Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman described Hispanic Democrats withholding their endorsement as 'needy Latinos' and advised the candidate to butter them up with phone calls.

In a hacked email from August 2015 with the subject line, 'Needy Latinos and 1 easy call,' John Podesta told Hillary's right-hand aide, Huma Abedin, that the the candidate needed to reach out to former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and former Energy Secretary Federico Pena and personally ask for their backing.

Both men served in Bill Clinton's cabinet. Richardson was also an Energy secretary to the two-term president. Podesta said Richardson is a 'd***' but Hillary should phone him anyway.

In a hacked email from August 2015 with the subject line, 'Needy Latinos and 1 easy call,' John Podesta told Hillary's right-hand aide, Huma Abedin, that the the candidate needed to reach out to former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (pictured)

Richardson had emailed Podesta, a chief of staff to Bill in the White House, two days before and indicated that he wouldn't endorse Hillary in the Democratic primary unless she made the call.

'You should support her. Don't make it so complicated,' Podesta told him, according to ABC News.

Nonetheless, Podesta recommended in the Abedin email that Hillary speak to him.

'I had heard that you were upset that I encouraged a call between WJC and Richardson to bury the hatchet,' Podesta said. 'Richardson is still on TV a lot, especially on Univision and Telemundo and not withstanding the fact that he can be a d***, it was worth getting him in a good place.'

Podesta told Clinton he'd been 'pressing' Richardson to commit to her campaign 'but I think it will take a call from you to get a formal endorsement.

'But if it's too galling, don't bother.'

Clinton should also consider calling Pena, he said.

Podesta told Clinton he'd been 'pressing' Richardson to commit to her campaign 'but I think it will take a call from you to get a formal endorsement. 'But if it's too galling, don't bother'

'Ask him how he's been doing...ask about his views on the race and what she should be doing in Colorado...ask that he consider publicly supporting you.'

Pena had relayed to former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar that he was peeved with the Clintons over the way they treated him after Bill's presidency.'

'He confided to Ken that his Cabinet stints ripped up his family, he gave everything to the cause and no time to his family, he went through a messy divorce in the late 90's and was left really down and felt like no one reached out to him then so he felt pretty cut off from Clinton World,' Podesta stated.

The ex-cabinet secretary endorsed Barack Obama in 2007 because he asked, Podesta said.

'He kind of wants to be with you, but this stuff is still grinding on him. Ken suggests a call to him.'

Of Pena's complaints Podesta said he's 'not sure any of this is factually accurate, but this is how he is feeling.'

'On balance, I recommend making this call as much because it's important to Ken who has been great.'

'I had heard that you were upset that I encouraged a call between WJC and Richardson to bury the hatchet,' Podesta wrote. 'Richardson is still on TV a lot, especially on Univision and Telemundo and not withstanding the fact that he can be a d***, it was worth getting him in a good place.'

Podesta has acknowledged that emails were in fact stolen from his personal account and that he is working with the FBI to determine the culprit.

'It is now clear that the illegal hack of my personal email account was -- just like the other recent, election-related hacks -- the work of the Russian government,' he said in a Wednesday statement.

He claimed there were a 'growing number of links between Trump's associates, Wikileaks and the Russian government' and said it 'raises troubling questions about the possibility that Trump's allies had advance knowledge of the release of these illegally obtained emails.