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What Did Clinton Know And When Did She Know It? The Russiagate Evidence Builds

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/01/27/what_did_clinton_know_about_the_russiagate_smear_and_when_did_she_know_it_the_evidence_builds_813739.html

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/09/23/biden_security_adviser_sullivan_tied_to_16_clinton_plan_to_co-opt_cia_and_fbi_to_tar_trump_795498.html
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https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/793250312119263233
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https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/10/28/clinton_campaign_spread_bogus_alfa_bank_story_obama_admin-wide_to_press_trump-russia_probe_800927.html
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/03/24/the-clinton-campaign-warned-you-about-russia-but-nobody-listened-to-us/

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As indictments and new court filings indicate that Special Counsel
John Durham is investigating Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign for
feeding false reports to the FBI to incriminate Donald Trump and his
advisers as Kremlin agents, Clinton’s role in the burgeoning scandal
remains elusive. What did she know and when did she know it?

Top officials involved in her campaign have repeatedly claimed, some
under oath, that they and the candidate were unaware of the foundation
of their disinformation campaign: the 35-page collection of now
debunked claims of Trump/Russia collusion known as the Steele dossier.
Even though her campaign helped pay for the dossier, they claim she
only read it after BuzzFeed News published it in 2017.

But court documents, behind-the-scenes video footage and recently
surfaced evidence reveal that Clinton and her top campaign advisers
were much more involved in the more than $1 million operation to
dredge up dirt on Trump and Russia than they have let on. The evidence
suggests that the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory sprang from a
multi-pronged effort within the Clinton campaign, which manufactured
many of the false claims, then fed them to friendly media and law
enforcement officials. Clinton herself was at the center of these
efforts, using her personal Twitter account and presidential debates
to echo the false claims of Steele and others that Trump was in
cahoots with the Russians.

Although Clinton has not been pressed by major media on her role in
Russiagate, a short scene in the 2020 documentary “Hillary” suggests
she was aware of the effort. It shows Clinton speaking to her running
mate, Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, and his wife, Anne, in hushed tones
about Trump and Russia in a back room before a campaign event in early
October 2016. Clinton expressed concerns over Trump’s “weird
connections” to Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. She informed
Kaine that she and her aides were “scratching hard” to expose them, a
project Kaine seemed to be hearing about for the first time.

“I don’t say this lightly,” Clinton whispered, pausing to look over
her shoulder, "[but Trump’s] agenda is other people’s agenda.”

"We’re scratching hard, trying to figure it out,” she continued. "He
is the vehicle, the vessel for all these other people.”

The two then discussed “all these weird connections” between the Trump
campaign and Russia. Kaine brought up former Trump Campaign Manager
Paul Manafort, and Clinton expressed suspicion about Trump’s
then-national security adviser, ret. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, "who is a
paid tool for Russian television.”

Added Clinton: “This is what scares me … the way that Putin has taken
over the political apparatus, or is trying to — .” At that point, a
media handler interrupted them over some staging issues, and they
stopped discussing Trump and Russia.
Jake Sullivan: Promoted collusion -- but denied under oath knowing
details of the dossier project.

Both Manafort and Flynn had been cited in dossier reports submitted to
the Clinton campaign before the two Democratic nominees had their
October 2016 conversation. The dossier falsely accused Manafort, Flynn
and other Trump advisers of participating in a Kremlin conspiracy to
steal the election for Trump.

Dossier author Christopher Steele himself has suggested Clinton was
briefed on his reports. On July 5, 2016 — the same day the FBI
publicly exonerated Clinton in her email scandal — Steele handed off
the first installments of the dossier to an FBI agent overseas who had
handled him previously as an informant. In their London meeting,
Steele noted that Clinton was aware of his reporting, according to
contemporaneous notes Steele took of their conversation.

