Watch the full, extended interview between Trevor Noah and Hillary Clinton during which the 2016 Democratic nominee for president talks about how Trump reacted to the New York terror attack, Russian interference in the election and the FBI's investigation into Trump's ties to Russia, empowering women and how she answers those who think she should just go away. Click the picture below to watch the full interview.
On the New York terror attack: "[Trump] just doesn't have any empathy. And you can disagree with somebody over all kinds of partisan issues, but you want to have a president who can try to put himself into the shoes, the feelings of somebody else, and he has not been able to do that."
On the 2016 election: "I felt like I was in the midst of the first reality TV campaign. He was the first reality TV candidate and I was the candidate of reality."
On Russian interference: "This is cyber warfare. It's not tanks and planes and ships, but it is a form of war. We've never had an adversary who attacked us with so few consequences and I think that's in large measure because the president is so ambivalent. He has to know. We'll find what he knew and how involved he was. But he had to know that people were making outreach to Russians to the highest levels of the Kremlin in order to help him, to hurt me, but more importantly to sow this divisiveness."
On the FBI investigation of Trump: "And what also didn't come out, which I think is an even bigger problem, as I write in the book, is that the American people didn't even know that the FBI was investigating the Trump campaign because of connections with Russia starting in the summer of 2016. So I know that voters should have had the information. That's something that may have influenced some people. And it's part of what happens in a campaign where you get information that may or may not be useful and you try to make sure that anything you put out in the public arena is accurate. So this thing didn't come out until after the election, and it's still being evaluated, but the fact of the FBI investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia should have come out."
On the healthcare debate during the campaign: "It would be a lot easier to go out and say 'Oh, forget what was done let's do something brand new and start from scratch.' Or on the other side's 'It was terrible, let's get rid of it, I'm going to do something wonderful but I won't tell you what it is.' "
On whether anyone ever raised any concerns to about Harvey Weinstein: "No. No. It was really upsetting and shocking. I felt, you know, that so many people who had been in Democratic politics for many years had known him in one capacity but not in the other. And, so, I do think that it's very important that more women step forward and describe their experiences. But, I am also in a picture with Donald Trump and he's on tape confessing to sexual assault with the Hollywood Access tape. So this is a pervasive problem that has to be dealt with and more women have to be given the support they need that they can come forward. Because I've talked to some of these young women over the years who have been facing these kinds of difficult choices. And, you know, maybe now with these revelations coming out, more people will feel emboldened and, most importantly, the spotlight will shine on people who will think twice about doing some of these terrible things that are reported to have done."
On treatment of women: "We need a concerted effort in our society to stand up for young women who are just starting out, trying to decide what they want to do. And we need laws, some of which we have, others of which we could use, to make sure that they're not discriminated against and that they do get equal pay for equal work and all the other ideas I believe in."
On answering the "Why won't she go away?" question: "I can get that voice out there, and I'm going to keep talking, I'm not going anywhere. I walked in the woods, that was enough, I'm done with that."
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