Hillary Clintonisnotpleading the fifth.
While appearing onWatch What Happens Livewith daughterChelseaon Thursday, the former secretary of state, 74, participated inAndy Cohen’s segment titledPlead the Fifth— where guests can choose to not answer one of the three questions asked — and she didn’t hold back.
“I have not watched any of them,” theformer first ladysaid, adding with a laugh, “I’ve lived it. There’s no reason to watch it.”
Hillary was also asked which senator is the most blowhard, to which she initially answered that there’s “too many to count.” After some thought, she said Texas Sen.Ted Cruz"is the eternal blowhard."
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Hillary and Chelsea Clinton.
Cohen also asked the politician about the “biggest gaffe” she’s ever made in her career. And although she couldn’t name a specific one, Hillary said, “When you’ve been in the public eye for as long as I have, you misspeak, you’re tired, you say something that turns out to be a little bit off, so I just can’t think ofonethat pops up.”
Luckily, Chelsea, 42, quickly jumped in. “There was the time when you were campaigning in Buffalo in 2000 for the Senate and she was asked to dance the Polish polka on stage,” she recalled, saying that her mother, anticipating “a gaffe,” quickly swerved on the offer.
“To avoid making a gaffe, she turned to me and said, ‘My daughter would love to do that,’ " Chelsea said as the trio and audience all laughed.
Also in the interview, Hillary received questions from fans, and one asked if saying “I told you so” ever crosses her mind given former PresidentDonald Trump’s divisive administration. “It does cross my mind, honestly,” she admitted, “but it doesn’t provide any kind of solace to me.”
“I’mso distressed [about] everything that happenedduring the time that he was [in office] and then his refusal to accept the election and inciting violence, it’s heartbreaking,” Hillary added. “I don’t care what political party you are, I hope people will just say, ‘No, enough. We’re not gonna let that kind of divisiveness and disruption exist in our country any longer.’ "
“It’s so important to stop it,” she said.
Hillary Clinton.
“No, no,” Hillaryanswered without hesitation. “But I’m going to do everything I can to make sure that we have a president that respects our democracy and the rule of law and upholds our institutions.”
That means, in her mind, that Trump, 76, should be “soundly defeated,” Hillary added when O’Donnell, 48, asked about the former president, who has indicated he’slikely to launch a third bid for the White Housein 2024.
“It should start in the Republican party,” Hillary continued. “Grow a backbone. Stand up to this guy.”
She added, “And heaven forbid if he gets the nomination,he needs to be defeated soundlyand sent back to Mar-a-Lago.”
Hillary Clinton; Donald Trump.Andreas Rentz/Getty; Brandon Bell/Getty
Hillary then praised the witnesses, including former Trump administration officials likeSarah MatthewsandCassidy Hutchinson, who testified publicly before the House committee investigating theJan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitoland the attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election thatJoe Bidenwon.
“That goes to a point about being a gutsy woman,” she told O’Donnell. “The couple of young women who have come forward out of the Trump White House, they have been vilified. They had to have known that they were going to be criticized. But I give them enormous credit for speaking the truth and doing the right thing.”
She also commended “gutsy” CongresswomanLiz Cheney, the Republican vice chair of the Jan. 6 committee, for her “great, historic service to the United States” and forpaying a steep pricefor her efforts to hold Trump accountable for his role in unsuccessful plans to subvert a free and fair election four years after he defeated Hillary in the 2016 presidential race.
source: people.com
