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The batch of emails provided a glimpse into the inner workings of the Hillary Clinton campaign. | Getty<\/p><\/div>\n

The most revealing Clinton campaign emails in WikiLeaks release<\/h1>\n

The trove includes excerpts of Clinton’s paid Wall Street speeches that were deemed problematic.<\/h3>\n

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By KYLE CHENEY<\/span> and SARAH WHEATON
\nPOLITICO<\/span><\/p>\n

WikiLeaks released a trove of emails apparently hacked from Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign chairman email account, unleashing thousands of messages that reveal for the first time excerpts of Clinton\u2019s paid speeches \u2014 including those delivered before Wall Street \u2014 that were flagged as problematic or potentially damaging.<\/p>\n

The late-Friday release came almost immediately after a devastating tape emerged of Donald Trump in 2005 talking about how being \u201ca star\u201d entitled him to make aggressive sexual advances on women, fueling speculation that WikiLeaks is trying to tip the balance of the election.<\/p>\n

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The batch of emails \u2014 which Wikileaks promised is the first of many more to come \u2014 provided a glimpse into the inner workings of the campaign, and offered telling details about Clinton\u2019s views on trade and the middle class.<\/p>\n

In one of the most notable exchanges, Clinton campaign research director Tony Carrk emails other members of the team on Jan. 25, 2016 to share excerpts of her paid speeches that could come back to bite the campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cAttached are the flags from HRC\u2019s paid speeches we have from HWA. I put some highlights below. There is a lot of policy positions that we should give an extra scrub with Policy,\u201d Carrk writes.<\/p>\n

The first excerpt highlighted \u2014 with the header *CLINTON ADMITS SHE IS OUT OF TOUCH* \u2014 is from a Goldman Sachs-Black Rock event in 2014 in which Clinton discusses her distance from middle-class Americans.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father loved to complain about big business and big government, but we had a solid middle class upbringing. We had good public schools. We had accessible health care. We had our little, you know, one-family house that, you know, he saved up his money, didn’t believe in mortgages. So I lived that,\u201d she said in the speech. \u201cAnd now, obviously, I’m kind of far removed because the life I’ve lived and the economic, you know, fortunes that my husband and I now enjoy, but I haven’t forgotten it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The speech excerpts also delve into her support for a Canadian-style universal health care system and offer revealing comments about trade, which could prove controversial after Clinton dragged her feet in voicing fierce opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal that progressives loathe.<\/p>\n

Beyond those excerpts, the emails affirm the campaign\u2019s reputation for extreme caution, with an eagerness to proactively influence news coverage. Whether it\u2019s plotting the candidates\u2019 response to an early attack on influence peddling at the Clinton Foundation or writing jokes for an Iowa dinner speech, ad hoc committees \u2014 often incorporating advice from Bill Clinton \u2014 are shown agonizing over wording and tone. Under fire, they\u2019re determined \u201cnot to look beleaguered,\u201d as one aide put it.<\/p>\n

Clinton\u2019s campaign would not confirm the authenticity of the emails \u2014 though it did not explicitly deny it either. Podesta tweeted<\/a> on Friday evening that he did not \u201chave time to figure out which docs are real and which are faked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clinton spokesman Glen Caplin said in an email that, \u201cEarlier today the U.S. government removed any reasonable doubt that the Kremlin has weaponized WikiLeaks to meddle in our election and benefit Donald Trump\u2019s candidacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cWe are not going to confirm the authenticity of stolen documents released by Julian Assange who has made no secret of his desire to damage Hillary Clinton. Guccifer 2.0 has already proven the warnings of top national security officials that documents can be faked as part of a sophisticated Russian misinformation campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Republican National Committee seized on the leaked excerpts, trying to drive a wedge between Clinton and former supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders, who had made his calls for her speech transcripts a centerpiece of his primary challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith today\u2019s WikiLeaks revelations we are finding out who Hillary Clinton really is, and it\u2019s not hard to see why she fought so hard to keep her transcripts of speeches to Wall Street banks paying her millions of dollars secret,\u201d said RNC Chairman Reince Preibus in a statement. \u201cThe truth that has been exposed here is that the persona Hillary Clinton has adopted for her campaign is a complete and utter fraud. How can Bernie Sanders and many like-minded Democrats continue to support her candidacy in light of these revelations?\u201d<\/p>\n

Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon appeared to criticize the media for digging through the trove on Friday evening. \u201cStriking how quickly concern abt Russia’s masterminding of illegal hacks gave way to digging thru fruits of hack. Just like Russia wanted,\u201d he wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Indeed, here are eight more e-mail exchanges that shed light on the methods and mindset of Clinton’s allies in Brooklyn and Washington:<\/p>\n

