Amy Klobuchar defends Hillary Clinton amid email scandal
Democrats are increasingly vocal about their concern that Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign is suffering because of questions about her email, but she has a defender in Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a fellow Democrat.
"She's made it clear she has handed over the hard drive and 30,000-some emails and has been willing to go before a public hearing at Congress as well as debates," Klobuchar, who has already endorsed Clinton's 2016 bid, said Monday on "CBS This Morning." "I think there's going to be plenty of time to continue to discuss that, but key for me is really getting to the debate on real issues here with the economy, where our country is."
Clinton has also been dogged by the persistent questions about whether or not Vice President Joe Biden will jump into the Democratic nomination contest. Over the weekend, Biden met with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, the strongest sign yet that he is seriously considering another presidential bid.
Klobuchar acknowledged that Biden was meeting with people, but "no one knows" if he will run again.
"A lot of us love the vice president. I'm obviously a supporter of Hillary Clinton. I think she has some great ideas, and being right close to Iowa I've seen her campaign and how well-run it's been and, you know, we go from there," she said. If Biden runs, "I think that there will just be one more strong candidate in the race."
Klobuchar is a proponent of women in politics and said she hopes there is a woman on the ticket for both parties. Not only can young girls see they can get those kinds of jobs, she said, but women get more done.
"Certainly in the Senate, now that we have 20 women, it's made a big difference," she said. "The women in the Senate, and there's numbers to show it, have gotten a lot done. And we certainly need more results in government."
As for whether she might a woman on a presidential ticket in the near future, Klobuchar referenced her newest book, "The Senator Next Door," and said, "I like my job now."
The book has some personal anecdotes from her childhood and also talks about her relationship with her family. Klobuchar writes that one of her daughters called her a "submarine mom," and told her it meant, "'You lurk beneath the surface and come up unexpectedly.'"
"I think a lot of moms who are balancing a lot of things can relate to that. You can't always do it all, which is one of my points here," she said. She said she thought submarine mom was "about the best description I can get."
Klobuchar also weighed in on the Iran nuclear deal, which she predicted will pass when lawmakers will vote on it this September.
"I think that in the end it will be upheld, the agreement. We don't quite know where the votes are, but the way I look at it is it is the best option to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon," she said.