“The notes reflect that Steele told [his FBI handler Michael Gaeta]
that Steele was aware that ‘Democratic Party associates’ were paying
for [his] research; the ‘ultimate client’ was the leadership of the
Clinton presidential campaign; and ‘the candidate’ was aware of
Steele’s reporting,” Justice Department watchdog Michael Horowitz
wrote in his 2019 report examining the FBI’s use of the dossier to
justify spying on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

Later that same month, during the Democratic National Convention in
Philadelphia, the CIA picked up Russian chatter about a Clinton
foreign policy adviser who was trying to develop allegations to
“vilify” Trump. The intercepts said Clinton herself had approved a
“plan” to “stir up a scandal” against Trump by tying him to Putin.
According to handwritten notes, then-CIA chief John Brennan warned
President Obama that Moscow had intercepted information about the
“alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016, of a proposal
from one of her foreign policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump.”

At the convention, Clinton foreign policy adviser Jake Sullivan drove
a golf cart from one TV-network news tent in the parking lot to
another, pitching producers, anchors, correspondents and even some NBC
network executives a story that Trump and his advisers were in bed
with Putin and possibly conspiring with Russian intelligence to steal
the election. He also visited CNN and MSNBC, as well as Fox News, to
spin the Clinton campaign’s unfounded theories. Sullivan even sat down
with CNN honcho Jeff Zucker to outline the opposition research they
had gathered on Trump and Russia.

Sullivan’s title was misleading. He was far more than a foreign policy
adviser to Clinton. His portfolio included campaign strategy.

“Hillary told Sullivan she wanted him to take over [her campaign],”
journalists Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen reported in their 2017
bestseller, "Shattered: Inside Hillary’s Doomed Campaign.” “You’re
going to be my traffic cop and my rabbi, she told Sullivan, adding
that he would be her de facto chief strategist.”

Sullivan was included in “every aspect of her campaign strategy,” they
wrote, because “no one on the official campaign staff understood
Hillary’s thought process as well as Sullivan."

Now serving in the White House as President Biden’s national security
adviser, Sullivan has denied under oath knowing details about the
dossier project.
Clinton Campaign Manager Robby Mook (with Director of Communications
Jennifer Palmieri, rear) went in front of cameras to echo essentially
what Steele had reported back to the campaign. (AP)

Sullivan spread the anti-Trump rumors behind the scenes while Clinton
Campaign Manager Robby Mook went in front of the cameras to echo
essentially what Steele, a former British intelligence officer, had
reported back to the campaign.

"Experts are telling us that Russian state actors broke into the DNC,
stole these emails, and other experts are now saying the Russians are
releasing these emails for the purpose of actually helping Donald
Trump,” Mook told CNN’s Jake Tapper at the convention. He made the
same allegations on ABC News’ “This Week,” anchored by George
Stephanopoulos, who served as White House communication director
during Bill Clinton’s presidency..

Hillary Clinton campaign Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri has
acknowledged that they were all bent on casting a “cloud" of suspicion
over Trump and seeding doubt about his loyalties by suggesting “the
possibility of collusion between Trump’s allies and Russian
intelligence."

“We were on a mission to get the press to focus on the prospect that
Russia had not only hacked and stolen emails from the Democratic
National Committee, but that it had done so to help Donald Trump and
hurt Hillary Clinton,” Palmieri stated in a 2017 Washington Post
column. “We wanted to raise the alarm.”

It’s not known if their media blitz was coordinated with Glenn
Simpson, the Clinton campaign’s opposition-research contractor who
hired Steele for $168,000. But Simpson also attended the convention in
Philadelphia, and at the same time Clinton’s top people were making
the TV media rounds, Simpson and his Fusion GPS co-founder, Peter
Fritsch, were meeting with the New York Times and other major print
media outlets to pitch Russia “collusion" stories, focusing primarily
on Manafort. Bad publicity from the planted stories would later
pressure Trump to dump Manafort as his campaign manager.

That same week, Simpson worked with ABC News correspondent Brian Ross
on a since-debunked story framing Trump supporter Sergei Millian as a
Russian spy. Simpson also told Ross that Trump was involved in shady
business deals in Moscow. Simpson set up Ross' interview with Millian
through ABC producer Matthew Mosk, an old Simpson friend.

