So this was supposed to be the victory speech that I would have delivered on election night in New York on November the 8th of 2016. Hello to Kirk Affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I'm the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs Magazine. I am here today with my colleagues, Current Affairs Online Editor, Lily Sanchez. Hello, Lily. Hi, Nathan. Thanks

for having me. And current affairs editor at large, Yasmin Nair. Hello, Yasmin. Hello, everyone. Hi, Lily. Hi,

Nathan. And we have watched Hillary Clinton's master class so that you don't have to.

You may have seen there was a public clip of Hillary Clinton's Masterclass recently

that got some press because she reads out the speech that she would have given had she

won the election in 2016, which she did not.

That's one of the lessons, but we were curious what else is in Hillary Clinton's master class.

And so we have signed up for a master class membership, which is quite expensive.

And we have taken the class over the course of the two hours preceding this call.

So we're going to tell you what's in Hillary Clinton's masterclass, what we learned from it,

and what you can learn about Hillary Clinton and the State of America from this fascinating document. So I guess

I'll start by asking you, what you learn from Hillary Clinton's master class? I think one of the

things that stood out to me, I mean, among many things, just the first thing that strikes me is that

just this rhetoric of hard work and choice and people's God-given abilities that just really

stuck out to me. And so Hillary's message is like, you know, you have to work hard. And if you work

harder, then you'll do even better than when you

were just working hard. And it's this idea that people can just kind of move up in life. And it's just the

same kind of like rhetoric that we always hear. And we know it's not really true, right? We know that a lot of

people work hard every single day and barely get by. So it's that kind of

rhetoric. It's the idea of people's God-given abilities I always find interesting because, first of all,

I mean, what if you don't believe in God or in that God? And why is there like a ceiling on people's

ability levels, right? Like, well, you know, we can't let people get something that they might not have been deemed to get by God. You know, there's like that kind of idea. And just the sense that it's people's

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