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I'll make you look,

I want to make you look beautiful--

Look in the,

where do you want to look, okay?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Just all of our people,

our phones are all on stun?

Yes.

For a woman who grew up not seeming to care

what she looked like is this.

- It's a burden, believe me.

- What?

- 60 seconds.

- 60 seconds?

Practically every day,

started with me doing hair and makeup.

There were 600 days give or take in the campaign.

And it was an hour to an hour to a half,

so being really conservative,

say an hour to do hair and makeup.

I calculated it and

I spent 25 days doing hair and makeup.

And I knew that the men I was running against,

didn't have to do any of that.

Get up, take a shower, shake their head,

they were ready to go.

I wanna slop it under your eye.

- This is what I have to put up with.

- That's the real prep.

All right.

- Are you set Huma?

- Yeah, I'm done. - Yeah, yeah.

- I'm good, okay. -Thank you.

- Good, good.

- I think it looks good.

- Well, you can start buttoned and then you know,

when you get wound up, you can unbutton.

Honestly, Bernie just drove me crazy.

He was in Congress for years, years,

he had one Senator support him.

Nobody likes him,

Nobody wants to work with him.

He got nothing done.

He was a career politician.

He did not work until he was like 41,

and then he got elected to something.

It was all just bologna and I feel so bad that people

got sucked into it.

- Our topic is Wall Street for those just joining us.

- I've laid out a very aggressive plan

to reign in Wall Street.

Not good enough.

Why over her political career,

has Wall Street been a major, the major

campaign contributor to Hillary Clinton?

Now maybe their dumb and they don't know what they're

gonna get, but I don't think so.

John, John, wait a minute, wait a minute.

Look, he has basically, he has basically used his answer to

impune my integrity.

Let's be frank here.

SEN. SANDERS No, I did not. -Wait a minute Senator.

- Bernie was getting increasingly negative

towards Hillary.

What he did was go out there everyday and basically say,

Hillary Clinton is corrupt.

Over and over and over again.

The latest poll among likely caucus goers

in Iowa showing Sanders closing in on Hillary Clinton

in the Hawkeye state.

And that has her campaign admitting they are nervous.

- Thank you.

Iowa has never been particularly receptive to me.

You know, in 2008, it was not at all.

And by 2016, it was tough.

It was tough in part because it was so close

and we were fighting for every vote and every delegate.

- I was a huge Bernie Sanders supporter,

but now I think you have me convinced to caucus for you.

- Thank you.

That means the world to me, thank you.

Our brand new poll shows Hillary Clinton

and Bernie Sanders locked in a virtual tie in Iowa.

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders,

they are clearly in a close race right now.

First of all, what we see on the republican.

Fuck!

We all lost.

I lost!

She's up again.

Once inevitable Hillary Clinton

neck and neck right now with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

Is that race still too close to project?

We have team coverage on that.

- This is a nail biter.

So we gotta think what we're gonna do.

Think about how we're gonna play it,

what we're gonna say,

when we're gonna do whatever it is we're gonna do.

Well, we started telling people

in the background.

- What?

- Yeah, well, but we have to decide if we're gonna

go out and say that, even though everything's not in.

And you know, what the consequences of that are,

if we go out, we say it, and then you know,

we end up behind.

Right.

- I just don't want him to get out and claim

the revolution is working, people felt the burn,

we're on the way, we're gonna win this,

that's what if I were he.

He's gonna do that.

- That's what I,

he should do it.

This is gonna be like a half a point either way,

so it's not just gonna change fundamentally.

Okay, let's figure it out.

So, I'm just gonna drop one second,

'cause it's gotten ...

Closer.

He's basically her but what's top of mind,

what has her pacing up and down the hall

is she doesn't want him out first.

They said he was gonna call, which obviously,

we're holding the phone.

I mean, they said he was gonna call,

that hasn't happened.

She's just gonna freak out.

This thing, it's just so close.

I think we just, if he's ...

We believe he's gonna go out before 11 P. M.

And say he declared victory,

whether he wins or not.

Right, he's just done so well that he's gonna--

So she should go speak right now.

We, she should go right now.

- Let's go!

All right, let's go.

- What a night, an unbelievable night!

Breathing a big sigh of relief.

Thank you Iowa.

Okay.

But it's that much.

It's a win.

Hey guys,

we're gonna take off to New Hampshire,

we gotta go.

Yeah, I got it.

Go Hillary, yeah!

Okay, here we go. Thank you!

After beating Bernie Sanders in Iowa,

by a razor thin margin,

Hillary Clinton has come to the granite state

as the underdog trailing Sanders by 18 points.

- The mood was really bleak in those days in New Hampshire

right after Iowa.

Many critics, and even some democrats

who are on the fence about voting for you say

they don't trust you.

- They do not believe that you are honest.

They have issues with your trustworthiness.

- We don't trust her.

Okay.

- I think it really drove the Clinton campaign crazy

that she was the first woman to win the Iowa caucus

and it was like it didn't even happen.

I mean, everybody just talked about how well Bernie did.

-.

- And there she is in Bernie's backyard in New Hampshire

knowing that she's gonna lose by a lot.

- You know, when you know you're gonna lose,

it's really hard to campaign.

This is my favorite part of any kind of campaign.

- No, I don't want to!

I don't want to.

