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On 31 October 2016, Democratic National Committee (DNC) interim chair Donna Brazile was fired from her position as a political commentator at CNN over e-mail leaks suggesting she had improperly supplied Hillary Clinton's campaign with advance knowledge of questions to be posed to her during Democratic campaign events hosted by the news network. According to Politico, CNN released a statement asserting the network had accepted Brazile's resignation on 14 October 2016. CNN stated that they were completely uncomfortable with the content of e-mails seemingly showing she had obtained information in advance about questions to be posed at CNN town hall and debate events: A separate Politico piece reported that additional information released via WikiLeaks on 31 October 2016 (in an e-mail with the subject header Re: From time to time I get the questions in advance) appeared to demonstrate two March 2016 instances of Brazile alerting the Clinton campaign to planned questions: One of the cited instances pertained to a 13 March 2016 town hall meeting, and the other a 6 March 2016 primary debate with candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders. Brazile admitted the e-mail leaks reflected poorly on CNN: Donna Brazile's firing from CNN caused some confusion due to a previous fabricated news story asserting Clinton had been supplied questions one week in advance of the first presidential debate between the former Secretary of State and Donald Trump on 26 September 2016. Although Brazile was implicated in supplying the campaign with information ahead of Clinton's appearances, that issue pertained only to March 2016 (during the Democratic primary, not the general election campaign) and involved CNN (not NBC), a campaign against Bernie Sanders (not Donald Trump), and a debate held on 6 March 2016 (not 26 September 2016).
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