Sanders: ‘I disagree with Hillary Clinton on virtually everything’
Funnyman Jimmy Kimmel asked the Democratic presidential contender about that quandary Thursday should her husband, former President Bill Clinton, become the official White House spouse.
Kimmel talked with a panel of four children – two girls and two boys – off stage and posed a question key to Clinton’s campaign: Could a woman serve as president of the United States? “I don’t want you to tell anybody that, but if he could he would”.
On foreign policy, when pressed about the perception of her as an interventionist overseas who is inclined to use force, Clinton demurred: “I think it’s irresponsible to rule out force”.
Among the first questions to Clinton was about her ties to Wall Street, as a former New York senator, in an election in which concerns about corporate malfeasance and Wall Street greed are tantamount.
Though careful never to mention Clinton by name, Sanders drew a sharp contrast with her on everything from campaign finance reform to foreign affairs. Would he be the first gentleman?”Jimmy Kimmel asked on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!””.
After showing a picture of Bill and Hillary Clinton as a young couple, Maddow asked the former first lady if she had the opportunity would she tell that young Hillary Clinton to go first and run for elected office before Bill. “I gotta do world peace and get the economy going and take care of people”.
“And yet this poll, this Quinnipiac University poll, that they released today, said that if you ran against him today he would beat you by 10 percent”, Kimmel noted in near disbelief. She even out-hawked Robert Gates, the Pentagon chief first appointed by George W. Bush who was less than enthusiastic about going to war in Libya.
Clinton also used the topic to discuss issues important to the anti-police-violence Black Lives Matters movement, including the death of Eric Garner, the Staten Island man killed by police in 2014. “Yeah”, she joked with Kimmel.
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Moore declined to comment on reports that current GOP frontrunner Ben Carson admitted he fabricated a story about applying and being accepted to West Point.
“What I was talking about in my remarks recently was the federal system, where the numbers are much smaller”, Clinton added. “I know that from personal experience”.