CBS’s Dickerson: Hillary Clinton’s E-Mail Scandal Is ‘a Stupid Issue’

‘On an important policy issue that really matters to what a lot of people think is the central question of the campaign, which is how do you help people with wages, bread and butter stuff that she’s potentially being sneaky on’

CBS’s Dickerson: Hillary Clinton’s E-Mail Scandal Is ‘A Stupid Issue’ (NewsBusters

 In Slate’s weekly “Political Gabfest” podcast, CBS News political director and Face the Nation host John Dickerson proclaimed that Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal is “a stupid issue” unlike the debate over a $15 minimum wage because that’s “the central question of the campaign, which is how do you help people with wages.”

Dickerson’s slip came during a discussion with fellow Slate writers Emily Bazelon and David Plotz over the influence socialist Senator Bernie Sanders has had on the presidential campaign and how he’s forced Clinton farther to the left on issues like wages.

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