MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: Well, Hillary Clinton is apparently not the first secretary of state to receive classified e-mails on a personal account. The State Department inspector general now says Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice's staffers also received classified information on email private accounts. CNN justice reporter Evan Perez live in Washington with more on this. Interesting, Evan.</s>EVAN PEREZ, CNN JUSTICE REPORTER: Good morning, Michaela. We're talking about two e-mails that Colin Powell received on his private e-mail account that are now deemed classified. And 10 classified e-mails by close aides to Condoleezza Rice when she was secretary of state. Powell and Rice dispute these findings by the State Department's internal watchdog. Powell issued this statement saying, quote, "I have reviewed the messages and I do not see what makes them classified. If the department wishes to say a dozen years later that they should have been classified, that is an open that I do not share." Rice's office in Stanford University says she never used e-mail at all and the messages in question didn't include intelligence information when they were sent to her aides. Clinton says that the report supports exactly what she's been talking about, this email controversy. Take a listen.</s>HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Now, you have these people in the government doing the same thing to Secretary Powell and Rice's aides, which is I never sent or received any classified material. They are retroactively classifying it. I agree completely with Secretary Powell who said today this is an absurdity.</s>PEREZ: And, Alisyn, it bears reminding everyone here that unlike her predecessors, Clinton set up a private server that handled all of her government e-mails.</s>ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: Yes, that is an important distinction. Thanks so much, Evan. Well, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders sparring over Wall Street during last night's debate. Sanders attacking Clinton's financial ties, Clinton accusing him of, quote, "an artful smear". How damaging are these Wall Street attacks? We'll explore that.
Powell Received Classified Emails on Personal Account