WITH DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ OUT AS CHAIR OF THE DNC, AND WE
HAVE AN INTERIM REPLACEMENT, LUIS MIRANDA TWEETED OUT THAT IT
IS IN FACT GOING TO BE DONNA BRASILE.
SHE IS WELL-LIKED
INSIDE OF THE PARTY, INSIDE OF THE CAMPAIGN CERTAINLY, BUT SHE
HAS HER OWN PROBLEMS AND SHE IS NOT COMPLETELY UNATTACHED TO
THIS DNC LEAK SITUATION.
WE HAD THIS PARTICULAR EMAIL, GOD KNOWS
HOW MANY THERE ARE, SHE MIGHT SHOW UP ANOTHER ONES, BUT WE
HAVE THIS.
SHE WAS ASKED TO DO YOU HAVE A MINUTE TO CHAT, I
WANTED TO ASK ABOUT THE FIGHT BETWEEN THE SANDERS CAMP AND DNC
OVER ADEQUATE REPRESENTATION ON THE PLATFORM COMMITTEE AHEAD OF
THE CONVENTION.
THIS IS IMPORTANT TO SANDERS SUPPORTERS.
SHE RESPONDED, I HAVE NO INTENTIONS OF TOUCHING THIS.
WHY?
BECAUSE I WILL CUSS OUT THE SANDERS CAMP.
THAT IS PERHAPS
LESS CONSEQUENTIAL THAN SOMETHINGS DEBBIE WASSERMAN
SCHULTZ SAID BECAUSE DONNA BRASILE WAS PREVIOUSLY NOT AS
HIGHLY PLACED INSIDE THE DNC, HAD LESS INFLUENCE, BUT TO HAVE
THE PERSON WHO IS OUSTED BECAUSE OF THEIR MANIPULATION OF THE
PRIMARY PROCESS REPLACED BY A WOMAN WHO WAS CUSSING OUT
SANDERS SUPPORTERS A MONTH OR TWO AGO, I DON'T THINK A
LOT OF PEOPLE WILL SEE THAT AS A MASSIVE IMPROVEMENT.
HE RECUSE YOURSELF BECAUSE SHE WOULD HAVE CUSSED THEM OUT.
IT IS ALMOST PRINCIPLED, THAT IS A GOOD TAKE.
IN ANOTHER EMAIL
SHE ALSO SAID, I THINK WHAT THE SANDERS PEOPLE ARE DOING IS
STUPID.
THAT WAS LATER IN THE PROCESS, SO SHE MIGHT HAVE SAID
THAT IN THE CONTEXT OF, LET'S WRAP THIS UP.
A LOT OF REASONABLE DEMOCRATS THOUGHT, ENOUGH ALREADY.
THEY
WERE SILENT FOR A LONG TIME AND AT A CERTAIN POINT THEY SAID,
OVER.
DONE.
SHE IS ALSO A LOGICAL INTERIM REPLACEMENT, SHE
LEAVES CNN, SHE WILL GO BACK TO CNN, THEY WILL PUT SOMEONE ELSE
IN THERE.
SHE ALSO SAID AT THIS POINT WHAT THE DNC DID IS STUPID AND
SHE APOLOGIZED TO THE BERNIE PEOPLE ON BEHALF OF THE DNC, AND
SAID WE WILL STOP THAT NONSENSE.
THAT SOUNDS PRETTY GOOD, BUT I
THINK THE BOTTOM LINE IS SHE IS A QUOTE UNQUOTE CENTRIST IN THE
PARTY, PART OF THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP COUNCIL, THEY WERE
TRYING TO BRING MORE BUSINESS INTERESTS INTO THE PARTY, SO
GIVEN SOME OF THE LEAKED EMAILS -- AND AGAIN I FIND HER VERY
AMIABLE, I LIKE HER --
HER BIOGRAPHY IS AN UNBELIEVABLE AMERICAN STORY,
FORGETTING DEMOCRAT, REPUBLICAN, ANYTHING -- CAME FROM POVERTY
THAT NOBODY KNOWS AND ROSE TO WHERE SHE IS NOW.
SHE HAS AN AMAZING AMERICAN STORY.
BUT IT IS NOT ABOUT HER AS A PERSON, WE COULD ALL LIKE HER,
AND EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD COULD LIKE HER, BUT IF YOU TOOK
SOMEONE LIKE DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, WHO HAD A CERTAIN
MINDSET, AND YOU GO I'M GOING TO GET RID OF HER BUT IN HER PLACE
I WILL PUT SOMEONE THAT SEEMS TO HAVE A SIMILAR MINDSET,
THAT THE SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
AND IT MAKES ME THINK WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE WHEN
IT COMES TO RACES LIKE THIS, BECAUSE YOU CAN'T HAVE THE DNC
PICKING WINNERS AND LOSERS, SECRETLY ENDORSING ONE CANDIDATE
OVER ANOTHER.
