Brzezinski to De Blasio: How Does Clinton Relate to Someone Below the Poverty Line?

SCARBOROUGH: “With us now, we’ve got the Democratic mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio. Mr. mayor, great to have you here.”
DE BLASIO: “Thank you, Joe.”
BRZEZINSKI: “Yeah, a lot of work — a lot of real talk about the weather situation and how New York did in just a moment. But, I want to talk about that moment. Earlier in the show, just to be transparent — during the break you all said, Mika, come on, calm down. Obviously Hillary Clinton has worked all of her life tirelessly to help people. I think what I felt when I listened to that sound bite and the question I would have for someone like you who supports Hillary Clinton is explain to me how that woman who struggles to get by on $10,000 a year can relate to a candidate who maybe has made $600,000 in one year from speeches at Goldman Sachs and knew she was going to be running for president, who pushed her husband to veto a bankruptcy bill and then voted for it as senator. Like — how does that woman relate when she is struggling just to get by every day, and she has a degree.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Yeah. How does Hillary relate to her?”
DE BLASIO: “Last night you saw Hillary talk about the town hall, the fight for health insurance reform and taking on the big insurance companies. And I remember that vividly. Maybe some people who are younger don’t remember just how dramatic that struggle was, where she had the entire American insurance industry against her personally. Millions and millions of dollars —“
SCARBOROUGH: “Let’s back in — back in ‘93 and ‘94.”
BRZEZINSKI: “I remember.”
DE BLASIO: “’93 and ‘94 — and that was to fight for tens of millions of people who didn’t have health insurance. I think when the Clinton administration put family and medical leave into place, which was unheard of previously to actually acknowledge what working families were going through, the work Hillary did with the children’s defense fund on behalf of mothers and children who didn’t have the kind of support they deserve. This has been her whole life and —”
SCARBOROUGH: “Has she — has she changed?”
DE BLASIO: “I don’t think she has changed. I think last night I think she articulated that with real passion which I appreciate, because the history is clear. We’ve all seen it front for our very eyes for decades. That woman, that struggling woman we just saw a moment ago needs someone in the White House who knows how to take on powerful people.”