Carl Bernstein - "White House horrified at how Hillary Clinton is blowing up her campaign"

Carl Bernstein lays into Clinton for basically shooting herself in the foot with these campaign missteps and it’s all her own fault. He claims the White House is furious with her over this. Bernstein knows a thing or two about scandals and when they actually have legs. This transcript story and the enormous fees paid definitely has legs according to Bernstein:

Bernstein likens these transcripts of Clinton’s speeches and her ‘look into it’ statement to Nixon’s stonewalling on the Watergate tapes. Damning words:

“And they're worried that the Democrats could blow -- they are horrified that the whole business of the transcripts, accepting the money, that she could blow the Democrats' chance for White House. They want her to win. Obama wants her to win. But Sanders has shown how vulnerable she is. These ethical lapses have tied the White House up in knots. They don't know what to do. They're beside themselves. Now, you've got a situation with these transcripts a little like Richard Nixon and his tapes that he stonewalled and didn't release. ”

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“No, what I'm saying that if she stone-walls on them and does not release them and enables the Republicans to paint her again into a corner. This is not just a vast right-wing conspiracy that is causing her problems. She has caused herself these problems. The server is not the vast right-wing conspiracy. It's Hillary Clinton deciding that she could put a server in her closet, the same with these transcripts, the same with accepting this money in a presidential year when she knew that she was going to probably be running for president. To the people in the White House I talked to, it is unfathomable that she did this and has endangered President Obama's legacy. As I say, they are terrified ”

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”Some of this is unanswerable because it represents such terrible judgment, which is what people in the White House are saying. They're just dumbfounded by this and want her to get back on track.”

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“It's disingenuous. She knew she might. And this has been a problem I say in the last pages of "A Woman in Charge," my book on Hillary written before she ran the last time, she has had a difficult problem with the truth going back to the Arkansas years. It's not about outright lying. It's about obfuscation. It's about not being transparent. “

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“Exactly, and particularly with young people he is tuning in and touching a nerve in mainstream America and with young women, which is Hillary Clinton's worst nightmare. In fact, I think you have to go back to the candidacy of Bobby Kennedy in 1968 -- and I don't want to care Sanders and Kennedy in some regards, but this is a movement. He's right, Sanders. He has started a movement. And that, too, has got the White House very upset.”

Video at link: Carl Bernstein - "White House horrified at how Hillary Clinton is blowing up her campaign"

Full transcript here thanks to leonard145b

UPDATE: Hillary say’s she’ll release her transcripts when: 

“Yeah, you know, here’s another thing I want to say. Let everybody who has ever given a speech to any private group, under any circumstances, release them, all release them at the same time.”