SOME OF YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING OKAY, WE SAW SEVERAL PORTIONS OF
MATT LAUER BUT NOT REALLY CHALLENGING HIM OR GIVING HIM
FOLLOW-UPS.
WHAT WAS IT LIKE WHEN HE WAS INTERVIEWING HILLARY
CLINTON.
WE HAVE ONE VIDEO THAT STOOD OUT.
LET'S TAKE A QUICK LOOK AT THAT.
YOU SAID YOU EXPECT TO THE IRANIANS TO CHEAT.
YOU THINK THEY WILL BUY TIME AND PERHAPS STAY A LONGER COURSE
TO BUILDING A NUCLEAR WEAPON.
IF THEY CHEAT, WILL YOU HAVE ANY COURSE OF ACTION OTHER THAN A
MILITARY COURSE OF ACTION?
WOULD YOU ENTER INTO NEGOTIATIONS, WOULD YOU GO
BACK TO ECONOMIC SANCTIONS KNOWING THEY CHEATED AND ARE
CLOSER TO A NUCLEAR WEAPON?
MATT, LET ME PUT THIS IN CONTEXT BECAUSE THIS IS ONE OF
THE MOST IMPORTANT STRATEGIC QUESTIONS WE FACE, WHEN I BECAME
SECRETARY OF STATE THE IRANIANS WERE ON A FAST TRACK TO
ACQUIRING THE MATERIAL NECESSARY TO GET A NUCLEAR WEAPON.
THAT
HAD HAPPENED TO THE PRIOR EIGHT YEARS.
THEY MASTERED THE NUCLEAR
FULL FUEL CYCLE, BUILD COVERT FACILITIES, STOCKED THEM WITH
CENTRIFUGES, AND WERE MOVING FORWARD.
WHAT WAS OUR DECISION?
OUR DECISION WAS TO TRY TO PUT TOGETHER AN INTERNATIONAL
COALITION THAT INCLUDED RUSSIA AND CHINA, TO EXERT THE KIND OF
PRESSURE THROUGH SANCTIONS THAT THE UNITED STATES ALONE COULD
NOT DO.
BUT IF THEY WERE GOING TO CHEAT ñ
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE.
I KNOW WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF TIME, I WILL TALK QUICKLY.
THAT WAS ONE EXAMPLE.
I DID NOTICE THAT SHE GIVES DETAILED
ANSWERS, UNLIKE TRUMP, SHE HAS DETAILED ANSWERS.
SHE HAS
ACTUALLY WORKED ON POLICY.
WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, SHE IS UNQUESTIONABLY SMARTER THAN
TRUMP, WAY MORE EXPERIENCED THAN TRUMP, WAY MORE NUANCED THAN
TRUMP.
EVERY TIME SHE TRIED TO GET INTO THE DETAILS OF HER
POLICY IDEAS OR THE DECISION SHE
MADE, MATT LAUER WOULD INTERRUPT HER.
I GET IT, YOU DON'T GET A
GOOD SOUND BITE WHEN YOU HAVE A LONG DRAWN OUT ANSWER.
BUT WE
ARE HERE TRYING TO LISTEN TO
WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY.
IF YOU ASK YOUR QUESTIONS, LET HER FINISH.
AND THE FRAMING ON THAT, YOU CAN BE KIND AND SAY IT WAS
TOUGH, OR IT WAS TOTALLY UNFAIR.
ASSUMING THAT IRAN CHEATS, IN
HIS HYPOTHETICAL, ARE YOU GOING TO GO TO WAR, OR LET THEM CHEAT?
IT'S LIKE ASKING WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO STOP BEATING YOUR WIFE?
THERE IS NO GOOD ANSWER TO THAT.
IT'S LIKE TRYING TO CATCH HER IN
AN UNANSWERABLE QUESTION.
FIRST I HAVE TO SET UP THE CONTEXT OF
WHY THE DEAL WAS GOOD IN THE
FIRST PLACE.
AS SHE IS DOING THAT, NO, I'M GOING TO INTERRUPT
HER.
AGAIN, IF HE WAS EVENHANDED AND SET UP SIMILAR QUESTIONS FOR
TRUNK, THEN YOU WOULD SAY AT LEAST IT WAS AN EVEN PLAYING
FIELD.
BUT IN THIS CASE
EVERYTHING WAS I GOT YOU HILLARY CLINTON.
WHEN SHE WAS IN THE
MIDDLE OF GIVING A SMART ANSWER, YOU INTERRUPTED HER BECAUSE YOU
ARE ANNOYED BY HER SMART ANSWER.
