Mark Penn Responds To Scarborough, Critics: ‘My Interest Here Is In Good Government,’ ‘Better Politics’
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MacCALLUM: "Here now to defend himself is mark Penn. Good to see you tonight. Are you getting paid by Fox News? Not that that’s a bad thing, lots of upstanding individuals get paid by Fox News. Are you under contract?"
PENN: "It was a tax on me when I was in political light, having a fox contract. No, I’m not being paid by Fox in any way."
MacCALLUM: "So Joe Scarborough, some of the people that you worked with on the Clinton campaign. They think they’re something wrong with you. Speak out those people were not there in 98. Where there White House was turned upside down at people’s lives were turned upside down, and my interest here was a good government and better politics. Taking the criminalization unless you really have the firmest of evidence, which certainly this investigation didn’t have. I think it’s only reasonable to start to question this investigation after you look at the struck page text. I mean, that alone blew this thing open. Once this report comes from the independent counsel —"
MacCALLUM: "But they also say, big deal. They criticized the president. They cannot like the president and still do their job."
PENN: "That insurance insurance policy really suggested something else was going on. Now you have the investigation going on by the igs of the doj. That could blow the whole thing wide open. Now if that report is soft, I could take back some of my opinions. But my opinions are based on the experience I have and a fair reading of the evidence that’s come out here which raises the questions, when did it get started, how did they create the powers to create a government within a government that is not accountable to the attorney general, Congress or the president?"
MacCALLUM: "The Mueller report is not out yet, the ig report is not out yet, and conclusions have been completely drawn. They know what the evidence is, they decided what the outcome is on this, and the problem with mark Penn spouting this stuff is that some Democrat will look at him and say, he’s a Democrat. And you might change your mind. That’s what he said is so scary about this."
PENN: "I’m sure he wishes more Republicans would say, this is wrong. We shouldn’t be disrupting the country for this. I want more Democrats to go out and say that now. You have to take them really seriously even more seriously, and you have always said that he lived through 1998 and so many people get swept up in it. These young staffers paying their legal bills, it makes them never want to work in politics again."
