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Donna Brazile Biography

Donna Brazile is an American campaign manager, political strategist, political analyst, and author. She is a member of the Democratic Party, briefly serving as the interim chairperson for the Democratic National Committee in spring 2011, and pressume that role again in July 2016, until February 2017.

Brazile is known to be the first African American woman to direct a major presidential campaign, acting as campaign manager for Al Gore in 2000. She has also worked on several presidential campaigns for Democratic candidates, including Jesse Jackson and Walter Mondale–Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, and for Dick Gephardt in the 1988 Democratic primary.

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Brazile was born on December 15, 1959 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is 58 years as of 2018.

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Brazile was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on December 15, 1959. She is the daughter to Jean Marie (Brown) and Lionel Joseph Brazile. She is the third of nine children. Her family’s surname was “Braswell” several generations back. At a age of nine Brazile became interested in politics when a local candidate for office promised to build a neighborhood playground.

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Brazile was appointed chair of the Democratic National Committee’s Voting Rights Institute, after the post-election fight over votes in the 2000 United States presidential election in Florida.

2008 presidential election

She served as a superdelegate for her work for Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the 2008 election.

As a delegate for the Democratic National Convention, she consistently refrained from declaring her preferred Democratic presidential candidate. During an interview with political satirist Stephen Colbert, she stated, “Look, I’m a woman, so I like Hillary. I’m black; I like Obama. But I’m also grumpy, so I like John McCain.”

Initially, the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries in Florida and Michigan caused the delegates from these two states to be disqualified from being seated at the Democratic Convention due to the states moving their primaries against DNC Party rules. Brazile said that “We need to send a message that you can’t defy the rules,” adding, “I have pissed off just about every state in my career.”

During Rules Committee meeting to decide on the final allocations for these states she was quoted: “My momma taught me to play by the rules and respect those rules. My mother taught me, and I’m sure your mother taught you, that when you decide to change the rules, middle of the game, end of the game, that is referred to as cheating.”

Brazile was strongly critical of the Stupak–Pitts Amendment, which places limits on taxpayer-funded abortions in the context of the November 2009 Affordable Health Care for America Act.

2012 presidential election

Brazile served as interim chair of the Democratic National Committee for several weeks in the spring of 2011. Being a vice-chair of the DNC, she led the organization during the transition between outgoing chair Tim Kaine, who resigned to run for the U.S. Senate, and his successor, Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was not permitted to ascend to the post until at least fifteen days after being nominated on April 5, 2011. Due to Wasserman Schultz’s installation as DNC chair, Brazile returned to her post as vice-chair.

2016 presidential election

In New Hampshire, October 7, 2016, Brazile campaigns for Hillary Clinton at Nashua Community College. Brazile became interim chairperson of the DNC after Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned her position as chairperson of the Democratic National Committee on July 24, 2016, at the start of the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

Lucy Spiegel assisted Brazile in writing her convention speech and choosing Brazile’s wardrobe at the 2016 Democratic Convention.

She was responsible for a plan to spend money to drive up inner-city turnout in places like Chicago and New Orleans even though neither Illinois nor Louisiana was remotely competitive because of fear that Clinton would win the Electoral College vote but lose the popular vote.

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1. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics Kindle Edition
2. Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House
3. Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics

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Brazile once serves as a weekly contributor and political commentator on CNN’s The Situation Room and appeared on American Morning and its successor, New Day. She was a frequent member of Anderson Cooper’s guest panel of political experts on CNN’s Election Night Coverage and she regularly appeared on CNN Tonight with Don Lemon. She is also founder and managing director of Brazile and Associates and a contributor to NPR’s Political Corner and ABC News.

Brazile had agreed mutually with both ABC and CNN to suspend her contracts with the networks in order to serve as interim chair of the DNC. CNN announced on October 31, 2016, that Brazile offered a formal resignation and that they were permanently severing their ties to Brazile as a CNN contributor, due to inappropriate leaks with the Clinton campaign while she worked for the network.

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Brazile is an American author, academic, and political analyst who has a net worth of$3 million her salary is not known.

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The New York Times Magazine in 1999 described Brazile as an LGBT activist who served on the board of the Millennium March on Washington. The magazine said she is “highly protective of her privacy” and called her “openly ambiguous” about her sexual orientation.

