Amanda Carpenter: ‘Hillary Clinton Hasn’t Been Held Accountable for Her Role’ in Bill Clinton’s Sins
TAPPER: What do you think, Neera?
NEERA TANDEN, PRESIDENT AND CEO, CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: Here’s what — I will say I worked for President Clinton during impeachment and during the whole process and I do think being a president who was impeached was a punishment for this. I have to say he faced a lot more punishment than the current president who has 16 accusers.
So if you’re going to look at people and say we can look 20 years ago at a former president, we can look in the last decade at a current president. And I find it outrageous that Donald Trump won’t speak about Roy Moore who’s accused of that. (INAUDIBLE) —
TAPPER: (INAUDIBLE).
TANDEN: And he’s — not last week. Has said very much. He won’t (ph) talk about it
CAPUTO: He’s not going to speak about it every hour. He’s not going to do that.
TAPPER: But he hasn’t — I guess, the White House has said —
TANDEN: Give me a break.
TAPPER: The White House has said just to — the White House has said that the president finds the allegations disturbing and if true, he should step down, but they haven’t said whether or not he thinks the allegations are true.
Amanda —
AMANDA CARPENTER, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: I want to go back in terms of the talk about account ability. I think there’s an argument that Bill Clinton was held accountable. The question is was Hillary Clinton for her role?
Donald Trump effectively made the case that she was an enabler. She has never fully answered that question. Even that interview with Rita Cosby which I found stunning she said that people misremembered or misinterpreting the history of that.
I mean, she publicly said if she had the chance to cross examine Gennifer Flowers she would crucify her. And then on the campaign trail she said that victims should be believed. Those things don’t line up.
So Hillary Clinton hasn’t been held accountable for her role. She refuses to answer questions of it and I think that is the reason why she lost the 2016 election because Donald Trump was able to throw that in her face and she did not want to confront it.
TANDEN: This is ridiculous. I’m sorry. This is ridiculous.
CARPENTER: She has a role.
CAPUTO: It’s not ridiculous.
TAPPER: Hold on —
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TAPPER: — Neera and then we’ll come to you.
TANDEN: Hillary Clinton should be held accountable for the sins of her husband but Donald Trump’s own sins, no one’s going to hold him accountable for.
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CARPENTER: — a great column today.
TANDEN: Excuse me. If you’re going to hold Hillary Clinton accountable for what her husband did then why can’t you say Donald Trump —
CARPENTER: I do all the time.
TANDEN: — has 16 accusers. And —
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CARPENTER: You need to tell that to someone else.
(CROSSTALK) TANDEN: Let’s have a proceeding about it.
CARPENTER: (INAUDIBLE) with someone else not me.
TANDEN: Let’s have a proceeding about it. Let’s have a proceeding about it.
TAPPER: Just to be fair Amanda does say it all the time about Donald Trump.
TANDEN: Exactly but — OK. So — but for Republicans at large —
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TANDEN: — why do we have to say, what is the process for adjudicating the women today who are making these accusations?
KELLY: And also when Trump’s bus ride came out Melania took up for him and no one’s holding her accountable.
CARPENTER: Well, she’s not running for office. If she was running for office that would be an issue.
KELLY: But she said —
CAPUTO: But she’s also not running in opposition.
TAPPER: Right.
CARPENTER: Yes.
TANDEN: Hillary is not running the opposition either.
CAPUTO: All these people (INAUDIBLE) claim to attack —
TANDEN: I know you would like her to be running the opposition but she’s not.
CAPUTO: Well, I know you’d like us to believe that she’s not but she definitely is —
TANDEN: How? How?
CAPUTO; By funding organizations and raising money and all her former staffers attacking Bill — Donald Trump every day. Passing along this fallacy of this Russia investigation. She’s —
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TANDEN: The fallacy of the Russian investigation.
CAPUTO: Absolutely.