It's a lot happening.

- I know, it's pretty okay.

I feel that way a lot.

Thank you so much.

- You know, I just gutted it out.

You've got about 20 seconds here guys.

- She very much wanted to go on an offense against Bernie.

If you're out there on the campaign trail everyday,

and you're opponent is saying you're corrupt,

you're in the pocket of corporate interests.

She wanted to stand up and defend herself.

There is this attack that he is putting forth.

Which really comes down to anybody who ever took donations

or speaking fees from any interest group,

has to be bought.

And I just absolutely reject that Senator.

And enough is enough.

It's time to end the very artful smear that you and your

campaign have been carrying

out in recent weeks and let's talk about the issues.

Let's talk about the issues that divide us.

Let's talk about issues.

Let's talk about issues.

- Senator Sanders, Secretary Clinton,

obviously, we've touched a nerve.

- I think it's good.

I think she's been killing,

she's getting her point across.

Good for calling him out on the insinuation.

- Next question here for Secretary Clinton,

it's addressed to you.

And it's about this issue of the speeches,

particularly to Goldman Sachs.

She asked whether you would release the transcripts

of your Goldman Sachs speeches.

Don't you think the voting public has a right to know

what was said?

But let's make that bigger.

Are you willing to release the transcripts of all

your paid speeches?

Would you release all of them?

- I will look into it.

I don't know the status but I will certainly look into it.

- You have a whole fucking two hour debate

that's all just gonna be fuckin' where's your transcripts?

Yeah, agreed.

- Man.

She has no idea.

Why would she know?

That's what I said earlier today, Brian.

Why during the debates

when you were asked to release the transcripts

of the Wall Street speeches,

why did you not want to do it?

- You know I wanted to force him to release his tax returns.

So I made it a trade.

You release your speeches, we'll release our speeches.

You release your tax returns, we'll release our speeches.

And maybe, I dug my heels in thinking,

you know, this is ridiculous.

- Like what are we doing when she's having to release

all our shit, enough!

- This is like, in all seriousness,

I think there's some legitimate reporters

that would say, fine.

But for $200,000 for a couple of hours,

it's not crazy to say,

"What exactly did you say?".

- I made speeches to the Camping Association.

I made speeches to Doctors.

I made, that's how I made some money when I got out of

being in the State Department.

I didn't go on somebody's board.

I didn't sign up to lobby for somebody.

I didn't take one of these phony jobs,

where you're fronting for a corporation.

I didn't do any of that.

I gave a speech for an hour.

And they paid me.

- You know if you live your life worrying about optics

too much, it can consume you.

And you become this, you get yourself tied up in knots.

But she's giving speeches to Wall Street at time

when they had gotten federal money to bail them out.

To put yourself in a position to be seen

as being too close to them was a mistake.

- It's a fundamental thing, the Clintons.

She thinks I can't be corrupted or compromised

because of a speech.

There is this sense that she knows that she is an ethic

and moral righteous person and therefore,

if she decided this is an okay thing to do

then it's okay.

And anybody who criticizes it must be doing so

for illegitimate reasons.

Because they're partisan, they're enemies.

She's a very, she's supremely confident

in her own righteousness.

And that can blind anyone.

That could trip anybody up.

Thank you for supporting us.

I just spoke.

- Thank you, I'm grateful.

- A divided household.

- You'll come to the right side.

In November.

How are you?

- When we lost by 22 points it really settled in,

this was going to be a slog.

The primary season was not going to be a short path

to the nomination.

It was going to be a grind, primary by primary,

caucus by caucus.

And we were already tired.

- Just call him now.

Huma worked out with them that--

We are.

- The difference in this race.

I was like is this what 2008 felt like, Huma?

She said, yeah.

This is what it felt like.

We're gonna lose.

She and John were like, we're gonna lose.

We're going to lose the democratic primary.

Bernie Sanders is gonna be the democratic nominee.

- You guys could not have been more supportive.

You guys did everything you could.

We got hit by a gale force wind.

- Did you feel that this election was different

than any that you had participated in before?

Or did you feel it was it on a different level even

than your '92 election.

- My '92 election, and the '92 election was,

it was a popular selection,

but it wasn't insane.

But it was more about positive populism.

- Bill had served five terms as Governor.

And was thinking about the Presidency.

Anybody who knew him, knew he would do it eventually.

It was just a question of what was the best timing.

And when everybody thought after the first Gulf War,

that George H. W. Bush was absolutely unbeatable.

I thought he could be beaten.

The economy was shaky.

Debt was rising.

There were pieces of the American dream

that were battered.

- I got a call from a guy I knew in Bush's White House.

And he said, you don't wanna run now,

just wait til '96 and you'll win.

- And he basically said to Bill,

We've looked at the field and we think we can beat

everybody but we think you'd be the hardest to beat.

And I am authorized to tell you

that it's our advise to you that you not run.

That you wait and you run in four years.

But if you do run, we will destroy you.

- He said this is the way Washington works.

The press has to have someone at every election.

And we're gonna give 'em you.

We're gonna fill those their heads full of so much stuff

you won't believe it.

And you will not survive it.

We're gonna take you out and we're gonna do it early.

So I told Hillary about it.

I said, you realize what this means don't you.

They will keep their word.

And they will make our lives miserable.

