Hillary Clinton reflects with raw honesty on Trump and 2016
Capehart
The Washington Post
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. This is Jonathan K. Part and welcome to Cape Up. |
| 0:09.0 | Hillary Rodham Clinton comes on the podcast to talk about her book, |
| 0:13.2 | what happened, her recounting of the crazy 2016 presidential race. |
| 0:17.7 | We talk explicitly about why she wanted to be president. |
| 0:21.1 | She deals with the fact that millions of people hate her and of course |
| 0:25.3 | we talk about president Trump. Even what he told people was a fraud so it's in |
| 0:32.4 | keeping with his bankruptcies and his Trump University. He is a |
| 0:37.0 | con artist and that's what Mike Bloomberg called him at our convention and every day |
| 0:41.7 | that goes by seems to prove that. |
| 0:45.0 | If you've read the book you know Clinton doesn't hold back and she won't in this |
| 0:48.9 | interview right now. |
| 0:51.9 | Madam Secretary it is great to have right now. |
| 0:56.0 | Madam Secretary, it is great to have you on the podcast. Thank you so much, Jonathan. I'm delighted to be here. |
| 0:58.0 | So in your book, what happened? |
| 1:01.0 | One of the things that jumped out at me or was sort of powerful for me was just how honest you were |
| 1:08.9 | about a couple of things. |
| 1:10.3 | First, why you wanted to be president. I don't think I've ever seen you state just so |
| 1:17.0 | clearly and forcefully why you want to be president. You write, the most compelling |
| 1:22.1 | argument is the hardest to say out loud. I was |
| 1:25.0 | convinced that both Bill and Baroque were right when they said I would be a better |
| 1:29.1 | president than anyone else out there. I also thought I'd win. And then a little bit earlier than that, you |
| 1:35.3 | right, I did not want to be president because I want power for power sake. I want |
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