Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Doing what needed to be done
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The Washington Post
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🗓️ 6 September 2016
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. I'm Jonathan Cape Heart. Welcome to Cape Up this week. My guest is |
| 0:08.0 | Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. I flew down to Miami to talk with her in |
| 0:12.1 | her district office, her first interview since her |
| 0:14.8 | blowout Democratic primary win on August 30th, and since her resignation under fire as chair of the Democratic |
| 0:21.4 | National Committee. |
| 0:22.6 | We talk all about it, including the rumor that President Obama personally called |
| 0:26.8 | her to step down. |
| 0:27.8 | That's absolutely untrue. |
| 0:29.7 | That did not happen. |
| 0:31.9 | Did not happen. |
| 0:33.0 | Plus the contention that she put her thumb on the scale against Bernie Sanders. |
| 0:37.0 | You know, for all the talk about how I supposedly put my thumb on the scale, |
| 0:41.0 | there certainly were times throughout the process where I really could |
| 0:46.7 | have put my thumb on the scale. |
| 0:48.4 | And then there's the other stuff like Brains, her hair, a golden uterus, and brass balls. |
| 0:53.7 | Yep, you heard me. |
| 0:55.4 | And it's coming up right now. Congresswoman, thank you very much for the opportunity to speak with you. |
| 1:06.2 | Thank you. |
| 1:07.2 | Let's get right to it. |
| 1:10.2 | So how hard was it for you to resign the chairmanship of the DNC? |
| 1:15.0 | You didn't want to do it, did you? |
| 1:18.0 | You know, what I wanted was to make sure that all the work that we had done to put on what ultimately was the |
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