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Former President Bill Clinton is staying out of the controversy over Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email address on a private server.

Asked by CNN’s Dan Merica on Sunday in Miami whether his wife has been treated fairly, Clinton said: “I’m not the one to judge that. I have an opinion but I have a bias.”

“I shouldn’t be making news on this,” he said.

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Clinton’s comments come as other Democrats call on Clinton to answer questions about why she took the unusual approach to email, which had the effect of giving her extraordinary control over what later became public record and what remained private.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, said that Clinton’s status as the “pre-eminent political figure” in American politics requires her to explain herself.

“She needs to step up and come out and say what the situation is,” Feinstein said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “From this point on, the silence is going to hurt her.”

President Barack Obama weighed in, too, saying he’s “glad” that Clinton has asked the State Department to release the 55,000 pages of emails she submitted – after selecting the ones related to her official business.

“The policy of my administration is to encourage transparency, which is why my emails, the BlackBerry I carry around, all those records are available and archived,” Obama said in an interview with CBS News. “I’m glad that Hillary’s instructed that those emails about official business need to be disclosed.”

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who was largely responsible for the overhaul of the State Department to modern computer technology, took a pass at criticizing Clinton’s private email use.

“I had my own email account and the reason I did it was because we were fundamentally changing the information system at the State Department. We needed to open it up and bring it into the 21st century,” he told CNN on Sunday.

He declined to comment on Clinton’s use of private emails.

“That is for Mrs. Clinton to talk about,” he said.