Members of the Morning Joe panel tried their best to block and tackle for Hillary given the revelation that the person who set up her server has been granted immunity. Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey said the most troubling issue is the way things got from the SIPRnet--a Pentagon system used for exchanging Secret information--to Hillary's server.

Mukasey explained that someone must have taken something off SIPRnet and either transcribed it or summarized it and then put it on her server. Politico's Jim VandeHei suggested hopefully that if charges are brought it would be against the "staffers" who did that, rather than Hillary. Mukasey batted that away: "if she ordered that that be done . . . if she knew that that was the way it was being done, that it is being done on her order, that's a problem."

Before VandeHei, Mike Barnicle did his best to diminish the problem. Barnicle bemoaned "overclassification" of material as top secret. Michael Mukasey shot that down. Yes, there's overclassification, but when you're talking about human information [spying] and satellite information, "that's not over-classification." He also mentioned that there were 22 items on Hillary's server so secret they could not be described to the public.

Joe Scarborough later scolded Donny Deutsch for his knee-jerk defense of Hillary

The Clinton campaign and its MSM acolytes can dial the smoke-and-dust machine up to 11 if it wants. But if Hillary or someone very close to her is indicted, game over.