Will Hillary email controversy effect 2016?

Veteran Democratic staffer Jim Manley tells The Hill that Hillary Clinton’s State Department email controversy is not going away any time soon.

Manley, who has known Clinton for “a long time,” says there’s “no doubt” the presumptive Democratic presidential contender will be grappling with the fallout from her private email server for months to come.

{mosads}”Now that it’s in front of a couple congressional committees, it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. This is something they’ll have to deal with. … The question is is how House Republicans are going to try to deal with this in a serious way, or are they going to try to score cheap political points,” the former spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said in a video interview.

And longtime GOP congressional operative Ron Bonjean agrees that House Republicans should “ask serious questions” as they investigate Clinton’s use of personal email in her official role as secretary of State.

“What you don’t want to do is overreach on the email scandal. But what you want to do is ask serious questions, to get serious answers,” the former spokesman for then-Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) told The Hill.

Watch Manley and Bonjean discuss the email controversy and whether it will hurt Clinton’s likely presidential run in the video above.