Devine: Clinton’s Support of Wall St. Is Because ‘Wall St. Is Underpinning’ Her Campaign

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MELBER: “Tad Devine, and a long time Democratic politics guru. Good evening to you, Tad.”
DEVINE: “Hi, Ari.”
MELBER: “As a factual matter, he did vote, of course, against the original TARP authorization, which had a lot of money for Wall Street. And frankly, controversial for that nature. And then January 15th, 2009, Barack Obama incoming, voted against releasing the remaining 350 mill that went to the auto industry. What do you protest?”
DEVINE: “Well, I protest the fact in December 2008 he voted for the auto bailout, okay? And at that time he publicly stated that he supported bailing out the auto industry. It was disingenuous of them to say he opposed. What he opposed was a huge bailout of Wall Street. That’s what he opposed. For them to make that connection is just wrong.”
MELBER: “You don’t think the 350 mill didn’t have anything to do with anything that went elsewhere?”
DEVINE: “Most of that money went to Wall Street to bail out banks. Bern why I was against the middle class of America bailing out the banks of Wall Street. He refuses to take their money. She’s taking tens of millions of dollars in Super PAC. Even though they said they wouldn’t use the Super PACs in the primaries, they’re using them today. We would submit that the — her support of wall street is due to the fact that wall street is underpinning her campaign today financially.”
MELBER: “What do you think was Sanders’ best moment tonight?”
DEVINE: “Well, I think talking about trade policy. Particularly here in Michigan, here in flint. The fact that he had a great discussion of trade policy with her. And made the case that the disastrous deals of the ‘90s and other times as well have cost millions of American jobs. Hillary Clinton invokes the ‘90s when it’s to her advantage. She said we shouldn’t talk about the ‘90s when we talk about NAFTA. I think the case he made will resonate across the country.”
MELBER: “Something the Clinton campaign said earlier on this broadcast. Podesta saying you have a flip-flop-flip on the gun immunity bill. He voted for it, then he said he basically regretted that vote. And tonight he was making a defense of it, saying if you don’t give them blanket immunity, you couldn’t be able to produce guns in the U.S. Your response?”
DEVINE: “My response is, what he was saying is, that if every gun manufacturer is sued, every time someone uses a gun to kill someone, we’ll have no guns in the United States. Very logical argument. The biggest flip-flop tonight was after the opening statements when Hillary Clinton said she’s calling for the resignation of the Michigan governor. It did take a minute for her to change her position. I’m glad on all these issues where she changed her position, the transpacific partnership, the keystone pipeline, now the resignation of Michigan’s governor. It shows that Bernie is setting the agenda for this debate. She wants to be where Bernie is on issues.”