SUNRISE, Fla. – There is fresh drama among Democrats after the release of former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile's memoir.

Brazile reportedly considered replacing Hillary Clinton with Vice President Joe Biden as the party's nominee because of health concerns about Clinton.

The current DNC chair blasted Brazile, saying the bombshell allegations are hurting the party, but Brazile pushed back against her critics on ABC's "This Week."

"I mean, this is a lesson of 2016," Brazile told George Stephanopoulos. "If I released it next year, they would say, 'Donna, you're impacting our 2018.' If I released it the following -- 'Donna, you're impacting.' George, for those who are telling the me to shut up, they told Hillary that a couple of months ago. You know what I tell them: 'Go to hell.'"

In the memoir, Brazile also blasted former DNC chair and South Florida U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, calling her a bad manager.

Local 10 News reporter Ian Margol tried to speak with the congresswoman about the issue Monday in Sunrise, but she avoided his questions almost entirely.

Wasserman Schultz's press people promised she would make time to speak about Brazile's allegations. But every time she was asked about the allegations she deflected, pushing the conversation away from the book and attempting to shift it back to the president.

"What we're not going to allow ourselves to be is distracted from the real scandal here, which is making sure that we can get to the bottom of Russia's intentional interference in our presidential election and the Donald Trump campaign's potential collusion with the government of Russia," she said.

Margol asked the congresswoman if there were really no specifics she would go into about the allegations and again, she deflected and attempted to shift the focus back on the president.

The congresswoman later boarded a plane to head back to Washington, D.C.



