DNC’s Wasserman-Schultz Clashes with Andrea Mitchell Over Hillary Marine Story

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz got very testy with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC today for asking about Hillary Clinton‘s claim that she signed up for the Marines.

This week Clinton retold a story that she tried to join in the 70s, and questions have been raised in the media about it. WaPo‘s fact checker gave it two Pinocchios.

Mitchell said to Wasserman-Schultz it was a little strange that Clinton would want to join when she was so anti-war. Wasserman-Schultz asked, “Why on earth are we talking about this?”

Mitchell said because Clinton brought it up in the first place, but Wasserman-Schultz tried to bring things back to issues that matter, while praising Clinton for talking about women in the military in the first place.

She said it’s a personal story and you just can’t “go back and ask a recruiter,” and asking, “Do we need every single experience in a person’s life to be written in stone and blood and verifiable?”

And before you ask the obvious question, yes, she did also bring up Ben Carson, and actually said “the same goes for stories” about him.

Watch above, via MSNBC.

[h/t Daily Caller]
[image via screengrab]

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