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Jessica Yellin

lines on the record: 55
first: 2015-10-26
most recent: 2015-10-26
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Right after I graduated college, it was 1993, and I had two offers. I could either go to New York and learn to write on a magazine, and then I got an internship at the White House. And my dad, who had always been into politics and thought, this is a gem of an opportunity. You've got to go to the White House. So I did what my parents wanted. And my first assignment was the healthcare war room. That's when they were. Remember first trying healthcare. And I remember my job was to write briefings on state and local issues in healthcare. So if he's going to a small town in Illinois, what are the local issues there for healthcare? And I remember I got this briefing, this note about what I had to detail. And I went up to one of my bosses and I said, what is HMO? Because I had no clue. So, you know, I was really wet behind the years at that time.”
2015-10-26 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 7 - Jessica Yellin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Noville Clinton got heated and really took umbrage and became very defensive. But, you know, for me, it was really the first time a reporter had said race in that sort of way. Are you being racially divisive? And I had gotten a ton of calls from former Clinton supporters, from former Clinton operatives before that, saying we're really upset about this, that he's doing this in this way. And so I felt justified asking the question. I felt that it was legitimate because it's what a lot of people were saying privately. But I took a risk saying it out loud. And when it exploded, I didn't know which way that was going to cut.”
2015-10-26 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 7 - Jessica Yellin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That was me, oh, they didn't want to let me do an interview with him that day. And so I snuck into the rope line and I asked him a question that to this day I sort of cannot believe I asked. I said, you know, your campaign manager, Mr. President, your South Carolina director, Des Carputlian, said that he hasn't seen a Democrat inject racial politics into a primary this way since Liatwater was alive. And Clinton did a double take. He said, Excuse me, Liatwater? Yeah.”
2015-10-26 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 7 - Jessica Yellin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As I recall, the experience was that there was a phraseology was essentially that Hillary Clinton's, the policies Hillary Clinton had endorsed, created an environment in which this was allowed to arise. What ended up happening was what I think you said may have not been the full intention. Perhaps it wasn't as artfully phrased as if we could both go back and do it again. You might have done it. It became a mini tempest in a teapot that day that died for almost everybody except for you and Bill Clinton. And I would say that there are a lot of people I pissed off that year. I don't know that Bill Clinton has forgiven me for asking him whether he injected racial politics into this campaign, which is what I asked him in South Carolina.”
2015-10-26 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 7 - Jessica Yellin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because I feel like this is a Rachamon, and you had yours and we can make a play of it someday. It could tell a story of that campaign.”
2015-10-26 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 7 - Jessica Yellin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source