Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Democratic strategist Donna Brazile sit down with David to discuss her early work with Rev. Jesse Jackson, moving up through the ranks of the Democratic Party, systemic issues in the DNC, the accusations in her new book, and more.

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0:00.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your
0:12.6	host, David Axelrod.
0:15.7	I first met Donna Brazil in 1990 when she was managing the campaign of Eleanor Holmes
0:21.6	Norton for delegate to the House of Representatives from Washington, D.C. She was then, as she is
0:28.0	now, ebullient, outspoken, passionate, and sometimes controversial.
0:34.1	No more so than with the publication of her book, Hacks, The Inside Story of the Break-Ins
0:39.1	and Break-Downs that put Donald Trump in the White House.
0:42.6	Donna recounts her experience at the Democratic National Committee and as its interim chair
0:48.8	during that very consequential campaign.
0:52.0	She came to the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago last week to talk about
0:57.4	all this and we sat down there.
1:00.2	Donna Brazil, it's so good to see you here and at the Institute of Politics.
1:08.0	It's great to be here.
1:09.4	You're the big newsmaker these days, and we're going to get into all of that.
1:14.9	But I would be remiss if I had you here and didn't ask you about your story and your family's
1:22.3	story, which is so rich and helps explain why you do
1:27.4	what you do.
1:28.4	But tell me a little bit about your family and growing up in Louisiana.
1:32.4	Well, I'm the third of nine children.
1:36.9	A Catholic family, my family.
1:42.0	If you walked in my house back in the middle of the 60s, you would have seen a picture of
1:49.9	John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and of course Jesus.
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