"FYI – the New York Times will soon report that HRC is doing meetings for Priorities USA. We have NOT confirmed the meeting and will not be confirming these types of meetings," Jesse Ferguson, a senior spokesman for the campaign, wrote to a number of Clinton strategists on May 6, 2015.
Jennifer Palmieri, the communications director of the Clinton campaign, forwarded Ferguson's message to the campaign chair John Podesta adding that the New York Times might have been tipped off about the meeting by the PAC staff and the campaign would not confirm the meetings.
"So afraid that NYT is going with this story on Priorities whether we like or not. They have sources about the meetings. Honestly, it sounds like Priorities staff was yapping. We are not confirming meetings on this trip but commenting on why we are participating with Priorities," Palmieri wrote.
The Federal Election Commission regulating the campaign finances in the United States prohibits super PACs from directly communicating with the candidates or their campaign members.
The new 32nd batch of emails from Podesta's account pushed the total number of the leaked emails to 52,481, which is even more than 50,000 that WikiLeaks promised to publish before the US elections due to take place on November 8.
The whistleblower website published the first batch of emails on October 8.
