CNN cuts all ties with Democratic Party Chief Donna Brazile after hacked email shows she leaked a SECOND debate question to Hillary's campaign

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Written by David Martosko

* Interim Democratic Party Chairwoman Donna Brazile no longer has a job as a paid commentator on CNN
* WikiLeaks has published an email showing she leaked a CNN Democratic primary debate question to senior Hillary Clinton aides a day in advance
* The question, about lead poisoning in the Flint, Michigan water supply, was asked in the debate where Clinton squared off against Bernie Sanders
* Brazile also wrote one of the Clinton staffers with a death-penalty question from a CNN-hosted town hall one day ahead of time
* 'From time to time I get the questions in advance,' she wrote, later claiming Russian hackers had set her up
* CNN now says: 'We are completely uncomfortable with what we have learned about her interactions with the Clinton campaign'



CNN has cut all ties with Interim Democratic Party Chairwoman Donna Brazile, following revelations that she shared at least two questions with Hillary Clinton's campaign in advance of CNN-hosted Democratic debates and town hall broadcasts.

'We are completely uncomfortable with what we have learned about her interactions with the Clinton campaign while she was a CNN contributor,' the network's PR department said in a statement.

Brazile's actions were uncovered in emails released by WikiLeaks after a hacker penetrated the Gmail account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.

On Monday the anti-secrecy group published a March 5 email showing Brazile tipping off Podesta and Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri about a question that an audience member would ask a day later during a debate against rival Bernie Sanders.

The event, hosted in water-poisoned Flint, Michigan, was moderated by CNN anchors Don Lemon and Anderson Cooper.

'One of the questions directed to HRC tomorrow is from a woman with a rash,' Brazile wrote.

'Her family has lead poison and she will ask what, if anything, will Hillary do as president to help the ppl [people] of Flint.'

A woman named Lee-Anne Walters ended up asking the question.

'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?' Walters asked.

Republicans' hackles shot up last month when a Wikileaks email dated March 12 showed Brazile sending Palmieri a question about death penalty politics, which an exonerated death row inmate asked her the next night – almost verbatim – during a CNN-hosted town hall.

'From time to time I get the questions in advance,' Brazile wrote, according to the WikiLeaks-released email.

CNN employed Brazile as a paid commentator. She frequently advocated for Democratic candidates on the network until she took over the helm of the Democratic National Committee following the resignation of chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz – who was forced out amid charges of anti-Sanders partisanship.


SHE'S OUT: CNN has cut all ties with Donna Brazile, the Democratic Party's interim chairwoman, after WikiLeaks emails established that she cheated by giving Hillary Clinton's campaign at least two debate and town hall questions ahead of the CNN-hosted events

When the death penalty email became public on October 14, she voluntarily 'suspended' her CNN contract, according to two network sources.

At the same time, she vehemently denied sending the March 12 email, telling Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly that she was being 'persecuted' over an email Russian hackers had likely inserted to embarrass her.

'I am not going to try to validate falsified information,' she declared.

CNN's statement on Monday claimed the network 'accepted Donna Brazile's resignation as a CNN contributor' on October 14.

The network denied ever giving her 'access to any questions, prep material, attendee list, backgroud information or meetings in advance of a town hall or debate.

Just before noon on Monday, Brazile tweeted: 'Thank you @CNN. Honored to be a Democratic Strategist and commentator on the network. Godspeed to all my former colleagues.'

On Sunday afternoon, seeming to anticipate more headaches, she tweeted: 'Please, God, let this end soon.'

Brazile referred media questions to a statement she issued on October 11, in which she claimed that 'as a longtime political activist with deep ties to our party, I supported all of our candidates for president. I often shared my thoughts with each and every campaign, and any suggestions that indicate otherwise are simply untrue.'

'As it pertains to the CNN Debates, I never had access to questions and would never have shared them with the candidates if I did,' she said then.

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