© Brian Snyder / Reuters John Podesta
The latest release contains more than 2500 emails, bringing the total number to over 50,000. WikiLeaks has said it would publish 50,000 emails before election day.
On Friday, there were two releases of Podesta emails. They revealed further examples of the campaign's disdain for former Clinton rival Bernie Sanders, and shed light on Bill Clinton's paid speeches when Clinton was secretary of state. The emails also revealed the campaign's relationship with Apple and its influential donors.
CNBC journalist calls Obama 'the black guy'
In an email from CNBC's John Harwood to Podesta in June, 2015, refers to Barack Obama as "the black guy."
"But was his campaign really more expansive than that of the black guy who won VA and NC and IN, 50%+ of popular vote (twice) and 365 EVs in 2008?" Harwood writes.
Bill Clinton's speech to donors
A January 2016 email from Bill Clinton aide Tina Flournoy contains an attached Bill Clinton speech from a fundraising event in October 2015 at the home of Patti and Mike Miller.
"I feel like an old horse that once won a bunch of races and somebody comes to the barn, gives me an extra bale of hay, hauls me on the track and slaps me on the rump, just to see if I can get around one more time," Bill Clinton jokes.
Speaking about the primary debates, he says, "These people actually think they can insult their way to the White House, or compete with each other for who can say the most politically correct things."
On the Iran nuclear deal, the former president says, "You don't know yet whether this Iranian thing is going to be good or bad. It depends on whether we enforce it. And you've got to have somebody in there tough enough, with enough connections in these other countries, to enforce the trigger that will re-impose the sanctions if they violate the rules."
On Republican's negative statements about Hillary Clinton, he says, "These guys do a lot of serious psychological studies. And they know that if you badmouth somebody enough in the press, day in and day out, especially if you've got your own microphone with Fox News, even if every single charge turns out to be false, you can hurt them."
Bill Clinton said his wife didn't tell him about Osama bin Laden being killed, despite the fact that, "All living former presidents have lifetime security clearance. I could take CIA papers every day if I wanted to. I don't, because of Hillary's jobs in the Senate and Secretary of State, because I give too many public speeches and I'd hate to accidentally say something that I read in a government document."
'There aren't great answers' to Foundation questions
An April 2015 email chain between staffers discusses the risks involved in Clinton doing a video to address questions about the Clinton Foundation and its donors. The worry is, "there aren't great answers" to some of those questions
"I wanted to follow up on HRC idea of doing the video. Having thought about it and talked to Craig and Maura about it - I don't think it is good idea for her to do. There aren't great answers and in many cases not her place to answer them," Jennifer Palmieri says.
Palmieri outlines ways Clinton should "frame" her response to accusations of 'pay for play' with Foundation donors when she was secretary of state.
"At least this way she will have taken off the table any notion that there was a quid pro quo - even if some donors may have had bad intentions," she says.
"Fine with the proposed way of handling what she says, but hard setting to take only one question," Podesta replies.
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