Lanny Davis Fumes At MSNBC Host Over Clinton Email Story Questions

[Capt. Obvious]

Things got a little tense Friday between former Clinton White House counsel and public-relations consultant Lanny Davis and MSNBC host Tamron Hall when Davis went on Hall's show to discuss the latest surrounding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email system while at the State Department.

The discussion broke out into an argument when Davis took issue with MSNBC reporter Alex Seitz-Wald saying on the show the email situation has been feeding into questions of whether Clinton "violated policy, she might have opened herself up to potential security breaches."

"The fact is she did nothing wrong, Hillary Clinton did nothing wrong, Hillary Clinton did nothing wrong, as long as they're preserved and there's nothing to hide," Davis said.

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Davis said he wasn't "deflecting," just arguing that there's a "double standard in media coverage where we're not pointing out that there's precedent for what Hillary Clinton did, whether there's a governor or Secretary of State Powell, that's all."

"Well, Secretary of State Powell did not control his own server…" Hall responded. "We know that."

"Excuse me! Governor Bush did," Davis shot back. "When you make these distinctions, you're in argument, not doing facts. You want to argue with me, that's your right as a host of a program."

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What is Lanny's DU handle?

[NOVA_Dem]

1. The Clinton's have such weasley people around them.

I'm not the biggest Obama fan but I don't recall Obama having such unsavory characters affiliated with his administration.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

3. Can tell they're gettin worried when they hafta drag Lanny out. He completely missed the point whether classified info was privately held.

If so, Hillary's got a BIG problem that not even Lanny "the fixer" can solve.

[NOVA_Dem]

4. He's taking a break from defending dictators and the Redskins owner n/t.

[peacebird]

11. Remember Rahmbo....? When Obama picked Rahm I started cringing....

[NOVA_Dem]

18. another Clinton retread.

[DURHAM D]

12. Lanny, as well as several other "insiders", are

part of a mad scramble for position as they are trying to apply for a job on her campaign by seeking their own press contact/coverage. There are thousands of people jockeying for position as I type. They promote themselves as "Clinton people", talk to the NY Times or the Washington Post or any other second tier media person who will listen to them, go on tv, run their mouths, say stupid stuff and thus guarantee that they won't be hired.

Later when reality strikes and they realize they won't be getting a job because they selfishly and wrongly injected themselves they will go around trashing her at every opportunity. Unfortunately, they will continue to be introduced as Clinton insiders even though they are the opposite.

No one speaks for Hillary and she ain't talkin' and that is why the press is so wound up. They want at her. They want her to announce NOW so they can hound her. Fuck 'em.

[Capt. Obvious]

19. If it wasn't for Mark Penn

Lanny would have been the guy I hated the most from her 2008 team.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

2. LOL, I agree with Lanny that Jebbie's disqualified himself from running for President. That's his best argument? Laughable.

[malaise]

5. Saw it live

He was right and he called M$Greedia on the double standards. I did laugh.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. M$NBC is in its death throes and is just greasing the skids before they change formats.

I suspect there will be an interim period where all they show is "Lock Up" and old reruns of "To Catch A Predator".

[malaise]

15. I suspect we'll still be watching Contessa Brewer reruns

when her kids are in college

[Capt. Obvious]

16. They don't even show To Catch A Predator anymore

Now I have nothing to watch Sunday nights after football ends.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

20. I forgot the exact time period

Do you remember when MSNBC didn't have live news during the day and filled the time with reruns of "Lifestyles Of The Rich and Famous" ?

[Capt. Obvious]

21. Never knew that

I think they had news when I started watching - but they didn't have any weekend news at all. Just prison shows.

Now they at least show Contessa Brewer's part time gig on the weekends: Stuff Blowing Up Part 9.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

22. I suspect "Hardball" is one of the few shows that survives the format change./NT

[Capt. Obvious]

23. Maybe Tucker could get his old job back

MSNBC has a bow tie quota to fill.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

24. He's happily and comfortably ensconced at FOX and at home with his friends

[HereSince1628]

6. Fla isn't DC the rules could be different, if HRC did nothing wrong that's enough

and that's the line that should b held.

Getting angry and defensive never works in these situations it just shows that a touch has been felt on a sensitive spot.

