Hillary Clinton on the “Clear and Present Danger” of Collusion with Russia

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🗓️ 13 September 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Hillary Clinton harbors no doubts, she tells David Remnick in a long interview, that political allies of Donald Trump astutely “guided” the release of hacked e-mails by WikiLeaks and the planting of fake news in order to sabotage her. In a new book, “What Happened,” Clinton is by turns angry, accusatory, and apologetic about the 2016 election and its outcome. She describes the infiltration by Russia as a “clear and present danger” to the electoral process that Republicans should take as seriously as Democrats; Putin could, she points out, just as easily turn on Trump. She also tells Remnick that the media failed voters by focussing coverage on scandals rather than policies; she analyzes how sexism affected voters as they judged a woman who sought the highest office in the land; she wishes that President Obama had acted more forcefully on what was known about Russian involvement; and she lays out a plan for diplomatic efforts to address the North Korea nuclear crisis. A resolution is possible, she believes, but she worries that “nobody’s home at the State Department. There isn’t anybody to really guide a strategic approach to North Korea, as opposed to tweeting and speechifying.”

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0:00.0	These are just anecdotes, but it's building up into something more coherent.
0:09.8	I think it'd be interesting to really try to unravel what his ties.
0:13.7	There's this sort of country city divide for their inconvenient, and it's not clear where it goes next.
0:19.8	From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production
0:24.6	of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:29.6	Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David.
0:31.6	Hi, David. How are you?
0:33.6	I'm to see you.
0:34.6	Nice to see you.
0:35.6	Congrats on the book.
0:36.6	Oh, thank you.
0:38.3	Few books this year have been as anticipated as what happened.
0:42.3	It's Hillary Clinton's account of the presidential election that she lost to Donald Trump,
0:47.3	why she lost it, and what's happening in the country in the year since.
0:51.3	It's angry, it's accusatory, and apologetic at the same time. And I met with
0:56.7	Clinton at her office in Manhattan. You gave an incredibly moving concession speech, a speech
1:04.6	the morning after the election. And you said, we must accept this result and then look to the future.
1:09.7	Donald Trump is going to be our president.
1:12.2	We owe him an open mind and a chance to lead.
1:15.2	Our constitutional democracy enshrines the peaceful transfer of power.
1:19.2	We don't just respect that. We cherish it.
1:23.1	Masha Gesson, who wrote in favor of you throughout the campaign in many ways, said, you should
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