During a hastily arranged press conference at the UN this morning, Hillary Clinton broke her silence on the controversy about her use of private e-mail for official secretary of state correspondence. She was at the UN to give a speech about women's rights around the world, and after the speech was done, she returned to the podium (at the 57:00 mark below) to bring up a matter "in the news" that wasn't the matter in the news everyone's been talking so much about. (It was the letter from Republican senators to Iran.) Then she said: "I would be pleased to talk more about this important matter, but I know there have been questions about my e-mail."

“I did not e-mail any classified material to anyone on my e-mail. I fully complied with every rule,” said Clinton, even though she clearly hadn’t.

The White House has stated Clinton was acting outside of administration guidelines by using private or commercial e-mail for government correspondence. Clinton says using her private e-mail "was allowed by the state department."

Her story is that she didn't want to use two different devices. “Looking back, it would have been better for me to use two separate phones and two e-mail accounts. I thought using one device would be simpler, and obviously it hasn’t worked out that way.”

Does anyone else have multiple e-mail accounts set up on their iPhone? Just me?

Before handing over her communications to the US State Department, the 2016 hopeful went ahead and deleted everything she pleased, but assured inquiring journalists that she only got rid of e-mails “within the scope of my personal privacy.” Among the personal e-mails Clinton says she deleted were exchanges about wedding planning and "yoga schedules." Please pause here to picture the former secretary of state holding happy baby pose for three breaths.

Clinton, who's railed against Edward Snowden for what he did to educate America about the lack of privacy under NSA oversight, then had the gall to say, “No one wants their personal e-mails made public, and I think most people understand that and respect that privacy.”

Here's a transcript of the press conference.

“Hillary Clinton’s response to her e-mail scandal is already turning into another exercise in limiting transparency,” said Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Short, in a statement. “She and her team had perhaps hundreds — if not thousands — of options for a venue for today’s press conference on her secret e-mail scandal, but Clinton instead chose one of the most difficult places for reporters to get access to: the UN.”

Short has a point. Clinton’s office didn’t announce her press conference until 11:30 this morning. Despite the availability of other more easily accessible locations, they held the conference at the highly secure and hard-to-gain-access-to UN, where one staffer was on hand to issue clearance badges to the line of reporters that formed around the block. Clinton kept her talk to exactly 20 minutes, opened by saying here is what I want you to know, answered every single question asked by recapitulating what it is she wants us to know, and issued an FAQ to control the conversation.