And they will do things we can't even imagine.

Well, she said, if you can be bullied out of the race,

you have no business being president.

- And I basically said, well, they clearly think

you can beat him, so you gotta run now.

- For 12 years, the republicans have tried

to divide us.

They want us to be angry at each other so we won't be

mad at them.

They want us to look at each other across a racial divide,

fixated on one another so we cannot turn our heads

and look to the White House and say,

why are all our incomes going down?

What is happening to all of our jobs?

Why are we all losing our future?

I believe that together we can make America great again.

And that is why today, I proudly announce my candidacy

for President of the United States of America.

- It seemed to me that he was the most liberal,

electable candidate.

And I was very impressed with Hillary.

It was clear that she would play much more than

a ceremonial spousal role.

- We believe in this country and we cannot stand by

for one more year and watch what is happening to it.

- She was in need of a press secretary.

Traditionally, in politics in those days,

you were always aspiring to be

the press secretary to the candidate.

And I thought, this is really different.

- Yes!

- She wasn't only a surrogate.

She was involved in the strategy of the campaign.

Those who know her best say she has an

uncommonly good sense of political strategy.

When to push, when to wait, who to trust,

who to pressure.

- She's critical to the campaign.

We often joke that our campaign slogan should be,

buy one, get one free.

It was true that she had been a full partner

in what I did as Governor.

That the voters were fully aware of it,

and fully, they will vote for or against it

if they didn't want to.

So the Clinton's are running as a team.

And reporters frequently hear people in the crowd

say they think the wrong Clinton is running.

- Why aren't you running?

- There is a draft Hillary movement.

You know that.

- I remember rallies and just all of these young women.

They went out and it was like it's Hillary.

She's been an activist for children's issues

and is a successful lawyer,

she makes three times as much as her husband.

- Her coming onto the public stage really brought

to the forefront feminism and women's roles in society.

- I am who I am.

I'm not about to change who I am or what I have been

for all my life.

We need an end to the politics of abortion.

We oughta give women the kind of support they need

to support themselves, their families,

and be full functioning citizens.

- She was that Rorschach Test for that discussion

in every household about,

what is the role of women in our society

and should the have careers? Or should they not have careers?

Or should they stay home and raise families?

- She very much became a symbol, a cultural symbol.

We didn't hide that light under a bushel.

We shone a light on her because I just thought

she was the most impressive person I'd ever met in my life.

Like this is great.

And from the first day of the campaign,

she was absolutely central to the strategy

but also to the execution and the survival

when we were in trouble.

- Yes, I was Bill Clinton's lover for 12 years.

And for the past two years I have lied to the press

about our relationship to protect him.

The truth is, I loved him.

Allegations of infidelity have dogged

Bill Clinton for some time.

- Have you ever had an extramarital affair Governor?

- If I had, I wouldn't tell you.

It was all over the tabloids.

Bill Clinton,

who I guess was the front runner of the democrats,

is in a little trouble here.

Stories about their relationship,

his extra-curricular activities, it was crazy.

- Everybody had heard the rumors about Bill Clinton.

And everybody wondered, how Hillary Clinton dealt with it.

Did you ever discuss it with Hillary

or was it too much?

- Nope.

- And she never brought it up?

- No, she doesn't, she is not a confider.

Let me just tell you.

- I think that we were, by no means, perfect.

We had challenges like any married couple would have.

I'm not gonna go any further than that.

In our Clinton world,

there was always a question.

Not had he been faithful to his wife?

He'd already told us he hadn't been.

But were these stories true?

And frankly, to this day, I don't know what's true,

and what isn't true.

Do you have any comments about the allegations

from Gennifer Flowers?

- There were hundred of reporters, camera crews,

and boom microphones and camera men back peddling

and falling into each other,

and she had this look of a trapped animal.

She was being hunted for some kind of response.

- I am a private person.

But I think it's important to be a private person

if you're in the public arena.

Because the crushing intensity of total wall to wall

coverage, the expectation that you share

your innermost feelings with people.

Is there anything left if you've basically lived

everything out in public?

- We wanted him to answer it.

Not to disparage anyone else.

But to simply say, here's why we're gonna persevere.

CBS said, we'll create a special edition of 60 minutes,

butted up against the Super Bowl.

The biggest audience possible.

- It was ridiculous to me.

It was a decision that the campaign made,

that it would make sense.

I thought it was a big invasion of our privacy.

I didn't understand why we would do it.

Bill decided to it.

So I said, okay, I'll do it.

- I think most American's would agree that it's very

admirable that you have stayed together,

that you worked your problems out,

that you seem to have reached some sort of an understanding

and an arrangement.

- Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute,

you're looking at two people who love each other.

This is not an arrangement or an understanding,

this is a marriage.

That's a very different thing.

- I'm not sitting here some little woman standing

by my man like Tammy Wynette.

I'm sitting here because I love him

and I respect him, and I honor what he's been through

and what we've been through together.

And you know if that's not enough for people,

then, heck, don't vote for him.

- If she's not there, sitting next to him,

validating him, that's the end.

And instead, she's telling the public, look,

whatever problems we've had in our marriage,

I've dealt with them.

Therefore, you don't need to worry about them

and that was enough.

But it set a marker for where she would

be for years to come.

The person who was constantly required to forgive

and prop up a husband no matter how many things

he had done to hurt her.

