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By NICK GASS 01/11/16 03:00 PM EST Updated 01/11/16 04:36 PM EST
Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman on Monday said he hopes Bernie Sanders doesn't go after the former secretary of state over her husband's sexual infidelities. The issue has reemerged with Donald Trump's stepped-up attacks on the matter over the course of the past month.
"Well, I hope he's not I hope he's not going there. He said that he was going to run a positive campaign, that he wasn't going to go in for personal attacks, and I take him at his word on that," John Podesta told MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports."
Mitchell had referenced Sanders' remarks from last Friday in which he called the former president's past personal conduct "totally, totally disgraceful and unacceptable" but hastened to add that he was running against Hillary Clinton, not her husband. Sanders, Mitchell remarked, had not exactly dismissed Trump's comments about the former president as he had done with swirling questions about her "damn emails" in the October Democratic debate.
Bill Clinton "remains an asset for us," Podesta said, adding that the former president would continue to campaign on behalf of his wife.
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