AND YET YOU DON'T INTERRUPT
TRUMP.
IF YOU HAVE SOMEONE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT YOU WANT AS MUCH
DETAIL AS POSSIBLE WHEN THEY ARE
ANSWERING THESE QUESTIONS.
BUT UNSURPRISINGLY ONE OF THE
CRITICISMS TOWARD HILLARY CLINTON'S PERFORMANCE LAST NIGHT
WAS THAT SHE WAS BOGGED DOWN BY TOO MANY DETAILS.
LET'S TAKE A
LISTEN TO SCARBOROUGH AND CHUCK TODD DISCUSSING HILLARY'S FLAWS.
LAST NIGHT NOBODY WAS A WINNER.
IT WAS MORE OF A DRAW.
THE WAY I LOOK AT IT, THE FINAL VERY SLOPPY PRESEASON GAME OF
THE YEAR BEFORE THE FIRST DEBATE STARTS THE
THEY BOTH NEED BETTER DEBATE PREP.
HERS IS NOT INFORMATIONAL.
HERS IS STYLISTIC.
HERS IS ALSO
FIGURING OUT HOW TO GIVE AN EMAIL ANSWER THAT IS CREDIBLE
AND SHORT.
SHE GETS BOGGED DOWN IN DETAIL.
I ACTUALLY DON'T THINK SHE GETS BOGGED DOWN IN DETAIL.
I
THINK WE WANT AS MUCH DETAIL AS
POSSIBLE FOR BOTH CANDIDATES.
I AGREE WITH SCARBOROUGH IN THAT
BOTH CANDIDATES DID POORLY LAST NIGHT.
DONALD TRUMP, BECAUSE
HE'S A MORON.
HILLARY CLINTON
BECAUSE SHE IS NOT BELIEVABLE.
THAT IS THE CORE OF BOTH OF THEIR PROBLEMS.
YOU ARE EXACTLY RIGHT.
SHE IS NOT TRUSTWORTHY.
WHEN SHE'S TALKING ABOUT HER DECISION
TO USE A PRIVATE EMAIL SERVER ONE OF THE BIGGEST OFFENSES WAS
THE EMAILS DIDN'T HAVE THE HEADER THAT INDICATED IT WAS
CLASSIFIED.
YOU SHOULD KNOW THROUGH THE CONTENT INCLUDED IN
THE EMAIL THAT IT IS PROBABLY
SENSITIVE AND YOU SHOULDN'T BE SENDING IT THROUGH A PRIVATE
EMAIL SERVER.
BUT THAT IS WHY YOU SHOULD USE A PRIVATE SERVER IN THE FIRST
PLACE.
NOW WE FIND OUT THAT YOU SHREDDED A LOT OF THE EMAILS
AFTER THE GOVERNMENT TOLD YOU
NOT TO.
THAT IS A BIG PROBLEM.
I GOT IT.
HERE'S THE THING,
HILLARY CLINTON, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO FAKE YOUR WAY THROUGH
THIS.
YOU THINK YOU ARE JUST GOING TO TALK AROUND
THE EMAILS.
OKAY WE SHOULDN'T OF DONE THAT BUT I DID BECAUSE I WANTED TO
PROTECT MY PRIVATE LIFE AND THESE REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN
HOUNDING ME.
AT LEAST IT IS HONEST AND YOU MOVE ON.
YOU
CAN'T MOVE ON IF YOU'RE GOING ñ I AM 1000% WITH YOU THAT ALMOST
ALL THE ISSUES ñ THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT JOB INTERVIEW, THE
MOST IMPORTANT JOB INTERVIEW IN
THE WORLD.
DON'T GIVE STYLISTIC POINTS TO TRUMP FOR SAYING I AM
GOING TO HAVE VERY, VERY GOOD PLANS.
I CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT
THOSE PLANS ARE, BUT HER PLANS ARE LIKE A BABY, AND MINE ARE
VERY, VERY TREMENDOUS.
STYLISTICALLY THAT IS A
DISASTER.
THIS GUY IS A LITTLE MORON.
HE SAYS THINGS THAT MAKE
NO SENSE AT ALL.
WE DON'T REWARD STYLE POINTS ON THAT.
IT'S LIKE
HE IS DOING A CANNONBALL IN THE
OLYMPIC DIVING COMPETITION.
CALL IT OUT, THE GUY IS A TOTAL IDIOT.