Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says, "I think the odds are pretty high" countries like Iran, China, and Russia hacked Hillary Clinton's email server.

In an interview with Hugh Hewitt on Thursday, the former CIA director said "the Pentagon acknowledges that they get attacked about 100,000 times a day."
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Hewitt asked Gates, "[A]re you surprised by the news that continues to come out about the former Secretary of State's server and the fact that the intelligence community's inspector general has said there was a lot of very highly classified information on her server?"

"Yeah, that's a concern for me," Gates said. "I never used email when I was head of CIA or head of the Department of Defense. As I used to joke, I didn't want to have some chief of station overseas email me and say he was going to do something if I didn't get back to him in three hours, and I would get back from a five hour hearing to discover I was two hours too late. I preferred dealing with people face to face and putting a signature on a piece of paper on matters of real national security and importance." (RELATED: Judge Napolitano: 'Hard To Believe That The FBI Will Not Recommend Indictment' For Hillary [VIDEO])