Episode 45: Right Hand Woman

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2016

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We talk with Huma Abedin, longtime Hillary Clinton strategist, aide, and Vice Chair of her 2016 presidential campaign about having her emails and private life made public, Hillary's record on abortion rights, and what Bill might do as First Dude. A lightning round on her besties and what her podcast with Hillary would be about. Plus, Amina and Ann debrief on Susan Sarandon, the white people bubble, and current reading lists.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.
0:02.0	A podcast for long distance festies everywhere.
0:05.2	I'm Ann Friedman.
0:06.4	And I'm Amina Tussau.
0:08.9	And wow, what a day.
0:10.9	Big day for us today, Ann.
0:12.7	We got to interview a woman that we really admire on Call Your Girlfriend, Huma Abidine.
0:18.9	Who, if you don't know, now you know, is Hillary Clinton's right-hand woman
0:24.0	has worked in politics for a couple of decades,
0:27.7	mostly putting forward policies that we think are pretty awesome.
0:31.7	But it's like a behind-the-scenes kind of woman,
0:33.7	and which is why we're so excited to actually talk to her on the record.
0:37.7	I know, and she does so few interviews.
0:40.7	So this is like a big deal on her for us.
0:43.7	It's true, when we made a list of people who we would want to talk to you on the podcast,
0:46.7	she was definitely in the first 10 names at least.
0:50.7	I want to say in the first two names.
0:52.7	Yeah.
0:53.7	Go ahead and listen to our interview with Huma,
0:56.7	and then Ann and I will debrief and tell you everything that we think about it afterwards.
1:02.7	Such a good debrief, a long debrief.
1:23.7	But you just left somebody new.
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