Hillary Clinton sat down with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Thursday night as part of a book tour for her recently-published memoir What Happened.
Viewers tuned in as Clinton discussed the election, her thoughts on the presidency of her former campaign opponent Donald Trump, and the current political climate around issues like North Korea, DACA and the Russia investigation.
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What Happened is a memoir in which Clinton gives her account of the 2016 presidential election. An interview with Clinton by New Yorker editor David Remnick called it “much closer to the bone than anything Clinton has ever published.”
She has written five other books.
Clinton has done several interviews leading up to the publishing of her latest book, including with TIME, Vox, MSNBC and others.
Many have seen these conversations as a chance for Clinton to speak, unfiltered, about her experience in last year’s election. In an interview with CNN Wednesday, Clinton suggested that it was time to do away with the electoral college, which is the reason she lost the presidency while winning the popular vote.
Maddow opened the interview by asking Clinton about how the Trump administration is dealing with the North Korea threat.
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“We know we can’t get anything done in this very threatening situation if we don’t work with our allies,” Clinton said.
She explained how she’s concerned about the Trump administration alienating American allies like South Korea, while failing to bring in the necessary experts to inform them on the issue.
“We have decimated our state department,” she explained.
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Clinton went on to say that she doesn’t believe that people who have decades of experience with North Korean diplomacy are being brought to the table, “even though they should be.”
“I kept waiting for the ‘aha’ moment,” she said, where Trump’s officials would call in knowledgeable experts who could inform them on the issues, though she said the moment has yet to come.
During the interview, as well as in several others, Clinton addressed the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 American presidential election and connections between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I do believe Trump admires authoritarians,” Clinton said. “He doesn’t just like Putin, he wants to be like Putin. He wants to have that kind of power that is largely unaccountable.”
The conversation with Maddow quickly turned to Trump’s handling of the Russia investigation after he took office.
Maddow asked Clinton whether her speaking out against Putin rigging the Russian election in his favour back in 2011 may have set him on a path against her.
She retorted that, rather, Putin wanted to “destabilize democracy.” She added that “a president that wanted to be a president of all of the country would be investigating what Russia did to us.”
The interview aired live on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show on Thursday evening.
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