“I will continue to, you know, be as forthcoming as I can and my answer that I first gave more than a year ago, I stand by,” Hillary Clinton said. | AP Photo Clinton: I was 'eager' to meet with FBI

Hillary Clinton, in her first remarks since being interviewed by the FBI on Saturday, refused to speculate on the investigation's outcome or timeline to conclusion, but said she had been “eager” to sit down with federal investigators.

“It was something I had offered to do since last August. I’ve been eager to do it, and I was pleased to have the opportunity to assist the department in bringing its review to a conclusion,” the presumptive Democratic nominee told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd in a phone interview.


Clinton met with the FBI on Saturday for 3½ hours at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The interview, which the campaign said was voluntary, comes as the agency continues its investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state.

Clinton said she has “no knowledge of any timeline. This is entirely up to the department.”

Todd pressed Clinton on how she believes she didn’t violate the State Department’s policies. She stuck with the message that she and her campaign have pushed for many months.

“I never received nor sent any material that was marked classified, and there is a process for the review of material before it is released to the public and there were decisions made that material should be classified. I do call that retroactively classifying. So therefore it would not be publicly released. But that doesn’t chance [sic] the fact as I’ve explained many times,” she said.

Clinton added that she’s “been answering questions now for over a year” and has cooperated with the investigation by releasing tens of thousands of emails to the public.

“I will continue to, you know, be as forthcoming as I can, and my answer that I first gave more than a year ago, I stand by,” she said.

Todd also questioned Clinton about the meeting that took place earlier this week between her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch on a Phoenix airport tarmac.

Both Bill Clinton and Lynch have said since the meeting that they wouldn’t do it again and have regrets about how it was construed.

“It was a short, chance meeting that occurred, and they did not discuss the Department of Justice’s review,” Hillary Clinton said Saturday. “And I know that some, nonetheless, have viewed the meeting in a different light, and both the attorney general and my husband have said they would not do it again, and the bottom line, for me, is I respect the professionalism and integrity of the officials at the Department of Justice handling this process.”

The interview closed with Todd saying that the Clinton campaign had restricted the length of the interview to five minutes.