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Donna Brazile Appears To Have Sent CNN Debate Question To Clinton Campaign
The network has severed ties with the political commentator and interim
Democratic National Committee chair.
10/31/2016 02:05 pm ET
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cnn-donna-brazile_us_58176f0ae4b0990edc325a78?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063
Donna Brazile, a former CNN commentator and current interim Democratic
National Committee chair, appears to have informed Hillary Clinton’s
campaign about a question to expect at a primary debate that the network was
hosting in Flint, Michigan, the following night.
The email, which WikiLeaks posted Monday, is the second released this month
indicating Brazile may have tipped off the Clinton campaign about questions
they could anticipate coming up at CNN events during the primary fight
against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
Brazile apparently sent an email to campaign chairman John Podesta and
communications director Jennifer Palmieri on March 5 with the subject
heading, “One of the questions directed to HRC tomorrow is from a woman
with a rash.”
“Her family has lead poison and she will ask what, if anything, will
Hillary do as president to help the ppl of Flint,” reads the email, one of
thousands stolen from Podesta’s email account and published by WikiLeaks.
Russian hackers are believed to be responsible for stealing the documents,
which the Clinton campaign have not authenticated.
The next night, CNN moderator Anderson Cooper introduced Lee-Anne Walters,
who said her family had been poisoned and wanted to know what the candidates
would do about the water crisis.
“After my family, the city of Flint and the children in D.C. were poisoned
by lead, will you make a personal promise to me right now that, as president
, in your first 100 days in office, you will make it a requirement that all
public water systems must remove all lead service lines throughout the
entire United States, and notification made to the citizens that have said
service lines?” she asked.
Walters, who asked her question around 18 minutes and 39 seconds into the
debate, doesn’t mention having a rash and none is visible.
CNN suspended Brazile’s contract in July as she took over the DNC on an
interim basis following Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) being
pressured to resign after hacked emails showed party officials boosting
Clinton’s candidacy. The DNC, which was supposed to remain neutral in the
primary race, had already been dogged by criticism that its primary debate
schedule most benefited Clinton, the party front-runner, at the expense of
lesser-known rivals.
WikiLeaks published an email earlier this month in which Brazile ― who
served as DNC vice-chair while a CNN contributor ― appeared to send the
Clinton campaign a question ahead of a March 13 town hall with Sanders.
“From time to time I get the questions in advance,” Brazile wrote in a
March 12 email to Palmieri, then laid out a question on the death penalty,
presumably to be asked at the following day’s town hall co-hosted by CNN
and cable network TV One.
TV One host Roland Martin had sent CNN producers a question on the death
penalty that was identical to the one Brazile sent to the Clinton campaign,
Politico reported.
Martin, who co-moderated the event with CNN’s Jake Tapper, told Politico he
didn’t believe he had consulted with Brazile ahead of the debate. CNN
maintained it had not shared questions with Brazile and suggested to
Politico that she had received it from TV One.
We are completely uncomfortable with what we have learned about [Brazile
’s] interactions with the Clinton campaign while she was a CNN contributor.
CNN spokeswoman Lauren Pratapas
In an Oct. 13 interview, Tapper said he had “tremendous regard” for
Brazile, but said the revelation was “very, very troubling.”
“It’s horrifying,” Tapper said. “Journalistically it’s horrifying, and
I’m sure it will have an impact on partnering with this organization in the
future and I’m sure it will have and effect on ― Donna Brazile is no
longer with CNN because she’s with the DNC right now. But I’m sure it will
have some impact on Donna Brazile. It’s very, very upsetting.”
CNN spokeswoman Lauren Pratapas reiterated Monday that CNN hadn’t given
Brazile questions in advance and announced she had resigned from the network
on Oct. 14.
“CNN never gave Brazile access to any questions, prep material, attendee
list, background information or meetings in advance of a town hall or debate
,” Pratapas wrote in a statement. “We are completely uncomfortable with
what we have learned about her interactions with the Clinton campaign while
she was a CNN contributor.”
Brazile and the DNC did not respond to requests for comments.
But Brazile tweeted that she was “honored” to have been a CNN commentator
and referred questions regarding this latest email to a statement she made
on Oct. 11. At that time, Brazile said she “never had access to [CNN debate
] questions and would never have shared them with the candidates if I did.”
She added that the WikiLeaks emails may not be authentic “because it is
common for Russia to spread misinformation and forge documents.” |
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