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Official: Hillary Clinton snapped because question was sexist

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visits a

Photo credit: Getty Images Photo | Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visits a house under under construction in Khayelitsha, a little more than 15 miles from Cape Town, South Africa on Aug. 8, 2009. Clinton has called for a broad alliance with South Africa during her welcome in Africa's richest nation from President Jacob Zuma. (AFP/Getty Images Photo)

The State Department struggled Tuesday to explain Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s face-off with a Congolese student and suggested that the questioner’s nervousness sparked the outburst with the mention of her husband’s name.

-VIDEO: Click here to watch video of the Hillary Clinton outburst

Clinton snapped at the university student in Kinshasa on Monday when he asked what...

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