And later in American life,

we would rethink that kind of role for a spouse.

But at the time it was seen as you know

an act of courage on her part.

And a way of to say, well, we can move on.

- The question of Mr. Clinton's recent problems

lead you to believe that he has an electability problem.

- Yeah, I think he's got a big electability problem.

- Well, what do you think of this?

- I wanna tell you what it is.

It was right in front of the Washington Post today,

he is funneling money to his wife's law firm

for state business.

That's number one.

- I don't care what you say about me,

but you oughta be ashamed of yourself for jumping

on my wife.

You're not worth being on the platform as my wife.

- Let me tell you something Mr. Clinton,

don't try to escape it.

- Jerry Brown accused Hillary of making money

off her Governor husband.

For years Hillary Clinton,

named one of the top lawyers in the country,

says she went to great lengths to avoid

any conflict of interest.

- She's the only woman partner there

and the lowest paid partner.

In part, because she had insisted

that she not participate

in any profits that came from doing business

with the state of Arkansas.

Governor, Governor,

what about Jerry Brown's attack on you ethics?

- Well, he attacked my wife last night for having

a law practice.

That was amazing.

And he deliberately misrepresented the

Washington Post article.

I don't.

- Ask her, ask her.

- My firm does a lot of business ever since I've been

in that firm, I have not shared in one dollar

of state funds that has ever, ever gone to my firm.

- I wish that were true, but it's not. No, no.

You know, I suppose I could've stayed home

and baked cookies and had teas,

but what I decided to do as fulfill my profession,

which I entered before my husband was in public life.

- And I'm watching that off to the side with Stephanopoulos.

He elbows me in the ribs and I elbow him in the ribs

and we're.

- And I've tried very, very hard to be as careful

as possible and that's all I can tell you.

Thank you.

- And I wander over when the cameras have left.

I pulled her aside and I say,

you know Hillary, they're gonna kill you for this.

She said, what are you talking about?

I said, you just said stay-at-home moms were no good,

and that you wouldn't want to be.

She said, no, no, no.

I was just talking about all the frivolous stuff

that first ladies sometimes are required to do.

And I said, that's not how people are gonna hear it.

She said, Paul, my mother was a stay-at-home mom

and she's my hero.

- I said, that's not what they are gonna hear.

I can see her.

Was her last moment of true naivete with the media.

She put her arm around me and she said,

Paulie, you just worry too much.

Nobody's gonna think that.

- I was ready to like her.

Not now, after what she said.

She obviously doesn't have respect for what I do.

- The backlash, it took on a life of it's own.

She has a flippant attitude about all the women

who stay home.

- She has no use for us, we have no use for her.

You probably wish you hadn't said it.

- Well, I wish what I said before and what I said after

had all been part of the sound bite.

But I'm learning that that's not always what you can expect.

Even when I thought I was trying to reach out and be

as forthcoming as I could.

Or to be kinda reveal myself,

I just felt like I was running into brick walls

all the time.

I couldn't figure out what is it they want from me.

- Every time she tried to break the script,

and be extemporaneous, she winds up being criticized.

So she stops.

You know it's like a flower that just keeps on closing down

until after a while,

you appear packaged.

- We're at the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago.

And we'd filmed it for focus groups to see what was working

and what wasn't.

And when she walked down the stage,

the dials in the focus group just went.

Bill looks at it,

takes it in,

and says, "You know, they just hated her hairstyle

that night."

Obviously, that wasn't what it was.

It was that she'd just made this comment about moms.

And he knew that,

but he was not going to brook any discussion of maybe

her having hurt him,

being as she had just saved him.

- After tea and cookies,

she took a step back and really thought through

how she was gonna present herself.

- We have a little special something for whoever wins

this bingo game.

B-13, B-13.

- Critics said that you've been muzzled.

That you've had to tone yourself down and not be so visible.

Well, if that's the case,

nobody's told me.

The Clinton campaign worked very hard

on changing Hillary's image as the ambitious

yuppie from hell.

Her role, comments and even her look,

have been moderated lately.

There she was this week, holding her husbands umbrella.

She has a new, softer hairdo,

a new best friend, Tipper Gore.

When the wives are introduced these days

it's to take a bow and step back.

- Those were decisions that I made as a way to

you know, eliminate some of the friction.

But the damage had been done.

She'd been tagged an elitist and an ultra-feminist.

- Hillary has compared marriage and the family

as institutions to slavery and life on an Indian reservation.

This my friends, this is radical feminism.

- I'm a little surprised that they resorted

to the attacks on my wife.

You know it's almost as if they were running

for first lady instead of president.

And it's not really about Hillary.

What they're trying to do is to make a thing

against all independent working women you know trying to run

against them in a way that I think is really lamentable.

Not just a contest

between Democrats and Republicans,

this election has become a referendum on the role of women.

- This has been called

the year of the woman in American politics.

- This is the year of the woman.

- Well, 1992 was the Year of the Woman

after the Anita Hill debacle.

- George H. W. Bush nominated Clarence Thomas

and Anita Hill came forward to say

that she had been sexually harassed by him.

- And then the hearings came.

And I mean most of us were dumbstruck.

- Are you a scorned woman?

Do you have a martyr complex?

Are you interested in writing a book?

