Carly Fiorina joined me on today’s show:
Audio: 12-29hhs-fiorina
Transcript:
HH: As we come in running into the corner of the New Year, everyone is not working this week unless they’re running for president, but I have a feeling that Carly Fiorina is working somewhere today. Maybe in Iowa, maybe in New Hampshire, maybe in South Carolina, that’s where I’ve been catching up with her recently when it’s not Las Vegas. Carly Fiorina, Happy New Year. I hope you had a Merry Christmas.
CF: I did Hugh. How about you?
HH: A wonderful one, but where do I find you today? Are you at home or back on the trail?
CF: Well, believe it or not, I am at home today.
HH: (Laughs) Oh good. I found Governor Huckabee in a duck-hunting thing, so maybe everyone gets the week off (laughs).
CF: Well, I’m happy to talk with you.
HH: Now let me begin by playing for you a clip of Donald Trump talking this morning with Savannah Guthrie about Hilary and Bill Clinton. As a woman candidate, I want your perspective on this. [Audio file delay] Have you heard this exchange yet, Carly?
CF: Well, I’ve heard some versions of it, but–
HH: Here we are, now we can play it.
CF: Okay.
DT: There was certainly a lot of abuse of women and you look at whether it’s Monica Lewinsky or or Paula Jones or many of them and that certainly will be fair game, certainly if they play the woman’s card with respect to me. That will be fair game.
SG: You mentioned Monica Lewinsky. Are you saying an alleged extramarital affair that of course he has now admitted, is that fair game in a campaign?
DT: Is that alleged? I don’t think that’s alleged.
SG: No, he’s admitted it.
DT: Well, he’s admitted it, as you know, I just used the alleged.
SG: Right, exactly, so are you saying [an] extramarital affair by Bill Clinton is fair game, it’s something you think should be in the campaign.
DT: I’m not saying [that], what I’m saying is very simple. If she is going to play the woman card because I’ll do more for women than Hillary Clinton is going to do for women, including the safety of our country which is good for everybody. But if she’s going to play what she started about a week ago talking about, “Oh, he mentioned the whole thing,” playing up the woman card very strongly, and if she’s going to play that game, and he’s going to be out there campaigning, then he’s certainly fair game and I think just about everybody agrees with me on that.
HH: Carly Fiorina, do you agree with him on that?
CF: Well of course Bill Clinton is fair game, but that isn’t the way to beat Hilary Clinton. Continue Reading