Donald Trump 's Super PAC , Hallie Jackson of NBC News , who covers much of the Republican side of this race , Pulitzer Prize - winning author and historian , Doris Kearns Goodwin and New York Times columnist , David Brooks . Well , where to begin ? David Brooks , I just want to get your reaction .
A few tidbits have percolated through the noise , however . The first revolved around portions of Clinton ’s speeches to Wall Street banks — the ones Democratic primary challenger Sen. Bernie Sanders ( I - Vt . ) pressed Clinton to release for months — in which Clinton claimed to have a “ public and private position ” on issues facing the U.S. , among other revelations . Other items of interest include Podesta ’s Center for American Progress advisingcontact.requestadvise.naClinton against backing a $ 15 minimum wage , coordination between the Clinton camp and journalists , and former CNN commentator Donna Brazile — now interim chair of the Democratic National Committee — emailing Clinton ’s communication manager language that later echoed a question in a CNN town hall between Clinton and Sanders . ( CNN firmly denies that it shared town hall questions with the candidate in advance . ) In truth , this is just a small fraction of the revelations .
This is the man whom establishment Republicans are now embracing — albeit with a tinge of vomit in their mouths — as the best chance to stop the disaster to their party that Trump ’s nomination would unleash . Many Republicans , departing from a lifetime of voting patterns , say they ’d pull the lever for Hillary Clinton in a contest against Trump or Cruz . Max Boot , the Commentary columnist and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who ’d been advisingcontact.requestadvise.naMarco Rubio before he dropped out , told the New York Times that he ’d vote for Josef Stalin over Trump .