article_snippet: The New York Poston Saturday claimed that Valerie Jarrett, a close confidant of both the president and First Lady Michelle Obama, divulged details of the story to the press through outside sources hoping it would not trace back to the White House.
article_snippet: Sources claim that the long rumored tension between Obama and the Clintons hit a high when during the midterm elections many members of the Democrat Party refused to be seen campaigning with Obama.
article_snippet: Jarrett is reported to have commented that the defections were linked to the Clintons, who Jarrett believed had begun 'marginalizing Obama' and were 'trying to wrestle control of the Democrat Party away from Obama.'
article_snippet: Jarrett reportedly went out of Jarrett way to exact revenge, working to get Monica Lewinsky high-profile press opportunities and frequently complaining about the Clintons.
article_snippet: Then, shortly after the midterm elections, Jarrett, the president and the first lady, reportedly sat down with Clinton and told Clinton in no uncertain terms that she, the president and the first lady planned on remaining neutral during the presidential primary should Clinton run for president.
article_snippet: The Clintons vs. the Obamas, also says Jarrett spoke to a friend of the Clintons, who told Jarrett that Bill said; 'My contacts and friends in newspapers and TV tell me that My contacts and friends in newspapers and TV’ve been contacted by the White House and offered all kinds of negative stories about us.'
article_snippet: Jarrett then added; 'the Obamas are behind the e-mail story, and the Obamas’re spreading rumors that I’ve been with women, that Hillary promoted people at the State Department who’d done favors for our foundation, that John Kerry had to clean up diplomatic messes Hillary left behind.'
article_snippet: Bill, upon learning of this, reportedly said to a friend; 'the Obamas are out to get us any way the Obamas can.'
article_snippet: [Bill] has said, according to my sources, that the White House is leaking to the White House friends in the mainstream media stories about the Clintons.
highlights_snippet: The New York Post claims Jarrett was angry that the Clintons had been working to 'marginalize' President Obama .
  
highlights_snippet: Jarrett allegedly blames the Clintons for members of the Democratic party refusing to campaign with President Barack Obama during the midterm elections .
  
highlights_snippet: President Barack Obama allegedly told Hillary Clinton in a meeting with Jarrett and the First Lady that Jarrett would not support Hillary Clinton in the presidential primary .