Here's what Clinton told Salinas:

It’s the same story. Um, just like previous secretaries of state, I used a personal email. Many people did. It was not at all unprecedented. I have turned over all my emails. No one else can say that. I have been incredibly open about doing that. I will continue to be open. And it’s not an issue that is going to affect either the campaign or my presidency.

Now, a few bits of context.

1. "Um, just like previous secretaries of state I used a personal email. Many people did. It was not at all unprecedented."

Er ... yes, previous secretaries of state have used personal email addresses while in office — Colin Powell most notably and extensively. But, and this is really important, Clinton is the first secretary of state to ever use a private email address exclusively to conduct her business. Period. That was and is unprecedented.

2. "I have turned over all my emails. … I have been incredibly open about doing that."

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Let's take the second sentence there first.

The inspector's report notes Clinton (a) shouldn't have exclusively used a private server for her email correspondence and (b) given that she did, should have turned over all of her correspondence to the State Department immediately after she left office in February 2013. Clinton eventually turned over a portion of her emails — more on that below — but didn't do so until December 2014 and "only after the State Department requested them as it prepared responses for the Republican-led House committee investigation into the 2012 attack on U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, Libya," according to a piece by WaPo's Roz Helderman and Tom Hamburger.

As for Clinton's assertion that she has turned over "all" of her emails, remember that Clinton deleted more than 31,000 emails that she deemed personal before ever turning anything over to the State Department. There was no third party brought in to make judgments on what was entirely private and what might be closer to the professional line. We have to, quite literally, take Clinton's word for it.

3. "I will continue to be open."

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Clinton refused to sit down with the inspector general at the State Department, which is not exactly a testament to her commitment to openness. According to news reports, she has not yet been interviewed by the FBI, but there is an assumption that talk is coming.

4. "It’s not an issue that is going to affect either the campaign or my presidency."

This is a subjective assertion and, therefore, sort of impossible to fully prove or disprove. But, there is plenty of polling evidence that suggests that voters aren't convinced that Clinton is being entirely truthful in relation to her email server.

When asked last September whether Clinton has "honestly disclosed the facts about her use of personal e-mail while secretary of state or has tried to cover up the facts," 54 percent of respondents in a Washington Post-ABC News poll chose the latter option. Just one in three (34 percent) said they believed she had honestly disclosed the facts.

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And, it's not a far leap from voters doubting Clinton's honesty about her email setup to broader doubts about her veracity. Large majorities of Americans regularly tell pollsters that they don't view Clinton as either honest or trustworthy — a massive hurdle that Clinton will have to clear between now and November.