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By Donna Brazile, CNN Contributor
March 26, 2013

Sometimes, a First Family remains a first family — a mirror of our times — even after the president leaves office. So it is with the Clintons.
This week, the United States Supreme Court will hear two landmark cases about marriage equality. One is a challenge to California’s Proposition 8, a law passed in 2008 that bans same-sex marriage in the country’s most populous state. The other is about a federal law, the Defense of Marriage Act, which prevents all legally married gay and lesbian couples from receiving the more than 1,000 federal rights, benefits and obligations that come from marriage. That means no joint tax returns, no joint Social Security and no military survivor benefits for gay and lesbian military families, just to name a few.
These are huge cases. We’re at one of those decisive national moments that you read about in textbooks as a kid—moments where we come together as a country and never fail to rise to the occasion to build a more perfect union.
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The moment is made even more historic by the long journey we’ve traveled as a country to get to this point. Today, 58% of Americans support marriage equality, and that number jumps to 81% when you only count people under 30. But support wasn’t always that decisive. As recently as 2004, the Republican Party actively exploited divided public opinion on the issue and focused President George W. Bush’s re-election campaign on fiddling with our Constitution to explicitly define marriage as between a man and a woman.
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But that was then. America has dramatically changed for the better. And more often than not, the change hasn’t come from courts or from Congress — it’s come from conversations in pews, PTA meetings and around dinner tables. America has gotten to know gay and lesbian people, and we’ve come to love them as ourselves.
Opinions have evolved, and sometimes those evolutions have been challenging and painful, but they have always been honest. By now, nearly every American has thought about these issues or come to a different view. It is through deeply personal transformations that we’ve arrived at this historic moment.
This brings me to my main point. The American people respect the Clintons because they’ve walked this journey with us. They’ve debated with us and struggled with us, and they’ve shown us it’s OK to evolve and to stand on the right side of history.
Earlier this month, President Bill Clinton published an op-ed in the Washington Post entitled “It’s time to overturn DOMA.” It took a lot of courage. After all, Clinton signed the law in 1996.
Today, nearly two decades later, he looked back on the law he signed and concluded, “I know now that, even worse than providing an excuse for discrimination, the law is itself discriminatory. It should be overturned.” Millions of Americans know exactly how the man feels. After all, they too once opposed equality for gay and lesbian Americans, and now they join him in wanting to make things right.
And just this week, Hillary Clinton broke new ground. As secretary of state, she was the first in American history to declare to the United Nations that “gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.” Now, in a video produced for the Human Rights Campaign, she took the last big step and fully embraced marriage equality, arguing that discriminating against “any of our daughters and sons solely on the basis of who they are and who they love is to deny them the chance to live up to their own God-given potential.”
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The Clintons have walked this journey alongside the country they have spent a lifetime serving, and it only makes us respect them more. When the nine justices of the Supreme Court take their seats to hear the two landmark cases this week, Bill and Hillary will surely be looking on two citizens out of hundreds of millions watching and waiting for justice.

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Brazile is a member of Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and has guest-starred as herself in three episodes of the CBS drama The Good Wife and one episode of the Netflix drama House of Cards.

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A WikiLeaks e-mail dump revealed that on March 5, 2016, Brazile sent an e-mail message to John Podesta and Jennifer Palmieri with the title: “One of the questions directed to HRC tomorrow is from a woman with a rash.” The message continued, “her family has lead poison and she will ask what, if anything, will Hillary do as president to help the ppl of Flint.” Clinton was delivered a similar question from audience member Mikki Wade at the next event in Flint , whose family was affected by the poisoned water.

WikiLeaks e-mail dump on October 11, 2016, included an e-mail Brazile sent on March 12 to Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri with the subject header: “From time to time I get questions in advance.” In the e-mail, Brazile discussed her concern about Clinton’s ability to field a question regarding the death penalty, and in a CNN town hall debate the following day, Clinton also received a similar question about the death penalty. The e-mail in question was verified using an everyday verification program and the DKIM system according to tech blog Errata Security.

