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🗓️ 19 December 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Huma Abedin, adviser and chief of staff to Hillary Clinton, reflects on her early days in the Clinton administration, sexist obstacles facing women in leadership and her memoir "Both/And."
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
0:02.6 | BAM! |
0:03.6 | Huma, welcome to the show. |
0:06.8 | Thank you for having me, Trevor. |
0:08.3 | You have lived a life that is, I mean, just in proximity to action all the time. |
0:14.4 | I mean, just listening to this, you know when I was going through it again, it's, you |
0:18.1 | were by somebody's side who was running for president twice. |
0:21.7 | You know, you were somebody's side, well, she was serving as Secretary of State, as Senator |
0:26.3 | of New York. |
0:27.6 | And you had to wake that same person up from bed when she was first lady. |
0:32.6 | The person I'm talking about, of course, is Hillary Clinton. |
0:35.2 | Let's talk about that first. |
0:37.3 | How do you wake up a sleeping first lady? |
0:39.4 | So, first of all, I'm thrilled to be with you today. |
0:43.0 | And I, yes, when I walked into the White House, I was a 21-year-old intern. |
0:47.1 | I didn't exactly know what I was doing. |
0:49.0 | And there was very much, at least in the Clinton administration, the sink or swim attitudes. |
0:52.9 | They kind of threw you into it. |
0:54.6 | And so this was the midst of her Senate campaign. |
0:57.8 | She was first lady running for the Senate. |
0:59.0 | And one morning, the White House operator says, well, she's not responding. |
1:02.3 | Now as somebody who had followed all the rules, one of the first rules you learned in the |
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