In a network dominated by liberals, Andrea Mitchell is Hillary Clinton's best water carrier. Staying true to form, Mitchell appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show on Tuesday after Hillary's press conference explaining why she used a personal email as opposed to the government account.  Mitchell placed blame on the press from the 1990s for Hillary creating the wall of secrecy which led to the email scandal, asserting:

MITCHELL: It seems rooted in the experience the Clintons had had in the '90s...and she was addressing the question of cattle futures and Whitewater and the Rose Law Firm and whether they had special benefits from and favors because of their position in Arkansas and she answered questions, you know, till the cows came home ...she yielded to advice to answer all those questions, they said to her, this will be the end of it. Just answer these questions and six months later Ken Starr had been appointed.

Mitchell refused to acknowledge that any possible Clinton wrongdoing may have led to the reporters' questions, only that she answered questions and Ken Starr showed up.

MADDOW: She's getting credit for that but in terms of the substantive story, what she addressed, what she advanced today on the story, do you think she made progress in terms of satisfying people as to what happened?

MITCHELL: I think even just coming out was progress. Her explanation that it was convenience was a little striking because there was guidance. It wasn't a rule, it wasn't a regulation, it certainly wasn't a law but there was guidance you should use the government email system. She used a personal email system. It seemed --I think because -- it seems rooted in the experience the Clintons had had in the '90s. This goes back to the last such press conference, not combative, it was in the state dining room in April of 1994; she was wearing a lovely pink sweater and she was addressing the question of cattle futures and Whitewater and the Rose Law Firm and whether they had special benefits from and favors because of their position in Arkansas and she answered questions, you know, till the cows came home and it was a day when there was a lot happening on Bosnia and a lot of other stories we were really more interested in covering but this was the first chance to interview the first lady about all of this and she yielded to advice to answer all those questions, they said to her, this will be the end of it. Just answer these questions and six months later Ken Starr had been appointed and there was a prosecutor so her experience has been if you answer questions they'll want more and they'll never be satisfied.

Perhaps the reporters refused to be satisfied because they didn't think they were getting the truth.