1) Clinton Foundation event at Goldman Sachs<\/b><\/p>\n

In a May 2014 email, Clinton\u2019s soon-to-be campaign manager Robby Mook called it \u201ctroubling\u201d that Goldman Sachs had been selected to host an upcoming Clinton Foundation event. \u201cI flagged for Tina and Cheryl as well but it’s a little troubling that Goldman Sachs was selected for the foundation event,\u201d he wrote<\/a> in an email to Podesta.<\/p>\n

His comment was in reference to a New York Times story included in the email that described how \u201cThe most generous donors to the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation will convene on June 6 at the Goldman Sachs.\u201d<\/p>\n

2) Clinton\u2019s Keystone response<\/b><\/p>\n

In August, 2015, senior aides to Hillary Clinton debated intensely<\/a> how to react to the Obama administration\u2019s decision to reject the Keystone Pipeline, which they had heard was imminent.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just wanted to try to politically get ahead of this and where we are on the issue if this in fact happens,\u201d wrote Nikki Budzinski, Clinton\u2019s labor outreach director. \u201cThe trades are also hearing that HRC will put out a statement stating that she encouraged Obama to take this position. Politically with the building trades, this would be a very dangerous posture.\u201d<\/p>\n

Podesta replied, \u201cYour [sic] in trouble, girl. Seriously, doubt we’ll say we \u2018encouraged\u2019 but assume we’ll support if it goes that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The decision by the Obama administration was ultimately delayed, which aides presumed was to kick it past the Oct. 19 Canadian elections. Then, adviser Jake Sullivan suggested that she may simply reveal her opposition in response to a question.<\/p>\n

3) Challenging Trey Gowdy<\/b><\/p>\n

In March 2015, the Clinton campaign brass wondered<\/a> whether they could recruit a friendly lawmaker to question House Benghazi investigators\u2019 attempts to force Clinton to release her emails.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo we have some D who can squarely at Gowdy and demand he release all his emails for that last two years so people can see for themselves how politically motivated his investigations are?\u201d wondered Clinton pollster Joel Benenson.<\/p>\n

The problem? No one wanted to do it. They considered Elijah Cummings but then suggested they choose an \u201cHRC Warrior,\u201d as Podesta put it. \u201cWho is her most fearsome House ally?\u201d he wondered.<\/p>\n

Mook suggested Nita Lowey, Steve Israel or \u201cSJL\u201d \u2013 apparently Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas.<\/p>\n

As it turned out, none of them seemed eager.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter i suggested this earlier in the week i talked to few people on the Hill,\u201d wrote Jim Margolis, another Clinton strategist. \u201cThe challenge is getting a member of congress to do it… because they think they will be called upon to make the same disclosure. I pointed out that they don’t believe private emails should be made public, so there is no hypocrisy. But there is nervousness just the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe a retiring senator like Mikulski. I’ll keep working it, too,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

4) ‘Clinton Cash’ rapid response<\/b><\/p>\n

Clinton\u2019s team scrambled in the spring of 2015 to reaction to allegations made about the Clinton Foundation in \u201cClinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emails show an elaborate response plan, even debuting a rapid-response website for grassroots supporters to get talking points.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest question for this group is if and how HRC engages on Clinton Cash this week and what are the \u2018two lines\u2019 she would deliver,\u201d Jake Sullivan wrote<\/a> on May 3 to 10 top aides, including Jennifer Palmieri, Robby Mook, Mandy Grunwald, Joel Benenson and Jim Margolis. Benenson responded with a few lines for Clinton to say about the foundation\u2019s \u201clife-saving work around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe notion that that anyone donating to the foundation was going to influence me in my job is absurd,\u201d Benenson suggested Clinton say, to which Margolis suggested, adding \u201cand never happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of the rapid-response website, Sullivan wrote, \u201cJohn [Podesta] and I discussed yesterday and think it is important that supporters and press know that we will deal aggressively with unfair attacks, but our real focus and hers is her proactive vision. Important that we do not appear beleaguered.\u201d<\/p>\n

In April, the team looked for ways to have reporters thoroughly debunk \u201cClinton Cash\u201d before its release. \u201cAmy Chozick from the NYT called us to indicate she had obtained a copy of the book on her own and intends to file a separate story tomorrow. Her story will not unpack all of the book’s claims \u2026 she will do a more process-y story about the book’s existence, the fact that the publisher has approached multiple media outlets in advance of the book’s publication to spoon-feed them some of the book’s research,\u201d Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon wrote<\/a> to other Clinton advisers.<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cWe think this story, though it was not originated by us, could end up being somewhat helpful in casting the book’s author as having a conservative agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the author, Peter Schweitzer, stumbled through an awkward interview with ABC\u2019s George Stephanopoulos \u2014 himself a Clinton Foundation donor \u2014 the comms team took a victory lap<\/a> as they sent around the transcript.<\/p>\n

