<p>Vice President Biden defended <a type="internal">Hillary Clinton&#8217;s decision to use a private email server as secretary of state</a> in an interview Thursday with &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; moderator John Dickerson.</p> 
<p>Dickerson asked Biden about a lesson from his Grandfather Finnegan: &#8220;Public servants are obliged to level with everybody, whether or not they&#8217;ll like what he, the public servant, has to say.&#8221;</p> 
<p>He asked the vice president, &#8220;Do you think that applies to Hillary Clinton&#8217;s dealing with this private server that she set up?&#8221;</p> 
<p>&#8220;Well, I think it&#8217;s a combination of a couple of things,&#8221; Biden replied. &#8220;One, I don&#8217;t think she understood the gravity of setting it up. She thought it was, &#8216;This is okay to do.&#8217;&#8221; Clinton has said she set up her private server for the sake of convenience, but she has since acknowledged that it was a mistake and that she would use the government system if she had to do it over again.</p> 
<p>Biden further suggested that Clinton may be a bit battle-scarred from her <a type="internal">long time in the public eye</a>, and he said that may have contributed to her initial clumsy response to the email controversy.</p> 
<p>&#8220;This woman has been so battered over 30 years,&#8221; Biden explained. &#8220;I think then when faced with, &#8216;This is a problem,&#8217; I think instead of just cutting it and dealing with it immediately, there&#8217;s always an inclination to overthink it.&#8221;</p> 
<p>The vice president also weighed in on his own future after his time in the Obama administration. &#8220;I&#8217;m not going away,&#8221; he began. &#8220;Everything from this issue of violence against women, to income inequality, to the cancer &#8216;moonshot,&#8217; I&#8217;m gonna devote the rest of my life to this.&#8221;</p> 
<p>&#8220;I have been so proud of being involved in public service that I&#8217;m not sure exactly how I&#8217;m gonna do it,&#8221; he added, &#8220;other than the structure of [the] American political system.&#8221;</p> 
<p>When Dickerson asked Biden what he&#8217;ll do on his final day in office, the vice president replied, &#8220;What I&#8217;m going to do is go home and begin to figure out what I do for the rest of my life.&#8221;</p> 
<p>More of Dickerson&#8217;s interview with the vice president will air Sunday. <a type="internal">Check your local listings for airtimes</a>.</p>
Biden: Clinton didn’t recognize “gravity” of setting up private email server