Then in September 2016, ABC’s "Good Morning America,” which is
co-hosted by Stephanopoulos, aired parts of the Millian report. Later
that day, Hillary Clinton tweeted out a campaign video incorporating
heavily edited quotes from Millian and suggesting they were more
evidence Trump was “an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.”
Above the video she posted on Sept. 22, Clinton personally tweeted:
“The man who could be your next president may be deeply indebted to
another country. Do you trust him to run ours?"

In effect, Clinton broadcast to her millions of followers a story her
campaign had helped manufacture through a paid contractor.
Igor Danchenko: Clinton amplified his dossier falsehood about Sergei
Millian as a key source.

Durham’s ongoing investigation has found that core parts of the
dossier were fabricated and falsely attributed to Millian as their
source, including the foundational claim of a “well-developed
conspiracy of cooperation” between Russia and Trump. Durham reported
that Steele’s main collector of information – onetime Brookings
Institution analyst Igor Danchenko – never even spoke with Millian, as
he had claimed, but simply made up the source of the most explosive
information in the dossier.

Durham recently indicted Danchenko for lying to the FBI about Millian.

The day after Clinton’s false tweet about Millian and Trump, her
campaign released a statement by senior national spokesman Glen Caplin
touting a “new bombshell report” by Yahoo News that revealed the FBI
was investigating "Trump’s foreign policy adviser" for suspected links
to the Kremlin.

"It's chilling to learn that U.S. intelligence officials are
conducting a probe into suspected meetings between Trump's foreign
policy adviser Carter Page and members of Putin's inner circle while
in Moscow,” according to the statement, which attached the Sept. 23,
2016, Yahoo article in full and noted the report came on the heels of
ABC’s story about Millian.

"Just one day after we learned about Trump's hundreds of millions of
dollars in undisclosed Russian business interests,” Caplin’s statement
continued, "this report suggests Page met with a sanctioned top
Russian official to discuss the possibility of ending U.S. sanctions
against Russia under a Trump presidency – an action that could
directly enrich both Trump and Page while undermining American
interests.”

"We've never seen anything like this in American politics,” the
Clinton campaign statement added with alarm. "Every day seems to cast
new doubts on what's truly driving Donald Trump's decision-making."

But the Yahoo story about Page’s nefarious Kremlin meetings was
apocryphal. Its main source was Steele, whose identity was hidden in
the story. Yahoo reporter Michael Isikoff had interviewed Steele in a
room at a Washington inn booked by Simpson. The FBI nonetheless cited
the article to support its applications to a secret federal court for
authority to spy on Page, claiming it corroborated the dossier’s
allegations, even though they were one and the same.

Here again, Clinton's team hyped as a “bombshell” Trump-Russia
revelation a media report that it helped craft from opposition
research it commissioned and from FBI interest it generated. All of
this was hidden from voters.
The Clinton campaign planted the allegation of a “secret hotline” to
Putin through a Russia-based bank.

It was also in September that then-Clinton campaign attorney Michael
Sussmann planted at FBI headquarters the manufactured allegation that
Trump had set up a “secret hotline” to Putin through Russia-based Alfa
Bank. Steele had filed a campaign report about the bank's ties to
Putin around the same time.

Durham last year indicted Sussmann for lying to the FBI, detailing how
the lawyer and Simpson had collaborated with a team of anti-Trump,
pro-Clinton computer researchers to draft a technical report for the
FBI and media allegedly connecting Trump to Alfa Bank through email
servers. Simpson, in turn, worked with Slate reporter Franklin Foer to
craft a story propagating the allegation, even reviewing his piece in
advance of publication.

Foer’s story broke on Oct. 31, 2016. That same day, Sullivan hyped the
story on Twitter, claiming in a written campaign statement that Trump
and the Russians were operating a “secret hotline” through Alfa Bank
and speculating “federal authorities” would be investigating “this
direct connection between Trump and Russia.” He portrayed the
discovery as the work of independent experts — “computer scientists” —
without disclosing their connections to the campaign.

“This could be the most direct link yet between Donald Trump and
Moscow,” Sullivan proclaimed.
'October Surprise' That Wasn't

Clinton teed up that statement in an Oct. 31 tweet of her own, which
quickly went viral. She warned voters: “Computer scientists have
apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to
a Russian-based bank."

