NBC Touts Possible Hillary Running Mate Dismissing E-Mail Scandal as ‘Side Show’

Kyle Drennen | May 26, 2015
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In a story for Tuesday’s NBC Today devoid of any Hillary Clinton critics, correspondent Andrea Mitchell highlighted “one Democratic ally,” Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, “considered a potential running mate by some should Clinton win the nomination,” dismissing the e-mail scandal still swirling around the former Secretary of State as a “side show.”

A soundbite ran of Castro proclaiming: “What you have here with these e-mails is basically a witch hunt.”