Jon Stewart: Hillary Can Win in 2016, Then Pardon Herself for Email Gaffe

"Daily Show" host Jon Stewart wasn't so certain that all of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails have been turned over to investigators, but he was pretty certain the scandal won't hurt her presidential ambitions.

"Future President Hillary Clinton may have to pardon former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton," Stewart said opening Wednesday show.

At first, Stewart played it as though the fact that Clinton used a personal email address during her tenure was no big deal, but slowly added press accounts of how she was breaking State Department rules and how it was aides who decided which emails should be turned over and which were personal.

"That is why Doritos doesn't get to decide which ingredients consumers need to know about, or why you don't get to tell the cops which pocket to search," he said.

He then played a clip of State Department Deputy Spokeswoman Marie Harf telling a press briefing that Clinton had taken steps to preserve her email records by providing the State Department with 55,000 pages of them.

"I think 55,000 is a pretty big number," Harf said.

"It is a big number," Stewart agreed, but said there are bigger ones. "A million, and it's not as big as the number Clinton actually had. That is the crazy thing about numbers. … You can always top them."

But Stewart laughed off any suggestion the scandal would keep her from getting the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016.

"Do you think maybe a wrong email address-gazi will be a big boost to her Democratic primary rival TBD?" he said. "Or perhaps this will affect Hillary Clinton's standing with Republicans in the general election, who pretty much already believe her and her spouse to be treasoning, murderous grift-asauruses?"

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