“Morgan Stanley is coming down,” wrote Robby Mook, Hillary’s current campaign manager, in an email to top Clinton aides, adding that John Podesta, Hillary’s current campaign chairman, had made the call.
Huma Abedin explained that Hillary would not be happy about it. “HRC very strongly did not want him to cancel that particular speech,” Abedin wrote. “I will have to tell her that [Bill] chose to cancel it, not that we asked.
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Mook wrote back with a long explanation for why allowing Bill to go forward with the speech would be a “very consequential unforced error and could plague us for months,” mostly because voters in Iowa, the first primary state, have very low opinions about Wall Street.
Mook, however, did recognize “the sacrifice and disappointment that canceling will create,” presumably because of the Clintons’ insatiable quest for money. Both Bill and Hillary were pulling in about $200,000 to $300,000 per speech at the time.
Huma apparently was able to persuade Hillary that canceling was the right think to do. Hillary “just needed a cool down period” to process her rage.
