DNC CONVENTION | Wasserman Schultz heckled at delegates meeting


PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Outgoing Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is being heckled at a breakfast of Florida delegates, with opponents shouting, “Shame!”

The Florida congresswoman announced Sunday that she would resign as the party’s chair at the end of this week’s Democratic National Convention.

Wasserman Schultz is telling the crowd during a raucous scene that “we have to make sure that we move together in a unified way.” But supporters of Bernie Sanders shouted at her during her brief remarks to the breakfast.

Her ouster came after a firestorm over hacked emails that suggested the DNC favored Hillary Clinton in the presidential primaries against Bernie Sanders.

Meanwhile, Clinton’s campaign chairman says Donald Trump and Russian leader Valdimir Putin have “a kind of bromance going on.”

John Podesta said he believes news reports that hacks of the Democratic National Committee’s emails were orchestrated by Russian military intelligence agencies.

Podesta said on MSNBC Monday that there’s, “a kind of bromance going on between Putin and Trump which is distinct from this leak.”

The Republican presidential nominee has done business in Russia. Trump has spoken favorably of Putin as someone he could negotiate with, producing better relations between the U.S. and its former Cold War adversary.

Podesta says, “maybe it’s simply just a mutual admiration society.”