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DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazile Slipped Clinton Debate Question, Now Fired From CNN

<p>The Democratic National Committee is in trouble&period; After the shocking &lpar;not really&rpar; revelation that DNC officials were pro-Hillary and against Bernie Sanders comes the discovery that former CNN contributor Donna Brazile gave team Hillary a debate question ahead of time&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Donna Brazile stepped in as acting DNC Chairwoman after Debbie Wasserman Schultz was effectively kicked out for favoring Hillary Clinton &lpar;after which she was immediately hired by the Clinton campaign team&rpar;&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The accusation that Brazile slipped Hillary a debate question comes from another email found in John Podesta&rsquo&semi;s hacked Gmail account&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>CNN accepted Brazile&rsquo&semi;s resignation from the network immediately after the email was discovered&period; &ldquo&semi;We are completely uncomfortable with what we have learned about her interactions with the Clinton campaign while she was a CNN contributor&comma;&rdquo&semi; stated CNN on Monday&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Brazile sent the following email to Clinton Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri on March 5th&comma; the night before CNN&rsquo&semi;s primary debate in Flint&comma; Michigan&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>One of the questions directed to HRC tomorrow is from a woman with a rash&period; Her family has lead poison and she will ask what&comma; if anything&comma; will Hillary do as president to help the people of Flint&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>During the debate&comma; Lee-Anne Walters &lpar;the woman with the rash&rpar; asked Hillary to make a promise that if elected she would &ldquo&semi;make it a requirement that all public water systems must remove all lead service lines throughout the entire US&comma; and notification made to the citizens that have said service lines&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hillary&rsquo&semi;s response was lengthy and detailed&comma; and moderator Anderson Cooper was forced to interject in an effort to keep to the time limit&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Despite another email to Palmieri later that month in which Brazile wrote &ldquo&semi;from time to time I get the questions in advance&comma;&rdquo&semi; the DNC boss&nbsp&semi;is denying all accusations of wrongdoing&period;&nbsp&semi;&ldquo&semi;As it pertains to the CNN debates&comma; I never had access to questions and would never have shared them with the candidates if I did&comma;&rdquo&semi; she said&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When pressed on the topic during an interview with <em>Fox News<&sol;em>&rsquo&semi; Megyn Kelly on October 19th&comma; Brazile claimed she was being persecuted and told Kelly that her information was &&num;8220&semi;totally false&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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