Also that day, Clinton tweeted, “It’s time for Trump to answer serious
questions about his ties to Russia,” while attaching a meme that read:
“Donald Trump has a secret server. It was set up to communicate
privately with a Putin-tied Russian bank called Alfa Bank.”
October 31, 2016

At the same time that Simpson was working Slate, he leaked to a friend
at the New York Times that the FBI had evidence of the Trump-Alfa
link, providing the Times and other friendly media outlets a serious
news hook to publish the unfounded rumors on the eve of the November
election.

The Alfa smear was meant as an “October surprise” that would rock the
Trump campaign and take media focus off the probe of Clinton's emails,
which then-FBI Director James Comey had been pressured by a New York
agent to revive in the final week of the campaign. Clinton’s team had
even "prepared a video promoting the Trump-Alfa Bank server connection
and was poised to make an all-out push through social media,”
according to Isikoff and David Corn in their book, “Russian Roulette.”
But “that plan was canned,” they wrote because the Oct. 31 Times story
noted that the FBI had not been able to corroborate the claims of a
cyber-link. The skepticism cooled the media firestorm the campaign had
hoped for.

“We had been waiting for the Alfa Bank story to come out,” Clinton
Campaign Chairman John Podesta told Isikoff and Corn. “Then — boom! —
it gets smacked down.”

In congressional testimony, Podesta has largely claimed ignorance
about the campaign’s opposition-research efforts.
Marc Elias: A focus of Durham, he briefed Clinton campaign leaders
about the Alfa smear, emails show.

In Durham’s indictment of Sussmann for lying to the FBI about his work
for the Clinton campaign while feeding them the Alfa Bank story,
prosecutors revealed that Sussmann’s partner Marc Elias kept Clinton
campaign bigwigs in the loop about the project to manufacture a
Trump-Russian bank conspiracy, which the FBI months later completely
debunked. Emails obtained by Durham’s investigators show the lawyer
had briefed top Clinton campaign officials Sullivan, Palmieri and Mook
about the Alfa smear in September 2016. Elias, the campaign’s general
counsel, engaged with “individuals acting on behalf of the Clinton
campaign to share information about the Russian bank data,” the
indictment stated.

Sullivan, who now serves as President Biden’s national security
adviser, maintained in December 2017 congressional testimony he didn’t
even know that the politically prominent Elias worked for Perkins
Coie, a well-known Democratic law firm representing the Clinton
campaign. Major media stories from 2016, however, routinely identified
Elias as “general counsel for the Clinton campaign” and a “partner at
Perkins Coie.”

“To be honest with you, Marc wears a tremendous number of hats, so I
wasn’t sure who he was representing,” Sullivan testified. “I sort of
thought he was, you know, just talking to us as, you know, a fellow
traveler in this – in this campaign effort.”

Veteran FBI investigators doubt Sullivan or his boss were in the dark
about the campaign-funded work of Elias, Sussmann, Simpson or Steele
and other campaign operations designed to make Trump look compromised
by a foreign adversary.

“Durham is telling us that this Alfa Bank hoax – and probably related
matters – were Clinton campaign ops at the very highest level,” former
FBI counterintelligence agent and lawyer Mark Wauck noted. “How
credible is it to suppose that Hillary herself wasn’t in the know?”

Durham’s investigators have been questioning Elias under subpoena. A
new court filing in the Sussmann case reveals that Elias has given
testimony before a criminal grand jury impaneled by Durham in
Washington, D.C.

Grand jury testimony is sealed and it’s not known what Elias told
prosecutors. But In 2017, he testified in a closed-door session of
Congress that Mook was his campaign contact for opposition-research
projects, including the dossier. “I consulted with Robby Mook, who was
campaign manager,” he said, noting that Mook handled budget matters
and signed off on opposition-research expenses billed by Perkins Coie,
which totaled more than $1.2 million.

While Mook has not been questioned under oath on the Hill, he told
CNN: “I didn’t know that we were paying the contractor that created
that document.”

