CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley was at it again on Thursday’s CNN Tonight spinning for liberals as he aired his discomfort with discussing the WikiLeaks e-mail dumps from John Podesta’s account since it was “an illegal one” but brushed them aside as not “really that damning” because “a lot of voters have been hearing about Hillary Clinton's e-mails and servers and WikiLeaks for a year now, and they're tired of it.”

As if that grade-A use of Clinton talking points wasn’t enough, Brinkley returned in a later segment and twice offered his hope that the “country rallies behind her and they'll be a little bit of bipartisan good will for a while” and see Democrats and “responsible Republicans” in Congress make progress on “immigration reform, perhaps some infrastructure projects.”

Rewinding back to the first set of comments, Brinkley bloviated despite former NBC News correspondent and current Yahoo! News correspondent Michael Isikioff tearing into the hypocrisy of the Clintons attacking money in politics while building their massive fortune by engaging in that very practice.

“The gap between the rhetoric that Hillary Clinton and Democrats have used about the problem of money in politics of undue influence for special interests and wealthy donors and then the reality of special interests and wealthy donors pouring this kind of money into the family foundation into the pocket of the Clinton family...that's where this is at issue and is a problem,” Isikoff explained.

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Isikoff also included a specific example of how, even though it’s not illegal, deep the collusion went between financiers and the Clinton family while Hillary Clinton was in the Obama administration:

I should point out that much of this took place while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state in which many of these companies, for instance, UBS had interests before the government. UBS was being investigated by the Justice Department. It required over — helping its customers evade taxes in the United States. It required an agreement between the State Department and the Swiss government in order for the Justice Department to get some of those records.

Despite that explanation from an actual journalist, Brinkley began spouting off about the “illegal” WikiLeaks document dump and committing such an act “all right before the election” even though they’ve been released “with no smoking gun” and only offers a “taint” on the Clintons.

“[T]hings are running fast. We've got 11 days. The news cycle's moving and this little — these internal e-mails just aren't having the wallop that I think the Trump campaign would have hoped. It doesn't help that a lot of voters have been hearing about Hillary Clinton's e-mails and servers and WikiLeaks for a year now, and they're tired of it, so I don't think any one of these is really that damning,” he added.

In a later segment, Brinkley sneered with glee that “[t]he hate-Clinton crowd will keep going after the Clintons but the Republican Party shouldn't act so full of hubris” because “Donald Trump is a — going to be a giant factor if he loses” in the fractured party.

He then looked ahead to a Hillary Clinton administration and ruled that GOP infighting “might be a gift to Hillary Clinton” because she could work “with moderate Republicans have rejected Trump, people like McCain and Lindsey Graham and the like.”

On that theme, he later confessed “I'm going to be a little bit hopeful that if Hillary Clinton wins, which polls look like she's going to, that country rallies behind her and they'll be a little bit of bipartisan good will for a while” on issues like immigration and infrastructure.

“[I]f Trump pulls less than Mitt Romney and John McCain did, it's not a Trump revolution, it's a Trump peter out bringing the Republican Party in a backwards direction. I think you will see responsible Republicans wanting to try to do some business for at least a little while with Hillary Clinton,” he concluded.

The relevant portions of the transcript from October 27's CNN Tonight with Don Lemon can be found below.