Donna Brazile allegedly warned Hillary Clinton's campaign about a Democratic town hall question

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last updated October 11, 2016

Former CNN contributor and one-time Bill Clinton adviser Donna Brazile apparently tipped off the Clinton campaign about a potentially difficult question before the CNN Democratic presidential town hall debate last March, a WikiLeaks email seems to reveal.

The email, allegedly from Brazile to Clinton's communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, has the subject line "From time to time I get the questions in advance." The body of the email said:

Here's one that worries me about HRC.DEATH PENALTY19 states and the District of Columbia have banned the death penalty. 31 states, including Ohio, still have the death penalty. According to the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, since 1973, 156 people have been on death row and later set free. Since 1976, 1,414 people have been executed in the U.S. That's 11 percent of Americans who were sentenced to die, but later exonerated and freed. Should Ohio and the 30 other states join the current list and abolish the death penalty? [WikiLeaks]