He then went on to become a report at wplg, and now you know him for his remarkable sunday Morning Program called this week in south florida, which is on at 11 30 sundays and his name is michael putney. Please give him a big, big welcome. [applause] good evening. Thanks to mitchell, thanks to so many others have made the book k fair one of our Great Community events. Ive been coming here for what, 30 years, and its my privilege tonight to briefly introduce to outstanding, smart, tough, politically sophisticated and acerbic women who are going to yes. [applause] who have so much to say about our current political scene and what is to come. Let me begin by saying ana navarro, ive known her for my years. She is just about as acerbic as they come, smarter, whip smart, faster than a speeding bullet with a retort, a come back, a put down. Certainly saw that when the access Hollywood Tape came out. Ana like to quote it verbatim. [laughing] i dont know people at cnn and abc loved it, but i loved it. She was born in nicaragua, cae to the u. S. At the age of eight, has liquor since then. In other words, she is a miami and. [applause] yes. Our great diversity. And she is a registered republican of the Jeb Bush John mccain variety i think. [applause] needless to say, Donna Brazile is a democrat. She was born in new orleans, raised there, went to school in louisiana. We got to know her in 2000 when she ran Outdoors Campaign which of course ended in our state how gore as so many things do, begin as well. [laughing] she was the Democratic National committee in a realm chair from july 2016 to february of 2017, succeeding Debbie Wasserman schultz. I think they probably will Say Something about why she succeeded debbie. And if you want to see more, i interviewed don a few minutes ago, we will run the interview on sunday morning. I loved it, before the 2008 Democratic National convention, donna told Stephen Colbert quote, look, im a woman so i like hillary. Im black i like obama. And also am grumpy so i like mccain. [laughing] i dont think shes in a grumpy mood. Shes in a great mood, aside from one hour to occur to get her from her hotel. So please welcome to outstanding women, Donna Brazile and ana navarro. [applause] and given court circumstances i think you should go on the right. Did you all know she has african descent . Shes descendent of a slave . I have known for a long time that she was a sister. This is my sister from another mother. [laughing] hello. Im in your home. Hello, girl welcome. The end but all right. First of all, do you know this little book fair begin puzzle book fair 34 years ago. I am so proud of this book fair. [applause] im from miami so we like superlatives. I think its the best damn literary event in the world. I agree with you. I agree. You know, the heat is playing tonight, right . But this is another kind of feet were going to set off. Were going to set off a heat wave. In this book you talk a lot about storms. Since you set foot in this town it hasnt stopped raining. Be careful, and next will be i dont know what is going to take. Maybe well get down to zelda or so we for someone to lead Climate Change in the white house. We worry about that in miami because were going to drown. We are the first ones to go. On from new orleans and we have four seasons, shrimp, crawdad [laughing] lasting of what is now the storm. I bent a little frazzled. They put up a termite cant in my house this morning, so i thought that it was very fitting that after dinner with the bugs in florida we could talk about the bugs in washington. Amen, amen. A lot of bugging going on. You need to get a little boric acid. I need to come over and do a little i have no idea what you just said. Cleaning is not my forte. I just finished reading the book. Took you for ever to finally mail it to me. You didnt even sign it. The book made me a little sad. The book made me a little sad because i live a lot of it. As your friend, as as a sister, azucena and colleague, as a political activist, as an american. The threat on democracy at the 2016 election has met, i think its something that when i read about in pages pages it just makes me so sad. Because you go through a Chronological Order but it also may be mad because i lived through this with you, a lot of it, the murder. You were with me. The death of your dog who you adored. Love my booty white. The loss of your job at cnn, which was a family for you. The loss of the election. The loss of friends. And so i think this election has been hard for you, and i heard a lot of pain and a lot of grief in your voice in this book. So how are you doing . How are you doing now . Do you want me to dance . Stop. Last time you danced you lost an election. [laughing] thats true. I did dance across the stage, because i thought i had it. I thought i could do the job. I thought i was ready to do the job. I didnt want the job. I got the job because the party was hacked. As result of the hacking and the release of the, the selective release of certain emails, i took the job when debbie stepped aside. I stepped back up. How am i feeling now . Im still disappointed that people are not outraged by the fact that we have a Foreign Government interfering in our election. I live in real time. A year ago people call the quoteunquote crazy. They called me crazy again. I think youve gone crazy but go ahead. Next time since you are my friend, next time i take a job that doesnt pay money, call me crazy. [laughing] i told you not to take it. You did. I told you you were a masochist. You did. I i told you it would be thankless. And when i took this job i had no idea the extent of the hacking. I knew that a few emails had been leaked. I knew that several donors have been compromised. I knew that many of our staff people were under attack and harassed that i i know i did tt would impact not just my life personally but our country. And so there was a moment when i would call you, like i need republicans, we cannot do this alone. Because our country was