Hillary on 2016: ‘The Press Has Some Soul Searching To Do’

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WOODRUFF: “Finally, you’ve been saying that you don’t plan to run for office again, but you’ll be very active in public life.
CLINTON: “I’m excited about this next chapter in my life. I think there’s a lot to be done, and in the book I try to sound some alarms because what happened to me is not very generous. Like “Okay, it happened to her, we can move on.” Voter suppression will make it more and more difficult. You have a White House commission that was set up under the guise of fraud, which hardly exists anywhere in America, to suppress even more voters. You’ve got the Russia unanswered questions. You’ve got sexism and misogyny, and I think the press has to do some soul-searching. How can it, in a democracy— and you know, that’s really one of the real shining contributions of your program, Judy— in a democracy, if people don’t have accurate information, how can they be active citizens? How can they be part of the debate? And if you are facing powerful forces on the right and in this administration who want to create an alternative reality that feeds into their objectives for our country, you more than ever need the press to cut through that, and to be as accurate as possible. And so I think all of us have some work to do. Because look, we love this country. I, for one, am deeply grateful for the opportunities that I’ve been given. I think we all have a role to play in making sure it’s there for my grandchildren, in a way that is just as vigorous, contentious, argumentative, but reality-based, evidence-based, reason-based, which was at the core of who we’ve been as a democracy for 240 years.”
WOODRUFF: “Hillary Clinton, the book is ‘What happened.”
CLINTON: “What happened.”
WOODRUFF: “Thank you very much.”