DNC Chairperson, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, attempted to deliver a speech today in Philadelphia at a Florida delegation breakfast.  Mayhem ensued…

Wasserman Schultz was not able to deliver her speech and was booed off stage.  She had to be escorted out of the hotel venue by security as the audience shouted “shame, shame, shame”.   Andrea Mitchell was in the venue and delivered this report to a gobsmacked MSNBC:

Within hours of leaving the breakfast, and accepting there’s no way she could speak at the convention, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz announced her complete withdrawal.

Debbie Wasserman SchultzPHILADELPHIA – Outgoing Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz won’t open her party’s convention, following a chaotic scene earlier in the day at a meeting of Florida Democratic delegates where critics and Bernie Sanders supporters loudly jeered at the congresswoman.

“I have decided that in the interest of making sure that we can start the Democratic convention on a high note that I am not going to gavel in the convention,” Wasserman Schultz told the Sun Sentinel newspaper in an interview.

Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who is also the Democratic National Committee’s Secretary will handle the gaveling, according to a Democrat close to Rawlings-Blake.

The change in plans continues the fallout for Wasserman Schultz, the Florida congresswoman who announced Sunday that she will resign from her post.

She came under intense fire when thousands of leaked DNC emails appeared to show the committee favored Democratic presumptive nominee, Hillary Clinton, over Sanders during the primary. (READ MORE)

Here’s more video of the breakfast:

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