At first vehemently Brazile denied receiving or furnishing the Clinton campaign with any town hall questions and dismissed the Wikileaks organization as “these sad ass whipper leakers try to slow my groove”. TYT Politics reporter Jordan Chariton was accused by Brazuke of “badgering a woman.” When she was questioned by Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, Brazile said, “As a Christian woman, I understand persecution. I will not sit here and be persecuted because your information is totally false.”

Donna Brazile Religion

Brazile is a Catholic and said she wanted to be a priest as a child but didn’t pursue it when her mother told her girls couldn’t be priests.

Donna Brazile Cooking With Grease

Cooking with Grease is an intimate account of Donna’s thirty years in politics. Her witty style and innovative political strategies have garnered her the respect and admiration of colleagues and adversaries alike — she is as comfortable trading quips with Karl Rove as she is with her Democratic colleagues. Her story is as warm and nourishing as a bowl of Brazile family gumbo.

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Brazile Full Interview With Tucker Carlson: Critics Who Can’t Stomach My Book Can Go Write Their Own

Donna, thanks for coming on.

DONNA BRAZILE, FORMER DNC CHAIR: Hey, Tucker, you know, what a great honor to be with you tonight after the Democrats did so well across the country yesterday.

TUCKER: Yes, they did.

BRAZILE: So, I’m excited to be here, excited about what happened in Virginia and New Jersey, and is excited to talk to you about my new book. “Hacks”. Let me say this upfront —

(LAUGHTER)

CARLSON: Wait a second. Let me ask a question. Congratulation on your party’s success last night, by the way.

BRAZILE: Thank you.

CARLSON: But let me just ask you this, I’ve been watching because I’ve known you a long time and I’ve watched you work for more than 20 years, and I’m watching people who know you well, journalists and Democratic Party officials, go after you, and the one thing I noticed is that the attacks all sound the same.

And my guess, and I want to ask you as a professional political person, it seems obvious that there was coordination, that someone is doing oppo on you in response to your book. Who do you think that is?

BRAZILE: You know, Tucker, I don’t really have time to figure out who is spending — I’m sure some much needed money that needs to go to Democratic candidates next year, to figure out what I said in this book is factually correct.

I want to tell you — I wrote upfront, I wanted to write this book to tell my story. I wanted the American people to see what happened. I became chair of the party for the second time in my life because our party was under attack, we were hacked. That’s why I was called upon to step up to become chair again.

CARLSON: Right.

BRAZILE: That — and I think — when you read the book, Tucker, you’ve mentioned it, we’ve known each other a long time. And we were colleagues once at CNN. The book is — it tells some hard truths, because as you well know, I’m not just any Democratic operative, I’m an activist. I come from the grassroots. I care about my party, I care about the future of my country and our democracy.

And as chair of the party, we lost an election last year many people thought we were going to win. And so, I did a forensic examination of what we did wrong and what we could do better so that we could win elections in the future.

CARLSON: Well, that seems like a wise and obvious thing to do. It was an unexpected loss, why not figure out why it happened? But you’re not seeing very many people in your party go along with that course, and instead of listening to your analysis of why Hillary Clinton’s campaign failed, they are attacking you and impugning your motives.

The Hillary campaign, almost every member of it, released a statement accusing you of buying Russian-fueled propaganda. Jeff Zucker, your former boss over at CNN, was enraged when he read the book excerpt that ran in “Politico” last Thursday, and you are seeing your former colleagues say you were just doing this for the money.

Why are they more willing to listen to the prescription that comes out of this book?

BRAZILE: Well, first of all, many of those individuals who signed that letter, I know them, I’ve been in the trenches with them for more than 30 years of my adult life, and that I had to go back in the trenches with them next year, I would go back because I believe in justice and fairness and equality.

But I wanted to tell you, when I became chair, I didn’t take a salary from the DNC. I gave up everything. I took a leave of absence from CNN and ABC.

The only thing I really went back to was teaching at Georgetown, because I love my students and I wanted to be there for them with a historic election on the horizon.

Tucker, I wrote this book because I wanted Democratic activists, rank-and-file Democrats, those of the people I listen to, those of the people that I respond to. I want them to know how hard we worked to elect Hillary Clinton and other Democrats up and down the ticket.

We came up short, as you well know, Tucker, less than 80,000 votes short in three states, then tonight we would be having a different conversation.

CARLSON: Right.

BRAZILE: We would be talking about Hillary Clinton’s first year in office.

