Joe Scarborough: “And, regretfully, we cannot just say it was a couple of Asian Americans who abused the democratic process, because the…”

“And, regretfully, we cannot just say it was a couple of Asian Americans who abused the democratic process, because the White House is sort of doing the nod and wink, ``Yeah, Charlie Trie and John Huang, we just never knew what was going on here.'' And yet the Los Angeles Times reported earlier this week that in 1991, then chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Ron Brown, actually had memos sent to him and he sent memos around talking about how they needed to start raising money and basically exploiting Asia. Said there were a lot of great opportunities for 1992. We saw him later on move to the Commerce Department from his position at the Democratic National Committee. And of course that is where some of the most shameful episodes of this type of behavior occurred, where we actually had John Huang getting security clearance in the Commerce Department so he could get Commerce Department and CIA top-secret briefings, and then he would jump into a cab, drive to the Chinese Communist Chinese embassy and have meetings with them supposedly to tell them all that was revealed to him during those briefings. As Newsweek said a year ago, this may be more than campaign finance scandal, this may be espionage.”