- Women were watching the dais full of only men,

you know, grilling this woman.

- You are not drawing a conclusion

that Judge Thomas sexually harassed you?

- Yes, I am drawing that conclusion.

That is my-- - Well then,

I don't understand.

- The treatment of Anita Hill sparked such an outrage.

- It became an example of a government administration

that did not hear us, did not see us, did not respect us.

And I think the tide began to turn.

- There are 11 women running for US Senate

and 107 the most ever chasing seats in the House.

Contributions to groups that help elect women

have tripled since the Senate's treatment of Anita Hill.

- Just one week before the anniversary of the hearings

with Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas,

don't we seek our revenge?

When I went to the Senate in 1986,

I was the first Democratic woman elected in her own right

in all of American history.

Even in 1992 there were only two women,

Senator Kestenbaum of Kansas and myself.

We were viewed as novelties.

I mean there was no ladies room.

Is there a gender revolution waiting to happen?

Can American politics

change so suddenly and so dramatically?

- I was thrilled that so many women were running

and I campaigned for a bunch of them.

- I think we know where the energy

in the Democratic Party in America is today.

I'd be glad to be on Diane Feinstein

and Barbara Boxer's coattails any day.

- Any political practitioner would tell you

maybe you can get one woman elected.

But the idea to get two, not possible.

She is the new senator-elect

Carol Mosely Braun!

- Carol Mosely Braun of Illinois,

Patty Murray, Washington State,

Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein California.

I felt like I was walking on the moon.

There are so many new women in the Senate

that Majority Leader George Mitchell

ordered their own bathroom built next to the men's room.

The United States of America

has a new president tonight from a new generation.

- I want to begin this night by thanking my wife

who I believe will be one of the greatest first ladies

in the history of this republic.

- Hillary Clinton was gonna be part of this new wave

of powerful women in Washington.

Women who had ideas that could define this administration.

- I remember just being almost

in a state of delirious shock.

I'm thrilled and excited.

I'm starting to think, my gosh, what does this

really mean because when you're in a campaign

you can't think about anything else.

You just get up every day and you get out there

and do your best to make your case.

The Clinton campaign has a tough road ahead.

Right now, Senator Bernie Sanders has more momentum.

And she really is gonna have to

kick up her campaign to another gear.

- I always thought of Hillary as sort of ahead of her time

and never quite of her time.

During the primary she was being portrayed as the centrist

cozying up with Wall Street and I think a wide swath

of the Democratic electorate didn't realize

that for most of her career

she was like the scary bra burning feminist liberal.

It's like, you've spent most of your career

trying to convince the world

that you're not this scary liberal

and now you're trying to convince the world

that you are a liberal.

Yeah, it had to be exasperating.

- At that point in the primary she's the loser, right.

And that's it and you have to live with that.

But she is incredibly good as an underdog

and we marched on to Nevada.

- Hi, everybody.

Happy Valentines Day!

- I think she was running the best

when she was running scared.

She was like going to the basement of casinos at midnight

to shake hands with every maid, every cook.

- Hey Eric, how are you?

Good, ma'am, how are you?

- I don't know.

I'm trying to wake up.

Well, thanks for letting me barge in at midnight.

Hi!

- How are you?

It's so great to see you.

Hello, hello.

I came to help, I came to help.

I know you're doing a hard job.

- And I also think like these were her people in Nevada.

These were minimum wage workers, these were union workers,

these were a lot of women,

a lot of Latinas, a lot of immigrants.

And she really connected with these women.

- So good to see you!

- Hillary!

- Good for you!

- HRC 2016, HRC 2016, HRC 2016, HRC 2016!

HRC!

- When she got to the South,

we knew this was gonna be the firewall.

It was her base, it was her coalition.

- This is the day the Lord has made.

Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

- Almost every Sunday we went to a black church

with Hillary Clinton and this wasn't something

that she just like showed up ahead of an election.

These were people who knew her,

who welcomed her back to their churches

and she was incredibly comfortable in these settings.

- I don't want to be the president for only some Americans.

I want to be the president for all Americans.

- The Clintons' relationship with black voters

in the United States goes back decades.

Bill Clinton was dubbed the first black president

many years before

there actually was a first black president.

And Hillary Clinton had relationships with a lot

of the activist movement leaders.

She knew that if she could get to South Carolina

in decent shape that it could be a turning point

in her progress towards the nomination.

We're gonna do the staff.

- Congratulations.

What's happening now?

- You're winning.

- We're laughing at a good tweet.

- 75/25 it sounds like a virtual tie.

- Thank you so much, South Carolina.

Tomorrow this campaign goes national.

- It was important that she had a really big showing

in South Carolina because it was gonna pivot her

into the Super Tuesday states.

- And some new projections.

- Just in time.

- First of all, CNN predicts that Donald Trump

wins the Alabama Republican presidential primary.

- Okay.

I think we're winning, we're winning.

We're winning.

We are so punch drunk we have not been,

we have not been home in two weeks.

- That looks a little giddy.

- Bonnie, we took you for a week.

We took Alexa for a few days but we've been on the road.

- We've been on the road.

- I know.

Five states are holding

their primaries on March 15th.

They are the five states

that could decide it all.

Ohio, Illinois, Missouri,

North Carolina and Florida.

Hillary Clinton's people are already using

the term nails in coffin.

