Huckabee: Hillary Mum on Emails 'Cause Criminal Trial Likely Awaits

Hillary Clinton is dodging questions about her use of a private email server because her statements "could in fact be incriminating" and be used against her, GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said Friday.

"When you have classified information, people have gone to prison for less than that," the former Arkansas governor told Fox News' "Fox & Friends." "If in fact that happened, we're talking about a very serious issue."

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According to a Reuters examination of just some of the emails that have been released, at least 30 email threads from 2009, representing scores of individual emails, have been discovered to include what the State Department's own "Classified" stamps identify as so-called 'foreign government information.' The U.S. government defines this as any information, written or spoken, provided in confidence to U.S. officials by their foreign counterparts.

Huckabee on Friday also criticized the former secretary of state for calling the controversy about her emails a partisan attack, saying that the Clintons have used that excuse to respond to controversies ever since they took the public stage.

"This has been a tactic they've effectively used," said Huckabee, "but this time it's not a political issue. This is a legal issue."

And as the matter grows, it will make people start to ask why there is a "different set of rules for Hillary" than for everyone else, Huckabee said.

"If a cop pulls you over to give you a ticket, you're going to get a ticket," he told the program. "If a former secretary of state and senator, the candidate for president, violates the law and protocol of her own agency with regards to classified emails and doesn't get busted, you're going to have more outrage across this country. That's what you're seeing."

Huckabee, who was in Israel in recent days, also spoke out about the nuclear agreement with Iran, questioning the news about side deals and a provision that allows Iran to self-inspect one of its own power plants.

"Putting the Iranians in a position where they get to self-inspect, this is [like] putting a mass murderer in charge of managing a gun store," said Huckabee. "This is absurd. All we have done is we've put a longer fuse on the bomb but left the bomb in place to go off. "

Huckabee is hopeful that Democrats will follow New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, who came out this week against the Iran agreement.

"Will they follow their constituents?" Huckabee said. "The people they work for are against this deal. Let's hope they know who they work for, [who] their boss is, and it isn't President Barack Obama, it's the people."

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