Democrat challenging Biden slams media: They also thought Clinton was a 'shoo-in'

Marianne Williamson attacked the news media as well as the Democratic National Committee for "rigging" the election system and dismissing her presidential chances.

The Democratic presidential candidate sat down for an interview on ABC’s "This Week" Sunday to discuss her 2024 campaign as an opposing option to President Biden. During the interview, Williamson took aim at what she considered "the system" of establishment Democrats and members of the media attacking her campaign.

"You have been called by, I think, the Associated Press, the longest of long shots," ABC correspondent Jonathan Karl asked.

"​I would bet that ​the Associated Press​ also said that Hillary Clinton was a shoo-in​," Williamson responded.

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Karl insisted, "I don't know if they would've used that language, actually."

"Maybe not, but the system, you know exactly what I’m saying. So the system that is now saying that I'm unserious, I'm not credible, or I'm a long shot is the very system that protects and maintains this idea that only those whose careers have been entrenched within the system that drove us into a ditch should possibly be considered qualified to lead us out of that ditch," Williamson said.

Williamson officially launched her presidential campaign on Saturday after revealing plans to begin campaigning on Feb. 23. While Williamson is being seen as a Democratic opponent to President Biden, Biden has yet to officially announce whether he will seek a second term.

Later on in the interview, Williamson also attacked the Democratic Party for undermining her campaign.

"The DNC should not be rigging this system. They don’t even pretend anymore. They’re not even covert about their — their swaying the primary season. They’re very overt about it," Williamson said.

Karl asked, "So that’s what’s going on, is they’re rigging the system for Biden?"

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"They even admit that," Williamson responded, "They know that the president did not do well in New Hampshire. They know that New Hampshirites are very open to independent and more progressive voices. And they know that he did very well in South Carolina. They're not even-- you know this, I know this, they know this. And they're not even pretending otherwise."

When asked whether she would endorse Biden as the Democratic nominee, she commented, "I will do whatever I feel I can do as an American to make sure that the neofascist threat that is represented by some aspects of the Republican Party does not win in 2024."

However, she also noted that she expects to debate Biden in a Democratic primary.

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"This is a democracy. This is not about what I think is wrong. Obviously, I believe the American people should be offered an agenda for genuine, fundamental economic reform, and it should be the voters who decide. It should not be the DNC that decides. It should be the voters that decide. That is what a democracy is," Williamson said.

FBI not ‘forthcoming’ with Trump, Biden classified docs after House intel briefing, committee chairs say

The FBI was not forthcoming with the Trump, Biden and Pence classified documents during a House Intelligence Committee briefing last week, and lawmakers still don't know exactly what the documents contained, the committee’s leaders, Reps. Mike Turner and Jim Himes, said Sunday.

Turner, R-Ohio, and Himes, D-Conn., appeared together on NBC’s "Meet the Press," where they said there were still unanswered questions regarding the classified documents discovered at the residences of President Biden, former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence.

"The FBI is not being forthcoming," committee Chairman Turner said. "They are not giving us the information. They’re claiming it’s going to affect the outcome of their investigation, which, of course, it can’t because the people who are the targets of their investigation know what are in those documents."

The lawmakers said the committee still does not know the classification level of each document or who had access to them. Despite these lingering questions, Turner said the committee is starting to "build an understanding."

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"The thing that we know is that it's unbelievable that administration after administration is apparently sloppy and messy in their use of classified documents," the congressman said. "And that's one thing on a bipartisan basis we have to address."

Himes, the committee's ranking member, agreed that both lawmakers were left dissatisfied with the amount of information provided to the committee during the FBI briefing.

"Let's just say that neither one of us are satisfied that we got enough information to execute our primary responsibility of making sure that sources and methods have been protected," Himes said.

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While the lawmakers said they still couldn’t discuss details of the briefing, Himes said they were beginning to get "a flavor" of what the documents contained and that it "is a very serious issue."

"This wasn't stuff that we can say clearly does not matter," he said.

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When asked if the intelligence community no longer trusts Congress, Turner said it's "more of a tension between the FBI and Congress," not the broader intelligence community.

"I think that's going to come to a head over the next couple of years," he said, adding that the FBI is "not special." 

"They don't have greater privileges than the president does," Turner continued. "And [the FBI is] continuing to act as if they have some privilege to operate without congressional oversight."