Instead, we are talking about, you know, how the Democratic Party can come back stronger so that we can become more competitive in 2018 and beyond. And what I saw last night, I see a party that is capable of coming back out of the wilderness. I see a party with fresh faces, new blood, new energy, in large part because of Tom Perez and Keith Ellison, Karen, and so many other people on the DNC. They are working hard to change things for the country.

CARLSON: You haven’t mentioned anybody who helped run the Hillary campaign. Robby Mook, for example. Would you hire him to run the next Democrat’s campaign?

BRAZILE: Well, you know, Robby and I are both at Harvard. And one of things, when the Democrats win the popular vote and the Republicans win the Electoral College, people like us get to go up to Harvard and take a forensic examination of how we can improve our democracy. I went over to see Robbie last week.

I have great respect for Robby and his team but I was very complimentary of him in the book. I was very complimentary in the book.

CARLSON: I know you were and I want you to see what he is saying about you now on television. Here’s part of it.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

ROBBY MOOK, FORMER CLINTON CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN: The idea that the DNC could rake a contest, frankly, is laughable.

The allegations she’s making are simply not true. We don’t — certainly don’t recognize the campaign she describes. We also don’t recall some of the events she said that happened. I’m sure her publisher put her under a lot of pressure. I wish he just put her foot down and said, no, I’m not going to do this.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CARLSON: So, he’s describing you as a hapless pawn of your publisher.

(LAUGHTER)

BRAZILE: Well, you know, I’m the third of nine children and the one thing my parents taught us was to stand up, fight for ourselves, pray, and get up the next day.

Here’s what I know: I was chair of the party, but more importantly I was an officer of the DNC. I’ve been a member of the Democratic National Committee since 1997. I know how things operate. I’m the former chair of the party.

So, to suggest to anyone that I don’t know what I’m talking about, really — I’m not focusing on what Robby is saying. I’m focusing on making sure that grassroots Democrats know that our party is going to become stronger.

You have to let these wounds heal. We had a very competitive primary. I don’t know when the Republicans will sit down and heal their wounds, but we are healing our wounds, and we are going to learn how to become a stronger, more effective party.

CARLSON: So, here’s part of what you say about Robby Mook in the book. You said and I’m quoting: I’ve worked with men all my life and politics, and I can sense when they get to this part about not being able to deal with the woman. It was not a racial thing, it was a gender thing. Every time you mentioned that, they are trying to shut you down because you are a woman, all of these guys are like, no, no, no, no, no.

So, my question is, did — you are saying you were the victim of sexism from the management of the Hillary Clinton campaign. What was their response when you said, look, don’t treat me differently because I’m a woman?

BRAZILE: Well, you know, I may have — I may have also stated in the book, I think I did in three or four chapters, that it was also generational. Remember, I come from the old school. I come from the school when you have a three by five index card.

I come from the school, Tucker, that you actually knock on doors, you talk to people, you try to get their support, and then you try to get them out on election day.

Robby comes from a school that is a lot different than the school I came from. They do algorithms, they do data modeling, and what I would go come back to —

CARLSON: And they do sexism, too, apparently, from your book.

BRAZILE: And well, they —

CARLSON: Which is a little weird, since Hillary ran a whole campaign on breaking the glass ceiling and here’s a guy running her campaign diminishing you because of your sex. It seems ironic maybe.

BRAZILE: No, you know, it was dismissive. Condescending and dismissive, those are the words I characterize in the book, because I came back and said, Robby, I just left Little Haiti, or Robby, I was in Cuyahoga County, or Robby, I just left Colorado, and I wanted the campaign to understand that. We needed yard signs. We needed radio spots.

You know, on August 19th, when Donald Trump said, what the hell do you have to lose? He made that comment in front of a black audience, here I was the chair of the party and last time I checked I am black, and I said, I want to respond. I had to write a column because I didn’t control my resources.

So, I was fighting, Tucker, for what I normally fight for in a campaign, whether I’m a campaign activist, or a campaign chairwoman, I am fighting for resources to get our message out, because my job was to help elect Hillary Clinton and Democrats from the courthouse all the way up to the United States House and Senate.

