Here’s How Hillary Clinton Responded to Fox Reporter’s Request for Her to Take Questions
Since announcing her presidential run a month ago, Hillary Clinton has rarely taken questions from the media. It’s gotten so bad that the New York Times has taken to asking hypothetical questions for when she does start answering; and the Washington Post has begun counting the minutes since her last media conversation.
Her reluctance to answer questions has been underscored by ongoing controversies surrounding foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation and her use of faulty intel from an ally with business interests in Libya, among others.
And then on Tuesday afternoon, while taking questions from supporters at a Cedar Falls, Iowa, campaign stop, this happened:
.@edhenry interrupts as Clinton takes Qs from attendees, asks if she'll talk to press. "I will put it on my list for due consideration."
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) May 19, 2015
.@edhenry asks HRC, mid event, if she will take a ?. HRC: "I might. I have to ponder it. I will put it on my list for due consideration."
— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) May 19, 2015
Clinton on talking to press: "I might, if I can learn something, I might say a few words and take a few questions from the press.
— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) May 19, 2015
The video below, via C-SPAN.org:
She did eventually talk to the media, answering five questions in an impromptu session. Watch that below, via Fox:
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