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Hillary Clinton listens to another panelist during an event at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP hide caption

Hillary Clinton listens to another panelist during an event at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank.

South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy's Select Committee on Benghazi announced Friday in a statement that Hillary Clinton had wiped her private email server clean; that the committee is getting no additional emails from her; that it's leaving open the possibility of a third-party investigation; and that Republicans are promising to bring Clinton in for more questioning.

Much of what the committee reported was already known. But the drama is likely to continue to play out with questions of what she knew and when she knew it over the next year, smack in the middle of a presidential campaign.

To be sure, the email controversy has not been good for Clinton. Instead of sitting back, watching Republicans duke it out, working on her presidential launch and trying to tailor her message, she has had to defend her exclusive use of private email to conduct business as secretary of state.

But for all the attention it has gotten, not much has changed in the polls.

In the nearly three weeks since Clinton's hotly watched news conference at the United Nations, there have been three major polls conducted dealing with Clinton and the emails specifically CNN/ORC, Reuters/Ipsos and CBS.

CNN's, conducted March 13 to 15 less than a week after Clinton's news conference showed that Clinton continued to lead Republican contenders in numbers similar to her lead before the news broke, and she saw just a slight decline in her favorability ratings from the prior poll.

She wins hypothetical head-to-head matchups with Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, defeating them 55 to 40 percent. She beats former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, 55 to 41 percent; Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, 55 to 42 percent; Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, 54 to 43 percent; and neurosurgeon Ben Carson, 56 to 40 percent.

Her favorability stood at 53 percent positive, 44 percent negative, down from 59 to 38 percent in November. But that plus 9 rating was better than the entire Republican field. Jeb Bush, for example, was minus 16 (31 to 47 percent), Walker was even (21 to 21) and Christie was minus 19 (25 to 44).

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Hillary Clinton's Email Controversy Hasn't Changed Much For 2016

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ONE EMAIL FROM OBLIVION: HILLARYS BIG BET ON SECRET SERVERWith the revelation that presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton wiped clean any trace of tens of thousands of emails from her time as secretary of state, the 2016 presidential campaign enters a new phase. With a move as audacious as any in the evidence destruction game, Clinton has set her candidacy dangling. Clinton told reporters that the more than 30,000 emails she ordered deleted would have exonerated her, but she destroyed them in the interest of her and her familys privacy. By her reasoning, there is nothing related to emails with foreign powers who donated money to her family foundation. No directions to staffers about dealing with political controversies. No emails to her political network and friends about government business. Nothing official or of a foreign-policy nature. At all. Just yoga lessons and bridal bouquets. And if thats the case, she has nothing to worry about.

[Fox News: Senate Republicans are renewing efforts to learn why Huma Abedin, a top assistant to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was allowed to keep working at the agency under a special, part-time status while also being employed at a politically-connected consulting firm.]

But if there are things that Clinton wants to keep from congressional investigators, she had better hope that her deletion crew bleached every corner of the digital world. Because if even a pixel of something Clinton should have handed over is unearthed in her domain or in a musty folder in someone elses email system, Clinton would be a political goner. Her bold move to destroy emails even after being asked for them by the government would leave her in major-league trouble in the middle of her second presidential run. And Clinton has placed herself in the digital shark cage. If theres anything amiss, shed better hope that her IT guys are the very best on the business.

[A reset, you might even say - NYT: [Clinton]told a representative of a group of prominent Jewish leaders on Sunday that she wanted to put the relationship between the United States and Israel back on constructive footing, the representative said.]

2016 DEMOCRATIC POWER INDEX: OMALLEY SHOWS MUSCLE Presidency not a crown - WaPo: Former Maryland governor Martin OMalley took a swipe at likely 2016 contenders Hillary Rodham Clinton and Jeb Bush on Sunday, saying that the presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families. Appearing on ABCs This Week, OMalley, who is weighing a possible run against Clinton for the Democratic nomination, called the presidency an awesome and sacred trust to be earned and exercised on behalf of the American people. OMalley who at times has been reluctant to take on Clinton directly declined to say whether he thought the former secretary of state would stand up to Wall Street and other special interests. I dont know where she stands, he told host George Stephanopoulos. Will she represent a break with the failed policies of the past? Well, I dont know.

I think that our country always benefits from new leadership and new perspectives. Former Gov. Martin OMalley, D-Md., on ABCs This Week

2016 Democratic Power Index -1) Hillary Clinton; 2) Martin OMalley [+2]; 3)Joe Biden [-1];4)Elizabeth Warren[-1]; 5)Jim Webb

[Watch Fox: Chris Stirewalt joinsThe Real Story in the 2 p.m. ET hour with the latest on whos up and whos down in the 2016 Power Index.]

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Its a near certainty that a few weeks from now Hillary Clinton will be a full-fledged presidential candidate, campaigning through New Hampshire and Iowa with a vast press corps in tow.

Some politicians relish the campaign trail: the rope lines, rallies and photo ops. For Mrs. Clinton, its more of an ordeal to be borne. One veteran of her past races said that if Mrs. Clinton had her druthers shewould delay entering the race as long as possible, perhaps waiting until deep into the summer.

Yet if the fallout fromstoriesabout her email practices as secretary of state and foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation have made anything clear, its that Mrs. Clinton cant afford to wait.If shes going to run, she needs to start the race. Now.

Mrs. Clinton had a rough winter and theabsence of a campaign operation made matters worse. She had a bare-bones press operation to deal with an avalanche of media inquiries. Other than through paid speeches, she had scant opportunity to change the subject and focus attention on the issues that shed prefer to be front and center: jobs, wages, the middle class and equal pay for women.Republicans, meantime, are casting her absence from the campaign as a sign shes ducking tough questions.

While Mrs. Clinton dealt with questions about computer servers and the finer points of public record retention law, one potential rival for the party nomination, former Maryland Gov. Martin OMalley, drew a standing ovation during a recent Iowa speech warning about Wall Street excesses.

Mr. OMalley seems ready for a fight. Speaking to ABC on Sunday he took a genuine swipe at Mrs. Clinton (and Republican Jeb Bush, too), saying the presidency isnt a crown to be passed between two families.

Maybe this isnt a test run for 2020 or 2024. Maybe Mr. OMalley wants to run and win.

Polls show he has a long way to go to catch Mrs. Clinton, but hes on the trail and shes not a reality that could make an impression on Iowa Democrats eager to see and hear from the candidates.

I think our country always benefits from new leadership and new perspectives, Mr. OMalley toldABCs George Stephanopoulos.

Absent a campaign team, Mrs. Clinton has relied on a few surrogates from the 1990s to defend her amid the email and foundation revelations.This hasnt gone so well.

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Hillary Clinton closing remarks taken from an evidenced based discussion on improving our cities and communities. The meeting was hosted by The Center for American Progress.

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