Clinton camp sounded alarm over emails to Obama: 'We need to clean this up'

Hillary Clinton's campaign sounded the alarm over President Obama's statement to the press in March 2015 that he learned about Clinton's private email use from news reports, emails published by WikiLeaks on Tuesday show.

Josh Schwerin, a campaign spokesman, sent an email to high-level staffers informing them of Obama's comments just a few days after the New York Times exposed Clinton's private email use for the first time.

"POTUS just said he found out HRC was using her personal email when he saw it in the news," Schwerin wrote, using Clinton's initials.

Cheryl Mills, a board member at the Clinton Foundation, worried about the implications of Obama's claim in a subsequent email to John Podesta, Clinton's campaign chair.

"[W]e need to clean this up - he has emails from her - they do not say state.gov," Mills said.