“[G]reat work everyone. this interview is perfect. he lands nothing and everything is refuted (mostly based on our work),\u201d wrote spokesman Jesse Ferguson.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is therapeutic to watch. George is cool as a cucumber, doesn’t rush into it, but just destroys him slowly but surely over the course of the interview,\u201d chimes in Nick Merrill.<\/p>\n

5) Joking about the Benghazi hearing<\/b><\/p>\n

On Oct. 24, 2015, the Clinton team debated how sharp of a dig Clinton should take at Rep. Trey Gowdy after her marathon appearance before his committee investigating the Benghazi attack. As they discussed remarks she was set to deliver at the October Jefferson Jackson dinner the next night, Podesta had an idea for a joke. \u201cI used to be obsessed with Donald Trump’s hair, that was until I got to spend 11 hours staring at the top of Trey Gowdy’s head,\u201d Podesta suggested<\/a> inserting into the speech.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love the joke too but I think HRC should stay above the committee – and especially above personal insults about it. She’s got every inch of the high ground right now,\u201d Jake Sullivan replied.<\/p>\n

\u201cWow. You people are a bunch of ninnies,\u201d joked Clinton comms director Jennifer Palmieri.<\/p>\n

But the team was determined to find some humor they could agree on. Mook suggested, an \u201cApprentice\u201d joke, but noted, \u201cI never saw the show. I’m also the worst person to generate jokes….\u201d<\/p>\n

Then Jim Margolis revealed a suggestion from Bill Clinton himself: \u201cWishing after hour 8 that Bernie would come through the door with his \u2018damn email\u2019 line.\u201d But Benenson killed the line:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a joke that would work and room would love it,\u201d he said. \u201cHowever one caveat: I think it gives Bernie the credit for putting the email crap behind us instead of her — she crushed the debate and she crushed at the committee. And while crowd may love it question for comms team is whether reporters would take it as proof that Bernie ‘saved’ her campaign from the email tempest.\u201d<\/p>\n

6) Jeb\u2019s economic message is not so different<\/b><\/p>\n

Following Jeb Bush\u2019s \u201cright to rise\u201d speech on Feb. 5 in Detroit, Clinton\u2019s aides had different reactions<\/a>. “It’s a scary new wrapping paper for trickle down,\u201d said Jeffrey Liszt, an outside pollster.<\/p>\n

Outside comms adviser Mandy Grunwald\u2019s take: “Very little in this speech that HRC wouldn’t say\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

7) Bernie oppo<\/b><\/p>\n

In October 2015, just as Sanders’ campaign was starting to pick up steam, Tony Carrk emailed<\/a> colleagues a list of potential points to use against the Vermont senator. The email, with the subject line “PLS REVIEW: Sanders Hits” featured paragraphs of potential lines of attack against Sanders on labor and the environment, a 1994 crime bill, gun control, gay marriage, and the environment. The Clinton campaign ended up using some of the potential attacks, like Sanders supporting the Commodities Futures Modernization Act, which blocked regulating credit default swaps, while also bashing repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act. Another point proposes attacking Sanders on spending.<\/p>\n

” Sen. Sanders has not told the American people how much his plans will cost and how he will pay for them. When asked for specifics, he demurs. When other estimates show trillions in new spending, he simply rejects them without offering his own estimate,” Carrk wrote.<\/p>\n

8) Sounding ‘Pro-Keystone’<\/b><\/p>\n

In the speech excerpts, Clinton-allied researchers flagged her positive remarks about the Keystone XL Pipeline and trade, made well before she came out against the pipeline and the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.<\/p>\n

“My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere,\u201d Clinton told a Brazilian bank in 2013. She added, \u201cWe have to resist, protectionism, other kinds of barriers to market access.\u201d<\/p>\n

An aide flagged these remarks as sounding \u201cPro-Keystone\u201d: “Keystone is a contentious issue, and of course it is important on both sides of the border for different and sometimes opposing reasons, but that is not our relationship.\u201d The Huffington Post has reported<\/a> that the June 2014 speech to tinePublic, Inc., was among several speeches with ties to two Canadian banks with a financial interest in the oil project.<\/p>\n

Brent Griffiths and Daniel Strauss contributed reporting.<\/i><\/p>\n

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