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The former secretary of state and presumed Democratic frontrunner has come under fire for her use of personal email at the State Department. She addressed the controversy head-on for the first time on Tuesday, insisting she didn't break any rules and that she's taken every necessary step to ensure the public has access to her work emails.

Frustration has been building for days among some of Clinton's deep-pocketed supporters over what they perceive to be a scandal hyped up by Republicans -- as well as the press. In a sign of Clinton's strong ties with the Democratic elite and her dominance in the Democratic field as she heads into 2016, her top donors and supporters are coming out to publicly defend the former secretary of state as well as her team's handling of the issue.

There is no "scandal," said Alan Patricof, founder of the venture capital firm Greycroft and a Clinton friend and donor.

"I don't perceive any concern among the donor community who recognize that this is just one of many issues that gets blown out of proportion when it relates to a Clinton," Patricof told CNN. "This will all pass when it is realized it is just a tempest in a teapot."

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But one well-connected private sector observer based in New York said some donors are "very worried" about just how long the email scandal will haunt Clinton.

"It is a huge distraction and will take a long time to resolve," the person said. The main concern among top allies, they added, is that the issue "will be unresolved story for months."

Former Michigan Gov. Jim Blanchard, who served on Clinton's finance committee in 2008 and has publicly vowed to donate to Clinton's next campaign, suggested that the press has played no small role in hyping up the controversy.

"The upcoming campaign will have to focus on jobs, economic growth and quality of life," Blanchard said. "And, of course, the opposition needs to be the right wing (Republicans), not the press."

Taking questions at the United Nations on Tuesday, Cilnton explained that during her time at the State Department, she chose to use her personal email account rather than her government address for the sake of "convenience."

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitted Tuesday that she discarded tens of thousands of emails from a private server kept at her New York home.

In her first extended public remarks about her exclusive use of a personal email account to conduct government business, Clinton was adamant that she complied with all applicable rules and said she went above and beyond by handing over some 30,000 work-related emails to the State Department.

But her admission that she did not turn over roughly half the messages in her private account and will not submit them to independent scrutiny will likely fan the controversy.

At the end, I chose not to keep my private personal emailsemails about planning Chelseas wedding or my mothers funeral arrangements, condolence notes to friends as well as yoga routines, family vacations, the other things you typically find in inboxes, Clinton said, saying attorneys she paid categorized the correspondence.

They were personal and private, she added. They had nothing to do with work. I didnt see any reason to keep them.

Under fire from pundits and political critics, Clinton called the unusual press conferencethe most significant since she left officeto defend herself.

The former Secretary of State said that when she began the job, she made the decision to use her private address as a matter of convenience. She noted the vast majority of her work emails were sent to government employees on their official work accounts, and as a result, those messages are preserved and archived as public records on the other end.

I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and personal emails instead of two, she said. Looking back, she added, it might have been smarter to have two devices from the very beginning.

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The State Department said Tuesday that it is reviewing by hand 55,000 pages of emails supplied by Clinton. The Department will release emails from that cache on a publicly accessible website once it redacts information not covered by the Freedom of Information Act. The process is expected to take several months.

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A source close to Hillary Clinton tells CBS News that the former secretary of state will speak publicly about her use of a private email account, rather than a government address while she was secretary of state. Last week, the New York Times first reported that she used only her personal email account while she was secretary of state.

Reporters are being told that Clinton will talk about the issue at the United Nations this afternoon, where Clinton is speaking at an women's empowerment event. CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett says that while using the United Nations as a venue for her first comments has created its own set of logistical challenges -- like reporter access and space limitations -- Clinton's advisers concluded her continued silence was fueling her opposition, and the time had come for her to speak on her own behalf.

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The news about Clinton's email use - and the fact that she reportedly used a "homebrewed" server to run the account -- has sparked a firestorm in Washington. Critics have raised questions about the security of the account, and a committee investigating the 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya has issued a subpoena for "all communications" Clinton had that were related to the attacks.

Even Democrats have begun to suggest that Clinton's silence is becoming a liability. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said on "Meet the Press" Sunday that Clinton "needs to step up and come out and state exactly what the situation is ... I think, at this point, from this point on, the silence is going to hurt her."

In a scathing editorial published Monday, the Washington Post said the incident does not reflect well on how Clinton would respond to legitimate questions as president.

"Dispatching friendly politicians and former aides to television news shows to dismiss the issue as just politics does not help her cause. If she is elected president, can Americans expect a similar response when she faces difficult questions -- one 26-word tweet and a cloud of obfuscation from her friends?" the Post wrote. "If she wants to demonstrate the strength of character and judgment required to be president, Ms. Clinton should hold a news conference and answer all the unanswered questions about her e-mails."

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