- I think it all just came in.

- Hold up, hold up, hold up.

- Wait, hold on.

Joyce, what do you know?

Wait, shh, shh.

- That's so great!

Okay, if he's awake.

Wake him up.

- He's probably trying to call you, Robby.

- I was gonna say.

- What do you mean only 12,000 votes?

Just a minute, hang on a second.

I just wanted you to share in our hysteria on the plane.

- CNN and NBC just called it.

- Missouri?

- NBC and CNN just called Missouri.

- That's a sweep.

- Yep. - It's a sweep!

Yeah, I know it is pretty hard to believe.

Why do you think people say, well,

you know she's so much different in person

than she is in public?

They don't feel like they know the real you

or that maybe you're not as warm as they hear that you are

behind the scenes.

And I'm sure you've heard a million times--

- Sure. -The likeability factor.

- Yeah, but they bring it up with a lot of women.

So, I think there are certainly reasons personal to me.

I also think though that my,

my bluntness,

my outspokenness,

my pushback,

all of that creates cognitive dissonance in people

because I came to national public attention

as quote a first lady.

And there is a set of expectations about a first lady

and I violated them, you know, from the very beginning.

Ladies and gentlemen,

the President of the United States Bill Clinton

and the Vice - First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.

- The Clintons were the first iteration

of the baby boom generation in presidential politics.

For me, Bill Clinton was the first candidate

I covered who wasn't dad.

We baby boomers had a sense of righteousness.

We had been the ones who marched against the war

and in favor of civil rights.

And we had a new set of morals

that many people in the country found really threatening.

The Clintons were gonna knock down the establishment.

- Yes, we were trying to make change.

We thought change was overdue.

We thought change was necessary.

- I remember my mom talking to me about the first ladies

that she really admired.

She talked a lot about Eleanor Roosevelt.

- I had thought a lot about Eleanor Roosevelt

saying do the thing you're most afraid of.

You want to make a difference, you want to have an impact,

well, then you've gotta get in the arena.

- Well, right from the beginning

he gave her a lot of responsibility

the day they walked into the door.

They made it clear she wasn't there to bake cookies.

- She was the first first lady

to have an office in the West Wing.

The president's wife has two official offices.

The usual one in the East Wing where parties are planned

and one in the West Wing where policy is made.

- I can't help but notice that this is an all-chick staff.

Is that something that you did deliberately

or did it just kind of happen?

No, Neil is over there.

Neil, I'm sorry. - Neil's over there

in the corner. - That's right.

Poor Neil.

- She hired all women and I thought that was fantastic.

You know they were smart as a whip

and she had empowered them all.

- We were encouraged to give our opinion.

Like I don't want a bunch of yes people around me

she would say all the time you know.

Don't yes me on this.

You know, what do you really think?

- There was something bigger that united us

and it was being reminded often by the boss

why we are all here.

- You were part of a cause you know part of trying to

you know do great things

and have an impact on the country and the world.

- Hello, this is Hillary Clinton.

I want to thank you for letting me speak with you

about an issue that is central to our children's future,

solving our nation's healthcare crisis.

- The president wanted her to work on healthcare.

She gladly accepted the call.

- I am grateful that Hillary has agreed

to chair this task force.

And not only because it means she'll be sharing

some of the heat I expect to generate.

- It was explosive that the president

would ask his wife to do this work.

I thought, well, you know I'm gonna try to make a difference

in people's lives.

What's more important than healthcare?

- Keep in mind Lyndon Johnson

had the most Democratic congress in modern times.

They passed Medicare, they passed Medicaid.

He did not even try to get universal health coverage,

didn't even try.

- Harry Truman had tried to do it.

Richard Nixon had tried to do it.

And now Hillary Clinton was trying to do it.

After hearing from people

who had been denied medical coverage,

the first lady unloaded on the insurance industry.

- It's almost as though they decided

that nobody should ever get sick.

We should all just drop dead

without ever having been in the hospital.

- She puts together a task force of smart people

policy wonks to figure out how to remake the system.

- Our goal was very simple.

We were going to have guaranteed universal healthcare

at an affordable cost for every American.

Every American will receive a health security card

guaranteeing a comprehensive package of benefits

that can never be taken away under any circumstance.

- For her, it was always about policy.

What is the best way to try to help these families?

And I think she very much believed

that good policy would be good politics.

And that was not the story of that healthcare plan.

- I put her in charge of this committee for a simple reason

that it had worked at home

in what I thought was a more conservative atmosphere.

But the truth was it came to the role of the first lady,

Washington was much more reactionary than Arkansas was.

Mr. Michel and Mr. Gingrich.

Is there any problem with that at all?

- You want to jump in on this or do you want me to?

- Well, I could always ask my wife I guess

to come be my representative but--

- Hillary Clinton was seen as a more rigid

probably more liberal than her husband at the time

during those first two years.

And because she was out front on principle on issues

that maybe half the country didn't think should go that far

it was easy to demonize her.

Change the channel to a comedy show

and see Hillary skewered as the overbearing wife.

- Hillary, why don't you give it a rest?

- The argument was this left-wing woman is ordering

her husband around and you know he's her poodle.

- Just constant attacks from,

you know, shock and talk radio.

And a whole bunch of guys testicles

are in Hillary's lock box, her testicle lock box.

