Hilary Clinton Confesses She Should Have Used Two Phones, Now She Does [VIDEO]

Hillary Clinton addressed the issue surrounding the use of her government email address along with the personal one she used while secretary of state at her first press conference since the controversy erupted earlier this month.

State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that her attorneys reviewed more than 62,000 emails she sent while in office to find work-related correspondence to comply with a department request to turn over records from her time in office.

"I fully complied by every rule I was governed by," Clinton said in a 20-minute news conference that marked her first comments on the matter.

The controversy has upended Clinton's careful blueprint for the rollout of her 2016 presidential campaign. The clear front-runner for the Democratic nomination, Clinton had planned to spend March touting her work on women's issues and giving a handful of paid speeches before announcing her candidacy in early April.

The controversy has upended Clinton's careful blueprint for the rollout of her 2016 presidential campaign.

"I opted for convenience to use my personal email account, which was allowed by the State Department, because I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two," she said. "Looking back, it would have been better if I'd simply used a second email account and carried a second phone, but at the time, this didn't seem like an issue."

Clinton said her server would remain private. She said she had exchanged 60,000 emails, half of which were personal and were discarded.

"I had no reason to save them," Clinton said of the personal emails. She described the destroyed communications as ones related to her daughter's wedding, her mother's funeral, her yoga routine and other matters.

"Everything that could be in any way connected to work is now in the possession of the State Department," Clinton said.