CARLSON: So, you have this scene in the book that’s been much remarked upon, where Hillary is really sick. You say she is overworked and she’s got a bronchial infection, may be pneumonia, and she is so sick that you have this moment we think, maybe we need to replace her, maybe she won’t be able to continue. And that’s the point at which you said, maybe the vice president would be a good replacement.

That’s such a big deal, that it was striking when I read that — I thought here are a thousand reporters coming to his campaign and not one of them picked up anything like that, that the candidate’s health was that bad? That she was being considered may be not able to finish? Do think reporters knew that? How could they not know that?

BRAZILE: Well, let me just tell you, I had a lot of reporters who were calling my office, calling my home, texting me, sending me emails. In fact, it was a reporter that I mentioned that broke the story to me that she had fainted. And I immediately called up to Brooklyn and I tried to reach people on the road with her to find out if this was a rumor.

As you well know, Tucker, with the Russian meddling in our campaign, and yes, it happened, there were so many rumors that you had to debunk, and so by the time I saw the video, when the video went viral, you can imagine what was happening within the Democratic Party, what was happening inside of the inner circle.

CARLSON: Oh, I remember, and everything was fine. I remember, everything is fine.

BRAZILE: It was viral. Every five to seven minutes. Hillary is a friend, I cared about her health. Yes, I cared about her campaign but the last thing I want, I wanted to know how she was doing.

CARLSON: Yes.

BRAZILE: I wanted to know if she was OK. That is — what’s why in the book you read that I suggested that she get some acupuncture, because I like acupuncture. It helps me when I’m out there fighting —

 

CARLSON: Let me ask you quickly about the Russians, you have a lot in the book about that, and your concerns about hacking the servers over at the DNC. If you believe the Russians did that, why didn’t the Democratic national committee allow the FBI to examine those servers? Why were they given over to a vendor and not the U.S. government investigators?

BRAZILE: You know, that is a great question, and let me tell you, it’s in the book as well. When the DNC officer, who was Debbie Wasserman Schultz, when it was brought to her attention, she immediately reached out to get cybersecurity experts on board. She reached out to a former number three at the FBI, who is currently working with an organization called Crowdstrike.

CARLSON: Yes.

BRAZILE: Along with our cyber attorney, they provided the FBI with everything that they requested. Remember, we were still using our system —

CARLSON: Oh, but come on now. Come on now.

BRAZILE: Tucker, first of all —

CARLSON: If you think, of course — so, bottom line is, it’s Debbie Wasserman Schultz who made that decision, I think that’s the headline here.

But if you really think that the intelligence service of a foreign government is breaking into your computers in the middle of the campaign, you want actual federal investigators to get to the bottom of it. But you are saying that she stop that.

BRAZILE: No, she did not stop that.

CARLSON: Who did?

BRAZILE: She cooperated. She cooperated. She turned over for everything.

But, Tucker, we were still running a party. We still had our mainframe, you know, being managed, being remediated.

CARLSON: But you could allow the FBI access to that, though.

BRAZILE: Let me just tell you, we spent over $60,000 to provide the FBI, the government, because we wanted their help. Tucker, after I received my FBI brief in August —

CARLSON: Yes?

BRAZILE: — do know what I wanted to do? I wanted to go to the Pentagon, I didn’t want to go back to the DNC, I wanted somebody to put yellow tape around the DNC. I was scared. We were under attack.

CARLSON: Right.

BRAZILE: And, you know, we —

(CROSSTALK)

CARLSON: Well, don’t know if we were under attack or not, because federal investigators never had access to your server!

BRAZILE: They had, they had.

If you recall, James Comey —

CARLSON: I do recall —

BRAZILE: — James Comey was under oath and said that he was able to get everything he needed from the DNC from this credible source.

CARLSON: He doesn’t know that. He doesn’t know that because he didn’t have access to your servers, he shouldn’t have said that.

BRAZILE: But why would we hold onto servers that were filled with malware and spyware?

CARLSON: I don’t know the answer to that. I was hoping to get it from you.

BRAZILE: Well, when I became chair, let me just say this, from August, from the moment I became chair, we cooperated with DHS, FBI, CIA, anyone who would help us, we want to help —

CARLSON: Yes, but not, but not enough to give them your servers. All right.

BRAZILE: — because our country — our country — our country was under attack. It wasn’t just the Democratic Party. Our democracy was under attack.