- I can't remember any first lady who has been assaulted

the way she was and treated the way she was.

- It never hurts at all?

- No, it really doesn't. - Really?

- Nope, not unless they go after

a family member or my daughter.

- Let's take a loo and see who is the cute kid

in the White House.

No, no, no, that's not the kid that's the kid.

We tried to--

- Bill Clinton had repositioned

the Democratic Party more to the center.

And so, there was less room for Republicans

and conservatives to attack Bill Clinton

as a crazy socialist or a leftist because he wasn't.

And so, the Republican strategy

became we're going to get the Clintons through scandal.

That was really the seed

that led to the obsession with Whitewater,

a scandal that started with Vincent Foster's death.

- At the White House today the president

may have had trouble concentrating on all this.

Last night his old friend and colleague Vincent Foster,

the deputy White House counsel,

apparently took his own life.

- Vince Foster was a childhood friend of Bill's.

- Vince Foster and I, our backyards touched.

And when Hillary went to work for the Rose Law Firm

and Vince Foster worked there

and became one of the closest friends she ever had.

I mean Vince's wife taught Chelsea to swim.

- He was a terrific law partner, a terrific friend

and was very excited about coming to Washington.

Police said Foster's body

was found at this park just outside Washington,

dead of a gunshot wound to the head.

- It was a very poignant example

of how an outsider can come in

wanting to do well and be just not ready

for the brutality of what goes on in Washington.

As deputy to White House counsel

Bernard Nussbaum, Foster had been involved

in much of the early White House troubles.

His office intensely criticized for its role

in several events embarrassing to Mr. Clinton.

- There were appointments that fell apart.

The blame fell on the White House counsel's office

for not having vetted them properly

and Vince Foster took it very hard.

- He was such a professional and he was so dignified.

I don't think anybody had any idea

that he had fallen into a depression.

- The night before his suicide I called him.

I asked him if he wanted to come watch a movie.

He said no.

He said I've already gone home

and I really need to stay home with Lisa tonight.

And I now know he already knew what he was gonna do.

- I didn't think I could be more distraught or more shocked

but I was when I saw people starting to politicize it,

starting to spin ridiculous conspiracy theories.

- All of a sudden you get stories circulating

in these outlets about Vince Foster

having been murdered by the Clintons.

- Vince was managing their financial disclosure,

tax returns, et cetera.

So, there were kind of two competing theories.

One is that he knew too much

and the Clintons had him killed.

The other was he knew too much

and his only out was to kill himself.

- You know think of the emotions of that.

They were being accused of murder on the editorial pages.

You know who killed Vince Foster?

- It was nuts.

We started being besieged by these vile accusations.

And, yeah, I think that made me even more restrained.

- The response by the Clintons

and the people in the White House didn't help.

They sealed off his office.

Papers were removed from the office.

All of this looked weird.

All of this looks suspicious.

What's going on?

He had been involved in this Whitewater deal

and this is all the recipe for years of painful controversy.

Whitewater, it's an issue that will not die.

There are hints, suggestions and innuendo,

but no smoking gun.

- I thought Whitewater was ridiculous.

No one knew what Whitewater was about.

It was a nonstory and somehow was construed into a scandal.

And she was seen as being kind of sketchy as a result.

Federal Justice Department officials

continue their investigations of friends

of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Jim McDougal was a smart small-town banker

who traveled in the cozy circle

where Arkansas politics and business blur.

- Jim McDougal was developing a property

and he came to Bill and he said

I think it's gonna be a really good deal

because a lot of retirees are gonna move to North Arkansas.

So, would you guys like to be in it?

- It just came at a bad time.

The interest rates went up, the economy went down.

And so, we lost the money.

- Jim McDougal went on to buy an S&L savings and loan.

The Clintons didn't own stock in it.

They had nothing really to do with it.

Hillary's law firm did a tiny bit of legal work for it

at one point but they weren't the main law firm.

In this building

the McDougals ran an S&L Madison Guaranty

which the government has since shut down.

- Ultimately, Jim McDougal gets convicted of fraud,

sent to prison.

The question was always how much did Bill Clinton

know what Jim McDougal was doing?

How much did Hillary Clinton know

what Jim McDougal was doing?

Should they have known if they didn't?

But to the Clintons,

Whitewater becomes a metaphor for Washington.

A metaphor for how people are out to get them.

And that Whitewater was used as a vehicle to do just that.

- I mean going all the way back to the Whitewater days,

I don't understand.

I've never understood this.

And I probably will go to my grave not understanding it.

All these things about us get disproved.

But the press, and I'm talking about the major organs

of the press,

not the Breitbarts and the Infowars and the crazy people.

They always bite.

And I don't know why.

I mean it must be,

there's an old joke about an old guy

who is you know walking along the edge of a cliff and,

he slips and as he's falling down,

he grabs onto a branch and he's holding on.

And he's praying and he's going, God, God,

I've lived a good life you know I have.

I've done everything I'm supposed to do.

I was a good husband, I was a good father.

I was an honest businessperson.

Please, lord, help me, help me.

And this voice, you know, just comes out and says,

you know, there's just something about you

that pisses me off.

- The Washington Post became quite seriously interested

in what happened and put a couple of people on the story

and began asking for documents from the White House.