being attacked by a hostile Foreign Government. Its like somebody comes in and of major house, they get in your house and they say that they committed the window or through the door . But unlike watergate when the action came to the door, this was a 21st century crime, cybercrime. And no one at the dnc because of the layers we had at the dnc, no one told the person at the top the things are not happening the right way. So by the time i became chair it was already a mark. After i received my present one to go to the pentagon. They need yellow tape around it. We had suspicious packages. A few months before somebody said that was a snake. Then i started getting all those crazy quoteunquote threats. How am i doing now . I want the American People to be outraged because we should never let this happen again. [applause] no one should interfere in our elections. So john podesta is, what is it called, risotto . We know his recipe. You know that i you didnt see the ones they give to vernier urls because wikileaks didnt see if you saw those. They wanted you to see the hillary wants, then darted have to be that she was, what, what donald trump was seen every night. I saw every night. By the way, we are on the enemies list. Does he like you . No, but he likes you and it worries me. Thats not love. He is now calling you donna b. What does that mean . I dont know what he stands for. [laughing] i can assure you there is nothing going on. I dont know, do. Baby, hes not my type. And you are not is. But if i did can be in miss usa i would come up with the first place. For the woman who did not wear the bikini. You got out ahead of schedule of me but go ahead. You talk about sending the email. Is incredible how much 2060 of the democratic side in particular was all about emails, the email server, you know, the email with the questions. The email in huma abedin can you believe this . Might have been decided by a sex scandal not involving bill clinton . Anyway, it was all about emails. Emails, emails come emails. You just talked about the emails you sent to the hillary campaign. Lets clear this up. I was confused by the book. Ive been confused by some of your answers. Did you send emails with Big Questions to Hillary Clinton . I give everybody heads up. So you sent some to bernie . Lets go back. The reason why i quit cnn that night was that scene and want to be to put out a statement that i thought was untrue, that i said i dont want you to do that. I also said dont put my life at stake. Because at this point in the campaign i recognized what people were doing with these emails and i said, dont threaten me. Unlike some people i dont have secret service, i just have jesus. Which i told Michelle Obama once, and she looked at me and i said yeah. [laughing] so cnn wanted to say that i sent questions from them. Where you and i would speak i know you didnt take questions from cnn the dozens of possible to get questions from cnn. We know how this works. Cnn, and i suspect other networks, but we know have seen in works, establish something is called the cone of silence, a special room. And none of us are allowed anywhere near it. Look, were not even in the same hotel. The other one, the ritzcarlton. We know because i you got the questions but you did not get them from cnn. First of all, can we talk . Go ahead. If you read the questions, you will know that they never came from cnn. What cnn did get from it was a lot of debate because i was on the precipice of debate. But i was under pressure to expand the member number of debates, town halls and form and is also under pressure from black lives matter and many activist expand the quoteunquote diversity because we were, i love anderson, i love wolf, i love jake and dana but they dont look like me or you, right . Right. And so the pressure i was under as the vice chair of the party, that is a scene and commentator. I was under another precious evening. The pressure was to produce diversity as well as additional questions and topics that had not been addressed. When we expanded the number of debates and town halls and other forums, the bulk of which went to cnn, thank you very much, nobody said thank you. And i i love cnn. I still love cnn. I still want you. But when we expanded and we were about to Start Talking about criminal justice reform, death penalty, this is my favorite one, the flint water crisis, i have been working with Roland Martin working with a bunch of other people, we decided was then go get another quoteunquote stale debate will we talk about emails, we had worked together, and weve come up with a lot of questions. And yes, i give all of the candidates heads up. And also said in the book i used to give republicans heads up when i was on the panel with him and said guess what, heres the topics. Ive always given people heads up. So you say in this since his emails was a mistake, i will forever regret. Absolutely. If you will have your email sooner people i see the ones but not the other ones, but when i went back to look for the other debate questions and all the other stuff ive done, guess what . My files had been wiped clean. I couldnt defend myself. I took all the hip. For me its been difficult and its been painful, as you know. I love you. Youre my sister. I stood up for you and i defended you. At the same time i very much understand the need that cnn has and the duty to have to defend their journalistic integrity and their brand. Particularly in the face of such attacks right of fake news and any and all these attacks. In the question didnt come from cnn. Cnns process was in pierce. They said Donna Brazile to get water from flint, michigan, as a pr statement. Donna brazile, one of the people she to was one of the questions later that night. You dont send don out to talk to people who may be asking questions. So she would teach you to confess everything you committed in your life. So bottom line, cnn process was not pierced. Do you regret having sent the emails, so can we just all be friends . Can i Say