(CROSSTALK)

CARLSON: No, look, I mean, we don’t know the answer because Debbie Wasserman Schultz apparently wouldn’t turn them over. So, a couple of days ago —

BRAZILE: We turned over the information, though.

CARLSON: — a Hillary Clinton supporter had this to say about you on this show.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don’t know whether Donna Brazile is a kook, but what she said is kooky.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CARLSON: Now, we’re going to get your response to that next. I’m going to give you three minutes to formulate your response to Richard Goodstein.

More with Donna Brazile in just a minute.

BRAZILE: Thank you.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

CARLSON: Taking a look at live pictures of the president of the United States motorcade in Beijing, China, the capital city. He’s leaving his hotel.

Well, welcome back. We are still joined by the former chair of the DNC, Donna Brazile.

So, Donna, really quick before I get your response to the clip we showed you before the break, when was the last time you talk to Bill and/or Hillary Clinton?

BRAZILE: I’m sorry, I didn’t hear that.

CARLSON: Well, when was the last time you spoke with Bill or Hillary Clinton, and how did that conversation go?

BRAZILE: Oh, in the book, I said I spoke to Hillary in February. I believe the date was February 10th in Baltimore when the Democratic Party was hosting its final future forum to elect new officers for the Democratic Party.

CARLSON: Right. But have you spoken to her — I mean, the reason I’m asking is every Democrat I know, the professional Democrats from Jeff Zucker, you know, all the way to Jen Palmieri and all the people you’ve worked with over the years, all seem mad, and I know the Clintons are in that group. Have they complained to you or people you know? What’s the response you’re getting?

BRAZILE: Well, first of all, let me just say this, and last week I reached out to as many Clinton staffers as possible to let them know that my book was finally coming out, excerpts. I didn’t have to do that. I also flew down to Washington, D.C., to inform my colleagues at the DNC. Again, I didn’t have to do that.

CARLSON: Right.

BRAZILE: Look, I want — I am a Democrat, a lifelong Democrat, and, you know, if they choose not to read the book, or they decide to write their own book, I hope they will do that.

Tucker, I read Hillary’s book, “What Happened”. It’s a great book because it’s historical, it’s biographical, and also, as a woman who’s been very, very active in politics, I thought she really examined some of the reasons why she fell short.

So, I suggest for those who are upset, or not capable of stomaching my book, go write their own book. But I want to respond that last clip that you —

CARLSON: Yes.

BRAZILE: — that showed me before the break.

CARLSON: The one where the male Democrat dismissed your claims of having experienced sexism by saying you were crazy, something I thought we weren’t allowed to do.

BRAZILE: Oh, well, first of all, my mother when I was a kid growing up, my mother used to say, it’s not what they call you, it’s what you answer to.

But I want to channel another woman who I admire so much, and that’s Michelle Obama, who said when they go low, you go high. And perhaps what I did on Sunday when I told some of my detractors to go to hell, and as you well know, some of my conservatives know that I have always had a quick tongue. I’ve told people in the past what I really feel.

You know, I should have — I should have channeled Michelle and just go high. I’m thinking now, Tucker, as you — you know me and I’ve known you for a long time, we haven’t gone fishing, but I got a lot of kids out there that know me, that believe in me, they know who I am.

I walk the streets in Virginia with them just recently. They know that I stand behind them. They are up at Harvard, they’re at Georgetown, and I want them to know that I am still the same Donna that they have always known.

CARLSON: OK. So —

BRAZILE: I’m feisty. I’m gutsy.

CARLSON: Well, I’ve noticed that.

BRAZILE: And as you well know, Tucker —

CARLSON: So, they’ve come after you — they’ve come after you and said, look, it’s a little much for you to criticize the DNC for colluding with the Hillary campaign when you conceded that you leaked questions to the Hillary campaign during a CNN town hall, before a CNN town hall.

My question when I’m reading this is, did no one at CNN know that happen? Did they really learn for the first time when they read your book? How could they not have known that?

BRAZILE: Well, Tucker, I surely hope everyone will now go out and buy the book. It’s called “Hacks: The Inside Story.”

(LAUGHTER)

(CROSSTALK)

CARLSON: There was a question there. Did nobody at CNN know that you did that? So, you say, look, you gave — you apparently got them from —

BRAZILE: Oh, no, Tucker, you cannot put words in my mouth.