“What I’ve known [about the dossier] is what I’ve read in the press,”
he claimed. Mook said he doesn’t recall seeing the dossier memos
during the campaign. “I just can’t attribute to what piece of
information, you know, came to us at one time or where it came from,
frankly. You know, as campaign manager, there’s a lot going on.”

Mook added that he wasn’t sure who was gathering the information for
the dossier: “I don’t know the answer to that. … I wish we paid more
attention to it on the campaign."
Elias Met Simpson Often

In his testimony, Elias said he met with Simpson and other Fusion GPS
researchers at least 20 times and Steele at least once during the
campaign. He said he would receive written reports from them and
direct them to find certain information. He, in turn, would travel
each week to Clinton campaign headquarters in Brooklyn, N.Y., to
report what he had learned about Trump and Russia.

However, Elias insisted he left his interlocutors in the dark about
the sources of that information, for which the campaign was paying him
in excess of $1 million. He also insisted he didn’t tell his campaign
contacts about his meetings with Steele or Simpson, despite billing
the campaign for such consultations, and never shared the dossier
reports or other materials they generated with those Clinton
officials. Elias even maintained that he hired Fusion GPS on his own
without consulting with Mook or the campaign. “I was the gatekeeper,”
he said, between the research contractors and the campaign.

According to "Russian Roulette," however, Elias shared the findings of
Steele’s memos with at least Mook. "Elias would at times brief Mook on
their contents,” Isikoff and Corn wrote.

Podesta has testified that he, too, had no idea Steele and Fusion GPS
were on the campaign’s payroll and didn’t read the dossier until
BuzzFeed posted it online after the election.

Under oath, Podesta denied speaking with Clinton about the dossier
even after the election: “I don’t know that I’ve ever discussed the
dossier with Mrs. Clinton.” He also swore Clinton never talked to him
about opposition research, in general, or who the campaign might hire
to conduct it.

The campaign’s in-house opposition research team, led by chief
researcher Christina Reynolds, was under the direction of Palmieri,
the head of communications who is close to Clinton.

Former Bill Clinton political strategist Doug Schoen said it stretches
credulity to suggest that top officials in the Clinton camp, including
the candidate herself, weren’t fully aware of the research their
campaign attorney was billing them for.

“With more than 380 payments from the Clinton campaign and the DNC
being made to Perkins Coie, it is seemingly impossible that the
candidate herself would not have direct knowledge of the purpose of
those payments or any earmarks being made, especially those for Fusion
GPS,” Schoen said.

Quoting unnamed Clinton surrogates, both the New York Times and CNN
have reported that the candidate was unaware of the dossier prior to
BuzzFeed publishing it two months after the 2016 election. Former
Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon told CNN in a separate
interview she may not have been totally out of the loop, however. “She
may have known [about the dossier and its financing before the
election],” he said, "but the degree of exactly what she knew is
beyond my knowledge."

A senior congressional investigator who insisted on anonymity said the
denials are hard to believe and described them as an effort to
insulate Clinton from a major undertaking of her campaign that has
proved scandalous, if not criminal.  “The biggest lie is Hillary
didn’t know about any of this oppo stuff even though she tweeted about
it!” he said.
Walled off from her campaign's oppo research? She seemed to cite
dossier falsehoods in the debates.

Clinton also appeared to cite dossier disinformation in the
presidential debates, casting further doubt on claims she was walled
off from such opposition research. In the final debate, for example,
Clinton accused Trump of being Putin’s “puppet” and accepting his
“help” in sabotaging her campaign, drawing conclusions similar to ones
made in the dossier. She claimed Trump did what the dossier falsely
claimed he did — conspiring with the Russian government to hack her
campaign and steal emails — though she allegedly never read Steele’s
reports.

“You encouraged espionage against our people,” Clinton said on Oct. 19, 2016.
Durham Inching Closer

With each new indictment and court filing, Clinton inches closer to
the center of the special prosecutor’s investigation, now in its third
year.

Durham indicated in a recently filed court document that he is
actively investigating the Clinton campaign and seeks to question its
top officials. His office declined to say whether it intended to
question Clinton herself.