Looking at the language used by the Clinton camp, they talk about things done in the spirit of the law...which when it comes from rooms with lawyers, and Clinton is a lawyer herself, isn't chosen by mistake. People notice that sort of thing.

The Clinton camp can declare victory and not talk about this anymore, or they can be careful and leave few things hanging as low fruit for people keen to grab nuance.

[TheKentuckian]

7. I just thought it looked bad but if Lanny is out running it then it looks worse.

[pennylane100]

8. I am getting a little (actually a lot) annoyed about this email story

As I understand it, there was no rule in place, at that time, that prevented her from using her own email. She did use her own server.
If it was not against the law, let it drop. For god's sake let it drop and get back to real problems like BENGHAZI.

[Capt. Obvious]

10. As I understand the arguments

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

26. Does that mean you think Hillary intentionally broke the law with these emails for a nefarious

reason or one that would have involved profit in some manner?

I mean you post Nixon here and we all know what he did, do you think Hillary did something similar?

[tularetom]

32. Technically she did not commit a felony

Hell of an endorsement, don't you think?

Do you really want four years of arguing over the definition of "is"?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

33. By any metric the Clinton years were the best years in the history of the republic

-Some of the lowest peacetime unemployment rates were recorded during Bill Clinton's tenure
-The longest economic expansion in the history of the republic was recorded during Bill Clinton's tenure
-The highest rate of African American home ownership was recorded during Bill Clinton's tenure.
- The poverty rate was at its lowest in generations under Bill Clinton's tenure.
-The abortion rate was at its lowest level in a generation under Bill Clinton's tenure; people were confident about the future, fucking a lot, and keeping the kids.


That's why Bill Clinton is arguably America's most popular living politician:




http://www.gallup.com/poll/171794/clinton-elder-bush-positively-rated-living-presidents.aspx

The so called Clinton scandals were great background music to the most prosperous and peaceful decade of the twentieth century

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

34. So she is guilty of committing a?

[Capt. Obvious]

36. Technically Nixon was guilty of nothing

[Metric System]

13. The original NYT article that broke the other night seemed to suggest a law was broken. What law, it

didn't say. But Hillary may have done something ILLEGAL, the article suggested. What a SCANDAL! That's what made this story blow up so fast. Now it appears no laws were broken, but the media has a new chew toy and they aren't ready to let go. The coverage has gone from "Was it illegal?" to "Was it secure?"

[DURHAM D]

17. I disagree.

It has gone to "It is Hillary's fault that the media made up shit."

[Faux pas]

9. Kickin'

[onpatrol98]

25. Kudos to Tamron Hall for keeping her cool with Lanny Davis...

He was a rude, jerk.

And, when Lanny said...

"Excuse me! Governor Bush did," Davis shot back. "When you make these distinctions, you're in argument, not doing facts. You want to argue with me, that's your right as a host of a program."

Tamron could have also responded that...

"Jeb was also not Secretary of State and one of the most powerful persons in the US Government, working for a President expressing a call for transparency." But, I thought she was quite gracious.

It's a non issue. I think Lanny and Clinton would be much better served CALMLY treating it as such, instead of trying to say, well...when Jeb was Governor of Florida...he did it too. If Jeb is the benchmark, we're doomed already.

I think one of our ambassadors under Clinton was ousted during her era for using personal email. I can't think of his name. But, they need cool operators squashing it. Not jerks...just my opinion.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

27. Scott Gration, ambassador to Kenya, kicked out in 2012. nt

[Purveyor]

28. I just don't know if I can take it when the Clinton camp starts rolling out

these weasels. Davis, Carville, Begala, et al.

[tularetom]

29. Lanny Fucking Davis? RU serious?

They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel if that twerp is the best spokesidiot they can come up with.

Looks like desperation is setting in.

[Starry Messenger]

30. It's great that this is getting a workout now.

By the time the election comes around, no one will care.

[Dreamer Tatum]

31. One of his arguments, for which I commend his straight face, goes like this:

"Thousands of people got emails from the server. They knew about it. Therefore, all is out in the open and
there is no harm and no foul."

Um, yeah.

[still_one]

35. Clinton really should not have Lanny Davis as a spokesperson. He is a pretty abrasive fellow