Hillary: Trump Is ‘a Clear and Present Danger to Our Country and to the World’

‘I’m deeply concerned’

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If her interview Friday night on PBS is any indication, Hillary Clinton is remaining firmly in the political arena. 

Clinton is now warning that President Trump represents "a clear and present danger to our country and to the world."

The comments came after PBS host Judy Woodruff asked Clinton whether the secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, had reached out to Clinton. 

Clinton then launched into a diatribe against not just Trump's State Department, but his handling of North Korea and foreign policy more generally. 

Here's a transcript of the exchange:

WOODRUFF: “Has he reached out to you?”

CLINTON: “No.”

WOODRUFF: “Secretary Tillerson?”

CLINTON: “I don’t know, I don’t know who he’s reached out to. He certainly hasn’t reached out to me. Um, you have Secretary Mattis, who often acts like both secretary of Defense and secretary of State, because there’s a big void to kill there. You have a White House that has been, you know, in disarray over national security from the very first day. 

"And so many of the people in our government with great expertise— let’s take north Korea, which is a very serious threat right now. There were, and maybe still are, a number of people in the State Department who speak the language, understand the history, have studied Kim Jong-Un, are ready to be part of a diplomatic offensive. They’re not being called upon. So, I think that you’ve got a president who makes diplomatic pronouncements on Twitter, who gives aid and comfort to people like Kim Jong-Un and Vladimir Putin.

"Because often, what he says is not about them and the threat they pose, so much as going after our friends and allies. As, you know, President Trump just did, going after South Korea. That makes no sense at all. And he’s being played by these dictators in a way that undercuts our credibility and the capacity to come up with a diplomatic solution in that region and other places. So I’m deeply concerned and I think, in many ways the Trump presidency poses a clear and present danger to our country and to the world.”

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