Durham's recent indictments of Sussmann and subcontractor Danchenko
implicate key campaign figures and make clear that the Clinton
campaign's influence on the contents of the dossier was much deeper
than previously known.

For instance, Durham found that a longtime Clinton insider and
campaign adviser — Charles Dolan — was a key source for the dossier
and most likely originated the false “pee tape” rumor involving Trump
and Moscow prostitutes. It seems likely that he acted as an
intermediary between the campaign and Steele’s primary sub-source,
Danchenko, with whom he communicated. In 2016, Dolan “actively
campaigned and participated in calls and events as a volunteer on
behalf of Hillary Clinton,” according to the Danchenko indictment.

In other words, the Clinton campaign not only funded the Russia dirt
on Trump but provided some of the actual sourcing for it. Campaign
operatives, in turn, laundered the dirt through the FBI and into the
mainstream media to damage Trump.

In a related filing in the Danchenko case, Durham noted that his
“areas of inquiry” include investigating “the extent to which the
Clinton campaign and/or its representatives directed, solicited or
controlled the defendant’s [Danchenko’s] activities” surrounding the
dossier. He also indicated prosecutors want to find out whether the
campaign knew Danchenko and Steele were funneling false information to
the FBI, and intend to summon “multiple former employees of the
campaign" as trial or grand jury witnesses.

In the Sussmann case, Durham’s agents have already questioned one
“former employee of the Clinton campaign” and subpoenaed Clinton
campaign records, according to a new document filed by Durham earlier
this week.

Sources familiar with his probe say Durham ultimately is investigating
the Clinton campaign for, among other things, alleged conspiracy to
defraud the FBI, the Justice Department and the Pentagon’s research
arm, which provided funding and sensitive Internet logs to Clinton
operatives who helped fabricate the Alfa Bank hoax.

Danchenko and the Clinton campaign, including Podesta and other
officials, happen to share the same D.C. law firm – Schertler &
Onorato – which gives the appearance that the Clinton campaign and the
main source of the dossier have entered into a joint defense. Durham
warned the court that the arrangement poses a conflict of interest.

Podesta’s attorney, Bob Trout, did not respond to requests for
comment. Trout also represents other ex-campaign officials who
recently retained him in matters before Durham.

Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, who practices at the Washington-based
firm Williams & Connolly, did not reply to requests for comment.

J.D. Gordon, who held a position roughly equivalent to Sullivan’s on
the 2016 Trump campaign, said in an interview that he hopes Durham
adds Sullivan and other Clinton aides to his criminal investigation,
“if he hasn’t already.”

He suspects Sullivan was “the Russiagate hoax mastermind” and hopes
that he and other members of Clinton’s 2016 team — as well as the
candidate herself — are subpoenaed for testimony and document
production just as he and other Trump advisers were targeted by
Special Counsel Robert Mueller, based almost entirely on rumors
started by the Clinton machine. He called the Clinton-funded smears
“depraved” and “nationally destabilizing."

"In addition to outright surveillance via the fraudulent FISA warrant
against Carter Page, many of us were hit with federal and
congressional subpoenas, subjected to grueling Senate and House
investigations, special counsel interrogations and resulting harsh
media spotlight,” he said. "I appeared before the Senate Intelligence
Committee, Senate Judiciary Committee, House Intelligence Committee
and produced requested documents to the House Judiciary Committee.
Three times I was summoned before the special counsel, the first of
which in August 2017 was apparently leaked to the Washington Post.”

Gordon is not alone in his desire to see Clinton held to account.
Among those Americans aware of the Durham probe, fully 60% think the
special counsel should question Clinton about her role in the dossier
and other campaign foul play, according to a recent national poll by
TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics. Broken down by
political affiliation, 80% of Republicans, 44% of Democrats and 74% of
independent voters agree that Clinton should be interviewed by
investigators.

What happened more than five years ago may have renewed relevance:
Some Democratic strategists speculate that Clinton is eyeing another
run at the White House. As Vice President Kamala Harris’ popularity
wanes and her shot at becoming the first female president slips, they
say Clinton may see an opening.

“I will never be out of the game of politics,” Clinton told ABC's
“Good Morning America” in October.