Carville Broke CNN Rule To Raise Money For Clinton

Carville acknowledged, though, that as a CNN analyst he shouldn't have allowed himself to be featured as the author of a fundraising letter for Hillary. "To be honest with you, my contract at CNN says I'm not supposed to raise money [for Presidential candidates]," Carville conceded. He said he'd approved a stack of letters bearing his signature without checking them closely enough. "I approved it by mistake. It wasn't Hillary's fault, it wasn't my office's fault. I signed off on a whole stack. When CNN found out about it, they called me, and I said, Call the Hillary people, tell them to take it down. Which they did." No future fundraising for Presidential candidates while a CNN analyst, he promised.

When I asked him if it was possible that he could be pushing her agenda when stating opinions that the audience would accept as neutral, he seemed to acknowledge that this was at least conceivable. "I guess I could have said, `I'm not just saying this as a Hillary person, but if you're running for the Democratic nomination, you've gotta bone up on health care,'" he said. But he added: "I'm not defined by my support of Hillary Clinton. I like her, but if she drops 5 points in the polls," he'll point it out. "This is hardly firing a U.S. Attorney for political reasons," he said.

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