Bloomberg
By Arit John
July 7, 2015
After almost three months on the campaign trail, the Democratic presidential candidate gives her first interview to CNN.
Hillary
Clinton used her first nationally televised interview as a presidential
candidate to attack the Republican party for failing to denounce Donald
Trump's much-publicized
comments on Mexican immigrants.
During
a June 16 speech announcing his presidential campaign, Trump said
Mexicans bring drugs and crime into the U.S. while also calling
immigrants from Mexico “rapists.”
Clinton said she was disappointed in the Republican Party for not
responding immediately to Trump's remarks and that Republicans are "all
in the same general area" when it comes to their stances on immigration
reform.
"They
don't want to provide a path to citizenship," Clinton said. "They range
across a spectrum of being either grudgingly welcome or hostile towards
immigrants."
“They range across a spectrum of being either grudgingly welcome or hostile towards immigrants.”
In
the interview Tuesday with CNN reporter Brianna Keilar, Clinton
addressed controversy over her past e-mails as secretary of state, her
trustworthiness, and her relations
with the press—even whether Kate McKinnon or Amy Poehler impersonates
her better on Saturday Night Live (she declined to choose).
Much
of the interview focused on questions about Clinton's trustworthiness,
after Keilar said a recent CNN poll found that nearly six in 10 people
polled didn't think
Clinton was honest or trustworthy.
"I
can only tell you, Brianna, that this has been a theme that has been
used against me and my husband for many, many years," she said. "And at
the end of the day, I think
voters sort it all out."
On the subject of her use of a private server for e-mails as secretary of state, she said everything she did was appropriate.
"Everything
I did was permitted," she said. "There was no law. There was no
regulation. There was nothing that did not give me the full authority to
decide how I was going
to communicate."
Clinton
appeared less willing to discuss her opponent in the presidential
primary, Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders. When asked about
why Sanders is pulling
large crowds in cities across the country, she said that she always
expected the race to be competitive and repeated that she's happy about
how her campaign is going.
"I
think I've learned a lot from listening to people in Iowa. And it's
actually affected what I say and what I talk about on the campaign
trail," she said. "So I couldn't
be happier about my campaign."
Near
the end of the interview, Keilar touched on Clinton's media strategy,
including her use of a rope line to separate herself from reporters
during a parade in New Hampshire
over the weekend. Clinton said that she's focusing on listening to
people talk about domestic issues this time around.
"I
just have a different rhythm to my campaign. I'm not running my
campaign for the press. I'm running it for voters," she said. "I totally
respect the press and what
the press has to do. But I wanted and was determined to have the time
that I needed to actually meet and listen to people."
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