Hillary Clinton speaks in public for the first time, concerning email uproar

Clinton, the presumed front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, has come under heavy criticism for using a private email account for official business when she was the top U.S. diplomat.

There were concerns that she hid important facts about her tenure and put her correspondence at security risk.

In her defence, Clinton who claimed not to have violated government policy said it was done for convenience.

 "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," Clinton said at a press conference at the United Nations in New York.

"Looking back, it would've been better if I'd simply used a second email account and carried a second phone."