White House Confirms Obama Emailed Clinton at Personal Address

The White House confirmed Monday that President Barack Obama emailed Hillary Clinton on her private email account while she served as Secretary of State for his administration.

White House spokesperson Josh Earnest confirmed Monday that the president communicated with Clinton via her private email while she served as Secretary of State, implying that the Commander-in-Chief was aware of Clinton's use of the private email.

Earnest was clarifying the president's knowledge of Clinton's email after Obama told CBS over the weekend that he has only known that Clinton used a personal email during her time as Secretary of the State after The New York Times reported on it recently.

 "The president, as I think many people expected, did over the course of his first several years in office trade emails with his secretary of state," Earnest told reporters.

"The point that the president was making is not that he didn't know Secretary Clinton's email address. He did. But he was not aware of the details of how that email address and that server had been set up, or how Secretary Clinton and her team were planning to comply with the Federal Records Act."

Clinton has been embroiled in a controversy after The New York Times revealed that the former First Lady had a personal email domain known as "clintonemail.com" set up at her home and on her phone to communicate during her time as Secretary of State.

In light of the controversy regarding transparency in government business, Clinton has agreed to turn over her emails to the State Department for review.