THIS GOES BEYOND HILLARY AND BERNIE.
FOR ME IT
GOES TOWARD OTHER ELECTIONS AND WHAT THEY WILL DO.
IF THEY WILL
REPLACED EVERY WASSERMAN SCHULTZ WITH SOMEONE WHO IS PART OF THE
ESTABLISHMENT, WHO WAS PART OF THOSE EMAILS, THAT DOESN'T
REALLY SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
IT'S THINKING ABOUT WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE.
IT IS A NEW PROBLEM FOR DEMOCRATS TOO.
THE REPUBLICANS
HAD THAT WHERE IT WAS BOB DOLE, JOHN MCCAIN, WHOEVER'S CARD WAS
UP NEXT -- DEMOCRATS DIDN'T HAVE THAT, THEY HAD AN INSURGENT,
THEY HAD BILL CLINTON.
THEY HAD BARACK OBAMA.
SO THEY DIDN'T DO
IT AS MUCH, AND ALSO DONNA BRASILE COMES OUT OF THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY WHERE YOU CAN CRITICIZE GETTING MONEY AND
CORPORATE INTERESTS INTO YOUR PARTY, THAT IS HOW THE GAME IS
PLAYED, BUT COMING OUT OF THE REAGAN AND BUSH ONE YEARS,
DEMOCRATS WERE AT SUCH A DISADVANTAGE IN RAISING MONEY,
BUT RAISING MONEY IS WHAT ELEVATED THE PARTY FOR A WHILE.
SO YOU HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE PART OF THE PARTY AT THAT POINT WHO
ARE NOW LEADERS OR FADING LEADERS OF THIS PARTY, SO IT
WILL CHANGE AGAIN.
I DON'T THINK BRASILE CAN BE FAULTED BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT
THE PARTY WAS LIKE WHEN SHE WAS ASKED TO LIFT IT UP, THAT
WAS PART OF IT.
MY FINAL POINT ON THIS, THE DNC HAS NOW HAD AN OFFICIAL
STATEMENT WITH DONNA BRASILE WITH THE PRIME SIGNATOR, BERNIE
SANDERS HAS TALKED ABOUT THE LEAKS SAYING THIS SHOULD NOT
CHANGE YOUR SUPPORT FOR HILLARY CLINTON IN STOPPING DONALD
TRUMP, THE ONLY PERSON WHO IS NOT COMMENTED ON IT IS HILLARY
CLINTON.
THERE IS NOTHING IN THE EMAILS MAKING CLEAR THAT THERE
WAS COLLUSION BETWEEN HILLARY AND THE DNC, THAT THEY WERE
TAKING ORDERS DIRECTLY FROM HER, THAT SHE OBVIOUSLY BENEFITED
FROM WHAT THE DNC WAS DOING, SHE SHOULD TALK ABOUT IT.
SHE WAS
ASKED, SHE SAID I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE EMAILS.
IF YOU ARE
TRYING TO GET YOUR NUMBERS ON UNTRUSTWORTHINESS DOWN,
THAT IS NOT WHAT YOU SHOULD SAY, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'VE
ALREADY APOLOGIZED FOR THE 80S
AND ATTACKS, IMPLYING THAT YOU KNEW ABOUT THE EMAILS.
EVERYONE KNEW IT WAS GOING ON, WHEN EVERY SINGLE DEBATE WAS
PLANNED DURING THE WEEKEND IN THE VERY BEGINNING, YOU
KNOW SOMETHING IS UP.
TWO OF THE THREE HIGHEST RATED DEBATES WERE A SATURDAY AND
SUNDAY DEBATE FOR DEMOCRATS.
THAT IS SHOCKING BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT INTERESTED IN
WATCHING DEBATES ON SATURDAY OR SUNDAY NIGHT.
I LOVE THAT IT IS
COUNTER TO WHAT THEY EXPECTED, BUT THE EMAILS THEMSELVES
INDICATE THAT THEY WANTED TO PLAN THE DEBATES DURING THE
WEEKENDS TO DROWN OUT BERNIE SANDERS'S MESSAGE, WHICH IS
CRAZY, WHICH ALSO SHOWS THAT BERNIE WAS A THREAT TO THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY.