Wasserman Schultz, Asked About DNC Debates: GOP ‘Xenophobic,’ ‘Un-American’

BLITZER: “I don’t know if you heard my interview at the top of the hour with Sean Spicer, the communications director for the Republican National Committee —“

SCHULTZ: “No, I didn’t.”

BLITZER: “Like other Republicans, he keeps saying that you as the chair of the DNC  he didn’t mentioned you by name, but he said that Democrats — they try to bury these Democratic presidential debates on a Saturday night — (Laughter) — when people are not even home watching television, because they don’t want Hillary Clinton to have much of a challenge. What’s your response to that assertion?”

SCHULTZ: “I’ll point out that the RNC has all of the broadcast network debates on a Saturday night as well. So, you know, the bottom line is that these — these network debates, we have our CNN debate and then all of our other debates are on the broadcast networks. Those schedules are quite a bit less flexible, and through our candidate forums and our debates, we are garnering large audiences and our candidates are also out on the campaign trail making sure that — that we can spread our message, and draw the contrast between Democrats who want to help Americans build the cornerstones of a middle-class life, and Republicans all of whom want to take that away and go back to policies that got us into the worst economic crisis since the ‘Great Depression, and who want to roll up these — the ability for anyone to come to the country, shut the United States down as a refuge, that we have traditionally been to people fleeing persecution. The xenophobia and the un-American policies that have come out of the Republican field, I am sure will continue, and as a result in large part from their extremism, the Democratic nominee eventually will be the president of the United States.”