By MICHAEL FALCONE

NOTABLES

• HILLARY CLINTON WAS IN VIOLATION OF STATE DEPARTMENT RULES governing the use of non-governmental email accounts during her entire tenure as secretary of state and for nearly two years after she left the job, ABC's JONATHAN KARL reports. A senior State Department official told ABC News that under rules in place while Clinton was secretary of state, employees could only use private email accounts for official business if they turned those emails over to be entered into government computers. They were also forbidden from including sensitive but unclassified information on private email, except under some very narrow exceptions. This policy is still in place, according to the Department. Until any private emails are entered into government computers, the official says, an employee is in violation of the rules. http://abcn.ws/1EkbPHd

• A SENIOR STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL ACKNOWLEDGED, a potential violation of the 2005 department regulation as codified in the Foreign Affairs Manual (FAM), according to KARL. "Reports claiming that by using personal email [Clinton] is automatically out of step of that FAM are inaccurate," the official told ABC News in a statement. "We are not going to prejudge the outcome of the review of Secretary Clinton's 55000 pages of emails." A spokesman for Clinton did not respond to ABC News' repeated requests for comment. http://abcn.ws/1EkbPHd

• AT LEAST ONE DEMOCRAT - A SUPPORTER OF VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN - LASHED OUT at Clinton's email practices in a TV interview. "Is that what we really want in a presidential candidate and is that really what we want in a president?" former South Carolina Democratic Chairman Dick Harpootlian said in an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN yesterday. "She's got to run the campaign," Harpootlian added. "I was around Clinton in 92. I was with Obama here in Virginia in 08. I'll tell you who ran those campaigns: Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Who the hell's running this campaign?" http://abcn.ws/1EkbPHd

THIS WEEK ON 'THIS WEEK': Sunday on "This Week," the powerhouse roundtable debates all the week's politics, with Democratic strategist and ABC News contributor Donna Brazile, former Bush White House communications director and "The View" co-host Nicolle Wallace, and Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, managing editors of Bloomberg Politics and hosts of "With All Due Respect." Check the "This Week" page for full guest listings. Be sure to use #ThisWeek when you tweet about the program. TUNE IN SUNDAY: http://abcnews.go.com/thisweek

THE BUZZ

with ABC's VERONICA STRACQUALURSI

HILLARY CLINTON EMAIL MYSTERY MAN: WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT ERIC HOTEHAM. One of the biggest mysteries surrounding the discovery that Hillary Clinton used a personal email account and private server during her time as Secretary of State was the fact that the system was registered to a man that no one had ever heard of. Who was Eric Hoteham? And why did he have at least three different email domains - clintonemail.com, wjcoffice.com and presidentclinton.com - registered in his name even though the domains apparently were based in the former first couple's home in suburban New York? Efforts to locate public records related to anyone named Eric Hoteham were unsuccessful, in a search that included donor records, birth records or property records. There is, however, an Eric Hothem who is named as a Clinton aide in a Washington Post article from 2001, according to ABC's MEGHAN KENEALLY, LIZ KREUTZ and SHUSHANNAH WALSHE. http://abcn.ws/1AMSSpn

NOTED: LOCAL DEMOCRATIC LEADERS STIRRED, NOT SHAKEN BY CLINTON CONTROVERSY. Democratic leaders in the key early caucus state of Iowa and elsewhere are offering mixed reactions to revelations surrounding Hillary Clinton's use of private e-mail as secretary of state, with most standing by her but some questioning whether their party needs another choice. "Those supportive of Hillary Clinton that were backing her in 2008 are pushing this aside," Linda Nelson, the Pottawattamie County, Iowa, Democratic chair, told ABC News. Walt Pregler, Democratic Party chair for Dubuque County, Iowa, called the email issue "trivial," and other local Democratic leaders seemed to feel the same way. Martin Peterson from Crawford County, Iowa, expressed concerns over a lack of options. "Unfortunately there are no other candidates- I wish there were," Peterson said to ABC News. "It won't be competitive enough and we'll probably lose because I don't think it will play out well for us. Now how about that for pessimism?" More from ABC's MEGHAN KENEALLY, BEN SIEGEL, VERONICA STRACQUALURSI, STACY CHEN, STEPHANIE EBBS and KEVIN FREY. http://abcn.ws/1zSbGTY

FLASHBACK: WHAT HILLARY CLINTON SAID ABOUT EMAIL IN 2000. Hillary Clinton didn't like using email in 2000 and in light of the recent questions being raised over her personal email account, she may not now either. Footage from a 2001 report by ABC's BRIAN ROSS about a disgruntled donor shows then-Sen. Clinton talking about how she had chosen to avoid email for fear of a paper trail. "As much as I've been investigated and all of that, you know, why would I -- I don't even want -- why would I ever want to do e-mail?" she's seen on tape telling Peter Paul on home video captured at a fundraiser, ABC's MEGHAN KENEALLY and LIZ KREUTZ write. "Can you imagine?" she said. WATCH: http://abcn.ws/1wY6bCY

TOP CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS URGE PRESIDENT OBAMA TO EXTEND 'LETHAL' AID TO UKRAINE. House Speaker John Boehner and a bipartisan group of senior congressional leaders want President Obama to beef up Ukraine's military, including though the transfer of lethal defensive weapons systems, urging the president to utilize powers given to him by Congress late last year that he has not yet exercised but they believe will help fend off Russian aggression. "In the wake of a cease-fire agreement that appears only to have consolidated Russian and separatist gains since the first Minsk agreement, we urge you to quickly approve additional efforts to support Ukraine's efforts to defend its sovereign territory, including through the transfer of lethal, defensive weapons systems to the Ukrainian military," a letter sent by the group of lawmakers Thursday reads, ABC's JOHN PARKINSON notes. http://abcn.ws/1A2Kz9R

RICK PERRY CONDEMNS IRAN NEGOTIATIONS IN NEW ONLINE VIDEO. Rick Perry's PAC has a new online video out in which he criticizes, point-by-point, the nuclear deal the United States is seeking with Iran. At the end, he says the next president should not be bound by any agreement President Obama signs if Congress doesn't support it, ABC's ALI WEINBERG notes. "An arms control agreement that excludes our Congress, damages our security, and endangers our allies has to be reconsidered by any future president. We must not allow the incompetence of one administration to damage our country's security for years and decades to come." Stylistically, it's pretty stark for Perry - just him against a brick backdrop, staring at the camera and talking for three minutes straight, with b-roll of Iran's nuclear program superimposed on top. But it seems like he's determined to get out in front of all the other 2016 candidates on this issue, shortly after Bibi Netanyahu's speech to Congress and the AIPAC conference.

WHO'S TWEETING?

@SalenaZitoTrib: Hillary Clinton's team believes you're going to forget all about the emails,move on to something else & that's why they're just letting go

@evale72: Big email development, Jeb staff ALSO had private emails AND used them for govt business -> http://ow.ly/3xs2Kj

@PostReid: The Selma Country Club, in a county that's 80% black, still has no black members, per @GregJaffe @eilperin http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fifty-years-after-bloody-sunday-march-struggles-linger-in-selma/2015/03/05/8ed7a9c6-c348-11e4-ad5c-3b8ce89f1b89_story.html …

@DanaPerino: Academia - you've really got to address this problem http://tinyurl.com/m6y8fw2 - anti-semitism on UCLA campus. NYT article by @adamnagourney

@washingtonpost: Harrison Ford had lobbied Congress about cuts affecting private aviation http://wapo.st/1H5vcCe