Emails: Podesta advised Clinton on Obama climate 'baggage'

Hillary Clinton’s current campaign chairman was concerned about attracting unwanted political “baggage” by standing too close to President Obama’s record on climate change months before the Democratic candidate’s campaign was launched, according to illegally obtained emails released by the group WikiLeaks.

John Podesta, whose email account was hacked, raised the issue in vetting a speech Clinton was expected to deliver at a clean energy conference put on by Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada in September 2014.