CARLSON: No, no, I’m just asking.

BRAZILE: I got some lipstick from FOX, but that has not forced me to not stand my ground. I said in the book —

CARLSON: No, but it’s not your ground. I’m asking about CNN where you then worked.

BRAZILE: Well —

CARLSON: You haven’t gone on their air, they are mad at you, obviously. But did they know that you leaked these questions, really simple question?

BRAZILE: Well, you know, Tucker, I said last year —

CARLSON: It sounds like you did.

BRAZILE: No, Tucker, don’t try to put words in my mouth. I said last year that CNN never provided us with any questions. CNN never gave us anything in advance.

What I did say, what I have said in the past, and what I said in this book is that I as an officer of the DNC — and I know WikiLeaks gave everybody, you know, certain questions and certain emails, but as an officer of the DNC, I sought to expand the number of debates, and I wanted to make sure that we had diverse voices.

CARLSON: Right.

BRAZILE: And we covered issues that had not been discussed in previous debates, and what I did

CARLSON: So —

BRAZILE: — no, give me one more second.

CARLSON: OK.

BRAZILE: And I know it’s your show, I’m not trying to take over. But what I sought — Tucker, I know you too well. What I sought to do, Tucker, was to ensure that we had these issues on the table, and I made sure that our candidates, I didn’t want them blindsided. That’s what I admitted to. That’s what I — look, what WikiLeaks put out —

CARLSON: That’s the greatest spin I’ve ever heard. I didn’t want them blindsided. That’s so good. You should do this for a living! That is hilarious.

Let me ask you — let me ask you a personal question. Hold on, in the book —

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BRAZILE: Tucker, WikiLeaks sought to divide us. These were active measures where you got to see the things I gave to Hillary, you never got a chance to see the things I gave to Bernie or Martin O’Malley. Let me just tell you —

(CROSSTALK)

CARLSON: You know what, I’m totally happy, you bring those and I will put them on the show anytime.

In the book, though, I just want to ask you — this is an sincere personal question. You described a number of occasions where you felt threatened personally, where you felt like maybe you might be hurt by somebody, and you’re not very specific about who might have hurt you, but it’s clear that you were worried about it.

Do you still feel that way? Are you worried? Are you getting threats now?

BRAZILE: This was an unusual political campaign season last year and at night when Donald Trump — and I wrote this in the book, and, you know, I’ve gone to church and said to the God I worship that I am not going to hold any anger in my heart, but President Trump every night would go out there and say that Donna Brazile, Donna Brazile, and you know what, the moment he stopped talking, my emails, my Twitter, my phones, it got blown up and yes, I got plenty of threats that were just — let me just say this — they were over the top. And I —

CARLSON: Are you getting them now? Are you getting threats right now since the book has come out?

BRAZILE: Of course. People are — when people see things that they disagree with, they don’t just say, Donna, I don’t like that, that gumbo not the right kind, you used an Andouille sausage, not the hot sausage. You know what they say? I would rather not have you or the gumbo.

Tucker, unfortunately, we live in a world where even appearing on the show tonight, even taking pictures with people I disagree with, people attack you. They don’t — they attack your motives.

CARLSON: Yes, I know they do.

BRAZILE: And everyone who has said, Donna is making money — well, first of all, that’s a good thing because Donna got a lot of mouths to feed. But people are questioning why Donna would write a book, because Donna likes to write.

Please read the book. This is a great book. A wonderful —

CARLSON: I believe Amazon has sold out of it.

BRAZILE: Well, there are more on the way.

(CROSSTALK)

CARLSON: Donna Brazile —

BRAZILE: Tucker, you and I got to go fishing, because I have a recipe that I think will make your tummy feel really good.

Let me just say one last thing.

CARLSON: Come back (ph) —

BRAZILE: I worked very hard to elect Hillary Clinton.

CARLSON: Yes.

BRAZILE: We fell short. But next year, watch out. Next year is going to be a blue wave, Tucker. I hope you have me back on the show.

CARLSON: Any time.

BRAZILE: All right.

CARLSON: Donna Brazile, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks for joining us.

BRAZILE: Thank you, Tucker.