Something to you . I really, i have found these exchanges painful. Of all of the things, and i said this in the book, i regretted this because i couldnt come im catholic, ladies and gentlemen,. You know, i also have probably thick skin, and if i do something bad, i will do penance because thats the only way to get back to grace, and i, the first thing i did when i could not find my emails because there were dnc emails hacked install, i called Bernie Sanders and i said i need help. I said, you know what, bernie steffen at independently on television when i was getting beat up. They knew i was up there. The one thing i will always say, i will be fair with you, im still going to try to fight you but on a firefighter. But i am a fair fighter. The Hillary Clinton campaign, john podesta, didnt go out and verify that these were his emails. Hasnt john podesta gone out yet and said that is my result in recipe . No. He is not verified any of the wikileaks stuff. The only person, the only person in america that has verify the emails from wikileaks, that we now know donald trump, jr. Was orchestrated, the only person who has verify that is me. [applause] its okay, im a big girl. I take my hits. Because i give it out. I dish, too. But all i want us to learn from the hacking of 2016 is that we can no longer as a country believe that our elections are secured from cyber attacks. If we learned anything from reading my 260 page book, it is that you can no longer get a thumb drive at a convention and go stick it in your computer. You can no longer go around with your quoteunquote your password in your home address or your last name. If you dont have or password, remember . Right, or one, two, three, four. If my book tells you its that we have to take prudent steps to secure our democracy to ensure that this doesnt happen again. Look, if somebody offers you rubles to place an ad [laughing] and this is what, ana, i call her my sister because during some of the worst days she would call me late at night, are you home . When i didnt get a call from a lot of people, she would call me and say let me take you to lunch. Sometimes when you lose elections, people lose your name. They dont know you anymore until they can call you again when they are running again. They dont worry if your bills are being paid, if youre able to get back up. They move on. They go back to their wonderful lives, and you know who stuck around to make sure all of the kids were okay . Me. Do you know who made sure the kids Start Health Insurance . Me. Do you know who had to keep raising money . Me. And you know who made sure i was being taken care of . This woman, thats why shes my friend. Thats why shes in my book. [applause] and im going to let her sign my book. I think too often nowadays we are defining relationship and friendship, be it in the workplace, families, marriages, friendships, politics. That strikes me as a dumb thing to do. This will pass, folks. This will pass. To lose all real friendship because somebody may have voted for somebody different than you did, you know, im not sure that been you can to find that as a real friendship. So talking about friendships, you know, this book, was this book hard to write . Im looking at page 42. 42. Man, you go after some friends. You said he, obama, had left the dnc in debt. Hillary failed it out so she could control it, and Debbie Wasserman schultz went along with all of this because she liked the power of being chair but not the responsibility. So how are your friendships with the clintons and the obamas these days . [laughing] i dont ask to see anyone but god. But more importantly, and politics i answer to you the voter and you the donor. This is evident about a candidate for a campaign. Its about our democracy and our people. I started at the age of nine because i wanted a playground. While the City Council Candidate promised a playground kept his promise, to me it was all about getting people active, engaged and involved in the political process. When you walk out of the building and you leave it with 23. 5 billion in debt, you ought to be ashamed of yourself if the person who walks behind you into the room find out that people are getting paid 25,000 a month and they dont even come in the offices. I am driving my car with my gas. I am flying to florida and it or else with my nichols, my dimes and theyre getting 25 grand a month. Do you think im going to sit there and say madam chair, do you want to drive . No. I dont even like uber. You know i will never have one of those cars with nobody behind it, hell no. We like to control the wheel. Then the next day, madam chair, you need a consultant . No. Were broke. [laughing] madam chair, and im like a cat that madam chair stuff. Im donna. And no, i want to win but ive got to get the debt down. So what to some of our friends and i said i need you to take 10,000, not taking, not not 25, not 30. I made a lot of enemies. Come on here im reporting to you, the voter, you the Donor CommunityAmerican People. Theyre all my friends in the looting of the gravy train at the didnt like it that i called it the gravy train. It was a gravy train. Have you heard from hillary, bill . No. Barack . Did they call me before . Michelle . They called me when the party was in trouble. Im the one who cleans up behind everybody. How about the time you throughout your knee . It still hurts, too. Look, i love them all. If i had to do it all over again i would do it because i love them. Why did you write this book . No one wanted to tell the true story. Do you think is going to wait until director mueller of the congressional commit to tell that we were hacked and that they were stealing our data . Do you think is going to wait until the American People woke up and figured that out . No. I lived the hacking of 2016. I experienced have tried to discredit elections and throw out our democracy and hurt our nominees and i wanted to tell it. [applause] can i tell you something . This is my second book. When you lose the