Hillary Clinton Supports Her Husband’s ‘Defensive Action’ as President

She argued that many surveys indicate that most veterans are happy with the health care they’ve received at the VA.

“But that”, Maddow observed, “is where the Republican Party is”.

While Clinton said a few of President Bill Clinton’s policies that increased incarceration were in response to “horrific crime rates”, she told Maddow they “went too far”.

Clinton described the Defense of Marriage Act, which banned the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages, as a way of stopping a larger effort she said was underway to pass an amendment to the Constitution that would have banned same-sex marriage.

“It tells you that they were willing to put domestic political consideration over telling the American people and the families of those victims the truth”, he said.

Although Clinton was celebrating what she and many Clinton loyalists called a victory, one analyst found troubling signs in her day of testimony.

“I said I would do it and I did it because if there is anything new – which is unlikely after the eight prior investigations that have been held -we should know about it because the point is: What are we going to do to both honor the people that we lost and try to make sure this doesn’t happen again?” “And it is not an easy position to be in, and you have to try to think, OK, what is the least bad choice?” “When talking about State Department employees, she stressed that they were not her staff. She surrounded herself with partisan loyalists to an extent that should trouble voters”. “It’s what he meant to do”, Clinton said.

Was that a note of condescension?

I think ultimately, that ends up not being the case in the long run.

Finally, Maddow asked what Clinton’s late mother, Dorothy Rodham, would have made of Thursday’s grueling hearing, during which the former secretary kept her calm while the Republicans sneered and foamed at her.

“I think she would have been appalled at the whole spectacle”, Clinton answered, “but she would have been concerned about me getting home, because she was with us in the last years of her life, and she’d be waiting up, and she’d want to know how I was, and whether I’d had anything to eat during the day. And that’s the way she raised me”.