RAHM EMANUEL IS CURRENTLY WRAPPED UP IN A CONTROVERSY
OVER HIS PERCEIVED PROTECTION OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
MAYBE THAT EXPLAINS THIS INCREDIBLY AWKWARD
INTERACTION HE HAD WITH A REPORTER.
YOU WERE SAYING BACKSTAGE THAT YOU WERE HEADED TO CUBA. RIGHT?
WELL, FIRST OF ALL THANKS FOR TELLING EVERYBODY.
YOU MADE THAT PUBLIC. I REALLY DON'T APPRECIATE THAT.
YOU ASKED ME WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO SO I AM EXPRESSING TO
YOU NOW PUBLICLY THAT MY FAMILY TRIPS ARE MY FAMILIES.
THAT IS NOT THE END OF THE AWKWARDNESS. WE HAVE MORE.
I KNOW WHO HATES THAT CONVERSATION MORE, THE
WOMAN IN THE MIDDLE.
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DIDN'T SEE THE STORY LAST WEEK, MIKE
WAS CALLED OUT BECAUSE THERE WERE SOME EMAILS RELEASED
THAT IF HE WERE TO GIVE AN INTERVIEW WITH CHELSEA
CLINTON THERE WOULD BE A NO RISK INTERVIEW AND HE WOULD NOT
ASK QUESTIONS THAT WERE NOT ALREADY AGREED TO IN ADVANCE.
SO NOW HE'S BACKPEDALING.
LET'S SHOW YOU THE REST OF IT AND THEN WE WILL TALK MORE.
THAT SAID, AMY AND I AS PARENTS TAKE A DECISION
EVERY YEAR TO TAKE OUR CHILDREN TO SEE OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD.
THIS YEAR WE WILL TAKE
OUR KIDS TO CUBA.
CAN YOU GIVE ME YOUR CELL NUMBER? I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU
TO LISTEN TO AMY.
I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THIS BUT IT'S NOT GOING TO WORK.
THAT COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MORE AWKWARD.
IT DIDN'T SEEM LIKE HE BROUGHT IT UP AS PART OF A SURPRISE
HARD-HITTING QUESTION.
I'M NOT GOING TO DO ANY READING BETWEEN THE LINES HERE.
I'M NOT MAD AT HIM, I AM MAD AT RAHM EMANUEL.
ONE THING I LIKE ABOUT HIM, RAHM EMANUEL, IS HIS HONEST
PRICKLINESS.
THAT WAS UNPOLITICAL AND I GUESS IT WAS A PRIVATE CONVERSATION.
I THINK IT'S AN EASY MISTAKE FOR A REPORTER TO MAKE BECAUSE
IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE TAKING YOUR FAMILY TO CUBA IS A BIG DEAL.
I SUSPECT THAT SOMEONE WILL PERSUADE HIM THAT IT IS NOT
THAT BIG OF A DEAL.
I DON'T KNOW IF HE WAS JUST PISSED-
I DON'T KNOW WHAT
RISK THEY WOULD HAVE AS THE MAYOR OF CHICAGO.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE ISSUE IS. I DON'T GET IT.
IT GOES TO PROTECTING THE KIDS THOUGH.
BUT FROM WHAT?
IT MIGHT BE SLIGHTLY THAT IT DOESN'T WORK FOR
POLITICIANS TO GO TO CUBA.
MIKE ALLEN, IF HE DID IT ON PURPOSE, MAYBE HE WAS
TRYING TO DIP HIS TOE INTO THE UNSCRIPTED CONVERSATION.
WITH THE MAYOR OF CHICAGO THERE IS NO WAY THE
QUESTIONS ARE SCRIPTED.
THERE I DISAGREE. IT'S NOT JUST THIS CHELSEA CLINTON THING.
WHEN HE ASKED BILL CLINTON A QUESTION ONE TIME HE WENT
OFF SCRIPT AND IN EMAILS INDICATED THAT THE CLINTONS
WERE LIVID ABOUT IT AND HE HAD TO WRITE AN EMAIL APOLOGIZING.
THIS IS WHY PEOPLE DON'T LIKE THE CLINTONS BECAUSE THEY
ARE ENORMOUSLY RESTRICTIVE ABOUT THAT.
THEY ARE CONTROLLING AND PARANOID.
THE CLINTONS ALWAYS HUNKER DOWN WITH A CLOSED GROUP OF
ADVISERS AND DISTRUST EVERYONE.
HILLARY CLINTON CAN HAVE THOSE RULES NOW.
RAHM EMANUEL WAS AN ENORMOUSLY PRICKLY GUY.
UNLESS YOU WANTED TO BELIEVE IT'S CALCULATED AND HE
THOUGHT HE DOESN'T LIKE MIKE ALLEN ñ
RAHM EMANUEL IS DECEASED.
I THINK NOTHING IS ABOVE POLITICS FOR THESE GUYS.
HE'S THE SEASON NOW BECAUSE OF THE SHOOTING IN CHICAGO.
HE'S GOT A WORLD OF HURT THERE WITH THE VIDEO AND HAS
EARNED A LOT OF MISTRUST IN CHICAGO, AS HE SHOULD.
EITHER WAY I DON'T KNOW THAT MIKE ALLEN CHOSE A QUESTION
TO GO OFF SCRIPT. I DON'T CARE ABOUT HIS VACATION.
TO ME THE MOST IMPORT PART OF IT IS HOW POLITICIANS FEEL LIKE
THEY GET TO SET THE GROUND RULES AND IF FOR WHATEVER REASON
YOU VIOLATE THEM THEY ARE GOING TO BE ANGRY IN A
WAY THAT IS DISPROPORTIONATE.
ONE OF THE MESSAGES IT SENDS IS DON'T ASK QUESTIONS I DON'T
LIKE OTHERWISE I WILL LET YELL AT YOU IN PUBLIC AND YOU
WILL GET IN TROUBLE. WHAT IS THE RESULT OF THIS?
MIKE ALLEN HAD A ROUGH 10 DAYS.
AS A GENERAL PRINCIPLE, ASK AWAY.
IN HINDSIGHT, YOU WOULD LIKE TO THINK THAT HE THINKS HOW
DID I KNOW THAT WAS A PRIVATE CONVERSATION.
HE TRIED TO APOLOGIZE.