Position as soon as the convention is finished. Pressure on her to resign began building earlier today, snowballed by the hour until a statement from her office confirming her plans to quit. And heres why. The stack of emails collected and made public by the antisecrecy website wikileaks. Some of those emails suggest that Democratic Party leaders, including Debbie Wasserman schultz, had already made up their minds about who they wanted to be the partys nominee and were actively working to scuttle Bernie Sanders campaign. Heres an example. In one email exchange not independently verified by cnn, a Dnc Communications staffer suggested they take issue with the cnn report about a hypothetical sanders presidency. Wasserman schultz blew it off responding, quote, this is a silly story. Hes not going to be the president. Jeff zeleny, our cnn washington correspondent is joining us. Jeff, there are many other emails very problematic because the dnc is not supposed to pick sides, is supposed to b
The floor of the convention right now. Who will gavel this convention to order, bill . Looks like the mayor from washington, d. C. , stuart. Well confirm that in a moment. This has been a day that has been loaded with drama. We really do not know how these delegates and super delegates are going to react once this contention is gaveled to ord e. With order. Debbie Wasserman Schultz now says shell resign her most essentially, was booed out of the hall earlier today by the florida delegation. Youre still part of the delegation tonight, but where is this audience now on Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders . Well, i think at the end of the day were going to be united and together. Everybody in the hall is waiting to hear from bernie tonight. And i think its really smart theyre putting him on the podium tonight to speak to his supporters. Give me a sense of the entire delegation, which is substantial, in a critical battleground state, what is the percentage of delegates not on board right no
Me here in just a few minutes. But reality came it a crashing conclusion after that florida meeting which you just saw there. Jake, i was in this hall around 11 00 at night. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was alone walking across the stage, clearly doing a tryout to give a speech today. That was decided she would not do that. The reason is this, the wound that had been basically healing between the clinton and sanders people, at least somewhat, suddenly reopened by all of the revelations found in the wikileaks here. So if any progressed been made, they certainly are still raw, still fresh here as dana said, among sanders supporters. And jeff, this convention, starting off even messier than last weeks republican convention. We showed members of the florida delegation booing debbie Wasserman Schultz at breakfast this morning, that her home state. And thats a possible preview. If she were to go on that stage, look, im from philadelphia. I know what booing can sound like. Those are really mean o
They are out and the defense is well, it was the russians. No. Do you think the russians are trying to influence this election . I have no idea. There is no deanying the emails that they wrote. I do think its important we figure out how this happened. The political emails are one thing. It is bad and costs everyone their job. My concern is we have a server that Hillary Clinton had that has been noted fwi fbi to have top secret classified information. Thats real information that threatens our national security. Lets stay on the dnc right now. If someone hacked into the Republican National committee emails, do you know there were some emails that were upsetting to the Trump Campaign . Im sure theres something. Why are you making so much . Is there something that can be taken out of context . Im sure. I send funny emails every day. Im a funny guy. Theres nothing so in the spirit of transparency, will you release your emails . No. Its none of your emails. Will you give me yours . It is on
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