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Appearing on Wednesday’s NBC Today, Bloomberg Politics editor Mark Halperin tried to dismiss the importance of Clinton campaign e-mails released by Wikileaks as being too “inside baseball” and “complicated” for voters to grasp. He then argued the issue would only matter if journalists actually pressed the Democratic nominee on the topic.
Following a report from correspondent Kristen Welker on Hillary Clinton “facing more tough questions about hacked e-mails,” co-host Matt Lauer asked Halperin: “Mark, scale of one to ten, one being a non-event, ten being a campaign-shaking event, where do these Wikileaks documents fall for Hillary Clinton?” Halperin replied: “Three today with the potential to go to eight as reporters dig in to some of this stuff and more come.”