Hillary News & Views 3.10: The Univision Debate

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/03/10/1499068/-Hillary-News-Views-3-10-The-Univision-Debate

By Scan



Hi all, Scan here...Lysis needed a day off from HNV but should be back pronto. I’m going to keep it concise today and focus on the final (?) Democratic debate, which is mostly what everyone’s talking about anyway.

Politico reports on what everyone noticed...how tough the moderators were on the candidates.

Many Republicans view Univision as a hostile news organization, with its unapologetic pro-immigration reform stance and [link:http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/univision-hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-117851|ties to Hillary Clinton.
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But on Wednesday night the network's two top anchors, Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas, along with Washington Post correspondent Karen Tumulty, tried to shed that image, while also previewing what a potential general election debate might look like between Clinton and Donald Trump.

"Secretary Clinton, I want to disclose once again that my daughter Paula works for your campaign," Ramos said in his first question of the night before launching into a question about Clinton's use of a private email server.

"When you were secretary of state, you wrote 104 e-mails in your private server that the government now says contained classified information, according to The Washington Post analysis. That goes against a memo that you personally sent to your employees in 2011 directing all of them to use official e-mail, precisely because of the concerns. So it seems you issued one set of rules for yourself and a different set of rules for the rest of the State Department. So who specifically gave you permission to operate your e-mail system as you did? Was it President Barack Obama? And would you drop out of the race if you get indicted?"

Clinton gave the same answer she's been giving on her email use, which wasn't satisfactory for Ramos. He pressed Clinton to actually answer his questions, leading to one of the more memorable lines of the night in response to whether Clinton would drop out if she was indicted over her email use.

"Oh, that's not going to happen. I'm not even answering that question," she said.

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