minute," Bill Clinton said. "It's not true."

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