- There was a famous moment when the Washington Post

offered the Clintons to just sit down

and make everything public.

Just answer all of our questions

and then that will be the end of Whitewater.

David Gergen wanted Bill and Hillary to do that.

- I was told by our lawyers

that there are some embarrassing things in there

but there is nothing criminal.

I told the president it's gonna be a three-day story.

Just get it out in the open, deal with it and move on.

He said, you know you're right.

Let's do it.

I said fine, great.

So, I started to walk out and he said,

but there is one thing we didn't talk about.

I said what's that?

And he said you know Hillary was involved in this too.

I said, yeah, I know that.

And he said, well, we need her agreement too.

I said fine get back to me when you have it.

And he said, no, no, you don't understand.

You have to go get her agreement.

And I was sort of thinking she's not my wife,

Kemosabe, you know what.

I got a call from Hillary's people

saying we've sent a letter over to the Washington Post

basically Dear Washington Post, screw you.

We're not giving you any documents.

- I take responsibility for the unfortunate relationship

that I have with the press.

I was too quick to be defensive.

I didn't play the game well enough.

I knew there was a game to be played

and I was striking out all the time.

- Hi, guys.

Ho, ho, ho.

- No, we're having a good time.

Did it ruin Christmas for you?

- No, no.

- The press started demanding a special counsel.

We gotta have a special counsel.

We gotta have a special counsel.

And you advised him not to?

- Absolutely, I advised him not to

and anybody else who would listen

I said it was a terrible mistake and you shouldn't do it.

I didn't think we had done anything wrong,

why would we agree to that?

But you'll have to ask Bill.

I mean he basically was told if he didn't

it would be on the front page all the time

and all the other things he was doing

that were so important would get drowned out.

- I told them to go ahead to do it.

It's the worst mistake I ever made.

It was a terrible mistake.

Today the White House

finally gave into demands for a special prosecutor.

- The Attorney General Janet Reno

has named a Republican lawyer to be what everybody

will surely call the Whitewater special counsel.

- All of us who were working

in these senior roles were subpoenaed.

Everything was asked about.

And it got to the point where

you couldn't get any work done.

The first lady who so jealously

guards her privacy suddenly decided to open up today.

Mrs. Clinton, Mrs. Clinton...

- How does my husband ever make these choices?

These are hard choices.

- I'm wondering what kind of a toll if any

this has taken on you

and your and the President's personal and political lives.

And do you ever look in the mirror

and wish that you just never got into this?

- No, never, never.

I mean some days are better than other days but,

I try to do what I'm expected to do

which for me is working on healthcare.

Mrs. Clinton, Mrs. Clinton...

- After the Whitewater

people had these extreme reactions to her.

So, when healthcare is rolling out

there was a lot of question about whether

she should remain you know in such a visible role.

I remember we did a bus tour

trying to promote quote Hillarycare.

There were just so many protesters and hecklers.

Whitewater shame on you.

Whitewater shame on you.

Whitewater shame on you.

Whitewater shame on you.

Whitewater shame on you.

- You know there is an old saying that I always liked

and that is that

if you don't have the facts on your side, yell.

And there is a lot of yelling going on.

- Get out of town.

Get out of town.

- There was a rally in Kentucky

where they burned her in effigy.

- It was really scary because you never knew

if somebody could you know just lose it.

- The Secret Service came to me

and said there could be violence.

Violence?

They'd collected knives and firearms.

It was the first time

that I remember being physically threatened.

Just so much hatred

and the whole thing became toxic, absolutely toxic.

- And so, what began as I think a noble cause

went down in flames,

against an opposition that was very, very tough.

There is no question that the Republicans wanted to kill it.

Cruel news for the estimated

one out of seven Americans who are uninsured

healthcare reform has been pronounced dead

for this session of Congress.

If you could have changed anything,

any mistakes that you felt you made?

- I made, we made so many mistakes.

I mean we were trying to do something

that had never been done before.

And I don't think I would have taken the upfront role.

I think that was a mistake.

I think that somebody else

could have and should have led it.

I could have been an advocate for it.

I would have been a passion advocate.

I could have traveled the country.

But to take on the responsibility of chairing it

and all that that entailed and all the red flags

that that put up, that was a mistake.

I should not have done that.

I was really crushed when healthcare went down.

And then the election happened, the '94 election.

- This is truly a wildly historic night.

I mean this is just, you know.

For the first time in 40 years,

the Republicans have won control of both houses of Congress.

- It was a catastrophe.

And they came in guns blazing.

And a lot of those guns pointed at Hillary.

- And she is at a loss at this moment.

She doesn't know what her role is gonna be.

It's not gonna be healthcare.

What is she gonna do?

- So, I thought, you know, I have to recede.

I just created too much static.

So, after all of that, how do you move on?

- Well, if somebody,

not just somebody, a number of somebodies are attacking you,

lying about you, making up stuff about you,

you got two choices.

You just can walk away and say I don't care

what they believe and you know whatever, whatever, whatever.

Or more hopefully you can say

I'm not gonna let it bother me.

And I'm gonna fight back in every way that I can fight back.

And sometimes you're successful and sometimes you're not.

I mean people still believe weird,

wacky things about me

because they've been told over and over again

that you know I killed people, I robbed people.

I mean who the heck knows what they're told.