CNN’s Brianna Keilar just nabbed one of the biggest interviews of the year: the first national interview with ex- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton since her campaign launch.
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Clinton will begin doing national media interviews in the next week, Fox News Howard Kurtz reported. She has provided local news outlets in early-voting states like Iowa and New Hampshire with usable quotes. Her announcement in April that she was running for the Democratic presidential nomination was followed by weeks in which she refused to answer substantive inquiries from the press.
The final straw, however, came during a Fourth of July parade in New Hampshire this past Saturday, when Clinton aides literally herded reporters through the streets of Gorham with a rope, dragging them away if they got too close to the candidate.
“So we try to allow as much access as possible, but my view is, it can’t get in the way of her being able to campaign, right?” said Jennifer Palmieri, the campaign’s director of communications said during a roundtable discussion Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”.
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“Interestingly, Keilar recently attended the wedding of an aide to Hillary Clinton“, reports Weekly Standard scribe Daniel Halper, citing Ms. Keilar’s presence at the June nuptials of Adam Parkhomenko, now a staffer on Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign and a co-founder of Ready for Hillary, to Kirby Hoag, a ex- staffer of the organization. Martin O’Malley, George Pataki, and Jim Webb, have yet to fully register on the national radar and have no interviews comparable in scale to the other candidates.
