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Bonus Coverage: Morning Joe Mocks Whopper-Telling Wolfson

Hillary campaign honcho Howard Wolfson had the unenviable task of appearing on Morning Joe today, and took his best shot at making a silk purse out of the sow’s ear of last night’s disastrous results. But Wolfson’s difficult situation didn’t stop the Morning Joe crew from openly mocking him when he feigned ignorance about a factoid unfavorable to his candidate.

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HOWARD WOLFSON: There’s no question, we’re going to have to do well in the upcoming states, we’re going to have to —

JOE SCARBOROUGH: But Howard, there aren’t enough points left to put up on the board, are there?

WOLFSON: Well, we’re going to have to make sure that Florida and Michigan are counted. As Senator Clinton said last night, we’re not going to decide this nomination based on 48 states. There are not 48 states in the union anymore; there are 50.

SCARBOROUGH [putting in the knife with a near-rhetorical question]: do you guys have a majority of the rules committee that will make that decision?

WOLFSON: I have no idea.

SCARBOROUGH [bursting into raucous laughter]: Howard, I love you. I love you, Howard, but you know that . . .

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Ho-ward. No. We have a [BS?] meter.

WOLFSON: No, no, no, no. That’s Harold Ickes’s department. Harold knows all.

BRZEZINSKI: Uh-huh, yeah.

SCARBOROUGH: Oh, OK. Fair enough.

If Hillary Clinton’s campaign is willing to dissemble this brazenly on such a matter, as president what wouldn’t she or her staffers be prepared to trample the truth about?