Jake Tapper Says Hillary Was 'Fairly Moderate' -- Then Retracts It

Jeffrey Meyer | July 5, 2015
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Video cross-posted here at NewsBusters. On Sunday’s State of the Union, host Jake Tapper was talking to his panel about the enthusiasm gap between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton among liberals. Tapper asked Van Jones: “ Van, when she was a senator, correct me if I'm wrong, she was a fairly moderate Democrat. I mean she wasn't this progressive firebrand?” Jones agreed: “And neither was the Democratic Party, a party of firebrands.”