Mike Allen Responds to Chelsea Clinton Interview Request Flap

"MY BAD!"

“MY BAD!” begins an entry halfway down the page in this morning’s Politico Playbook. It is the opening to a two-paragraph apology by Playbook author and Politico chief White House correspondent Mike Allen in response to a story Gawker’s J.K. Trotter broke last week.

The incident involves what Allen refers to as “clumsy” wording in a 2013 email to Philippe Reines, then deputy assistant secretary of state under Hillary Clinton. In the email, Allen requests an interview with Chelsea Clinton, to take place during a Politico event, promising that he would ask only predetermined questions.

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