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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Hillary Clinton

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton had not prepared a concession speech until the morning after losing the election to Donald Trump, believing right up until the end should would make history as the first woman to be President of the United States. In this week’s Sunday Sitdown, Willie Geist gets together with the former First Lady, U.S. Senator and Secretary of State to talk about her new MasterClass, which includes an emotional reading of her would-be election night victory speech, and her thoughts on the state of the country today.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of The Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

0:06.4

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

0:09.8

Got a special one for you today, an extended conversation with former Democratic presidential

0:14.7

nominee and Secretary of State Hillary Rotom Clinton.

0:18.9

You don't need some big introduction wind up for me to tell you who she is or where she's

0:22.7

been in her life.

0:23.7

I will just let you know that we got together on the occasion of the release of her new

0:28.1

masterclass.

0:29.1

If you don't know what masterclass is, it's an online education platform where people

0:34.5

often well-known people offer their experiences and advice to anyone who wants to log on

0:40.2

and hear them.

0:41.2

Hillary Clinton's series is about resilience bouncing back from setbacks in her own life.

0:47.1

The most recent, of course, her 2016 presidential campaign loss to Donald Trump.

0:53.5

You may have seen going around this week a clip of Secretary Clinton from the masterclass

0:58.0

reading the would-be victory speech.

1:00.6

That is, the speech she intended to give if she won on election night in 2016, but never

1:06.7

delivered instead the next morning delivering a concession speech that she hadn't written.

1:11.5

She became very emotional in this masterclass in the last couple of minutes as she read

1:15.7

the speech, yes, because she lost the election, but also because she's talking about her

1:19.8

late mother Dorothy, who had a very difficult life, who was abandoned by her parents at eight

1:25.3

years old and put on a train to go live with her grandparents on the west coast coming

1:29.8

from Chicago and Hillary in this speech, imagines going up to her mother at eight years old on

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