Dan Pfeiffer

This is what we suspected all along, which is...

Ken Martin hired the wrong person to do the report.

The wrong person did a terrible job.

Instead of starting the report over or saying that Ken Martin just started lying, couldn't stop lying and just got himself into this incredible hole.

And then he doesn't get points for transparency here because the CNN got some parts they were able to get from some sources, parts of the report.

And once the CNN had that, then the DNC made the decision, which was the right decision, to release the rest of it.

Like it's so it's, it could not have been handled more poorly, just every part of it.

So I'm going to go through a couple of things here.

One, this is just a management disaster.

This was supposed to be a huge priority for Ken Martin.

He hired someone to work for free who no one in the Democratic Party would have picked for this role.

There was no actual process set up.

There was clearly no monitoring of the process or oversight or anyone working on or tracking what was happening because he was shocked when he got the report.

Well, why weren't there calls every week?

Why wasn't someone on your staff in charge of doing this?

Why wasn't there a committee of people?

I can think of dozens upon dozens of very, very qualified, very, very smart Democrats who would have volunteered to

to be part of this process, to do it right.

And I know this because there have been a bunch of other autopsies that have come out where they've gotten really, really smart people to do it and completed the work.

And so that's just an absolute management disaster.