Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast for long distance festies everywhere. I am Amina too, so and I'm Ann Friedman

On this week's agenda Amina talks to Hillary Rodham Clinton about how her friends helped her deal post-election

How she's using her platform now about her new book what happened?

Plus if you stick around we'll have a little debrief after the interview

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Talk to Hillary Clinton on Friday right before she spoke at Edie Windsor's funeral

Her book is out now. It's called what happened we'll talk more after but for now here's my conversation with HRC

Thanks so much for being here today. Thank you. This is not about the book, but it's about a book

We read that you were really into the Ferranti books while you were taking some time off

So we were wondering who is your Lila probably my

oldest friend

we became best friends and sixth grade her name is Betsy and

She and I have been through all of the

ups and downs of our lives together and she's

smart and loving and supportive and

Never thrown my doll into a great. I mean she's really

Terrific so probably I have great friends. I'm blessed by really good girlfriends

But she's the one that goes the farthest back and is still so much a part of my life

You're right really beautifully about the women in your life in this book about your daughter about your mother and a lot of friends

Is that something that was really front of mine for you when you were writing the book?

Well, it was I mean if for a couple of reasons, you know, I wanted the book to be both personal and political

because I know that for a lot of people this election was traumatic and

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