Jill Abramson on NYT email stories: 'Why is that a big deal?'

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🗓️ 21 March 2016

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Jill Abramson, the first woman editor of the New York Times, tells Glenn Thrush that Hillary Clinton gets "more scrutiny" than men because she's subjected to a political "purity test." She also talks about beginning her career in the South, how people how overlooked Donald Trump's 'Apprentice' years, what she learned from The New York Times and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, it's Glenn Thrush with Politico's Off Message podcast. I'm coming to you after what I'd say is probably the best week in Hillary Rodham's political life. She won all five
0:23.1	primaries on Stupor Tuesday. I guess it's called Stupor Tuesday. Some people calling it Super Tuesday 3,
0:29.8	the day before Wednesday, I don't know what the hell to call it. The bottom line here is
0:33.3	Hillary Rodham Clinton is probably going to be the first female nominee of a major party.
0:39.7	I think this, it's not written in stone, but I would say it is written in brick.
0:45.0	We've got Bernie Sanders would have to win something.
0:48.1	Nate Cone of the Times did an excellent analysis.
0:50.3	You guys should look at it.
0:52.2	58% of the remaining delegates Bernie Sanders would have to win.
0:56.0	That's a possibility, I would say, is an extraordinarily high unlikelyhood.
1:00.0	She now leads by 300 pledged delegates and a ton of super delegates.
1:04.0	I don't think it's going to happen for Bernie.
1:07.0	And I can tell you now that a lot of Bernie folks I've talked with concede that
1:11.1	point off the record, and the Clinton people are certainly starting to pivot to the general
1:15.7	election.
1:16.7	So what happened?
1:17.7	I think what happened was Donald Trump invaded the Democratic primary.
1:22.6	The same thing that happened a couple of weeks ago on the Republican side where every Republican
1:26.9	in the country
1:27.5	who wasn't supporting Donald Trump realized this guy was going to be the nominee and freaked
1:31.8	out. I think that started to happen with Democrats. I went up to New York and did a panel discussion,
1:37.1	a really good one with Howard Dean and Ed Rollins. And we got, I think, 12 questions, and 10 of them
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