MSNBC Panel Laughs at Hillary’s Comm. Director as She’s Struggling with Media Rope

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SCARBOROUGH: “Nicole is a great admirer of yours by the way. Can we show the rope line again? Nicolle wishes that she had thought of this when working at the Bush White House. Any comment on that?”

PALMIERI: “I thought we were going to see some video.”

SCARBOROUGH: “There is the video. What do you think? Is that the future of presidential press reporting?”

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GEIST: “What happened here?”

PALMIERI: “So I think that, you know, here's – it’s a good time to talk about our theory – (laughter) -- on press access and the campaign. So we try to allow as much access as possible. But my view is it can’t get in the way of her being able to campaign, right? So we have -- we're doing smaller events. That's really important to her. That’s like the foundation that she wants to get at the beginning of the campaign and talking with voters. So we have -- what we tried here was, you know, you could do a thing where you preset press along the way. And we said, let’s let them, let’s just have it be open. That's how we did in other parades and see what happens. And I think, I wasn't there but I saw some press reports that described it as chaotic. And so they put the rope up to so that the parade could continue and she could be able to talk to voters.” [Crosstalk]

WALLACE: “Did she think about putting them in the back of an open pickup truck? We used to do that sometimes and then they roll.”

PALMIERI: “Yeah, we don't have. We don't have all of the vehicles that you might have in the campaign later. There was -- we could have had them preset along the way. That was another option, right? But that would be more restrictive.”