Chuch Ross
\nThe Daily Caller<\/p>\n
In the face of all evidence to the contrary, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell claimed on Thursday that allegations that Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile leaked town hall questions to the Clinton campaign have been \u201ccompletely knocked down.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mitchell was discussing references Donald Trump made on Thursday to leaked debate and town hall questions. Trump claimed on Twitter that questions from Wednesday\u2019s debate, moderated by Fox News\u2019 Christopher Wallace, were provided to the Clinton campaign.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, he referred to the scandal involving Brazile and her apparent leaking of a CNN\/TV One town hall question asked of Clinton in March.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was completely knocked down. She was a panelist,\u201d Mitchell said in defense of Brazile, who was a contributor to CNN and ABC before taking over the DNC in July.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom time to time I get the questions in advance,\u201d Brazile wrote in the March 12 email to\u00a0Clinton campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri.<\/p>\n
The email was hacked from the Gmail account of\u00a0Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and released by Wikileaks.<\/p>\n
In her email to Palmieri, Brazile included a question about the death penalty which was asked verbatim the next day in the\u00a0CNN\/TV One town hall.<\/p>\n
Brazile initially claimed that she was referring to questions she had received in advance of an appearance on a talk show panel.\u00a0But the death penalty was not discussed in any of her appearances the next day. TV One\u2019s Roland Martin asked the question of Clinton.<\/p>\n
CNN and its anchor, Jake Tapper, who co-moderated the town hall with Martin, vehemently denied leaking the question to Brazile.<\/p>\n
Martin has not given a straight answer on the issue. Brazile initially told The Daily Caller that the idea she leaked a question to the Clinton campaign was \u201ca stretch.\u201d<\/p>\n
She claimed on Wednesday that her emails may have been doctored by the hackers who infiltrated Podesta\u2019s email account. In a heated interview with Fox News\u2019 Megyn Kelly, Brazile refused to confirm or deny that she sent the email. Instead, she said that she was being \u201cpersecuted\u201d by the line of questioning. (RELATED: Donna Brazile Claims She\u2019s Being \u2018Persecuted\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n She did say that CNN did not leak any questions to her. She did not say the same about TV One or Roland Martin.<\/p>\n WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n