-Welcome back to "Late Night."
We're here with Hillary and Chelsea Clinton.
I don't want to miss the opportunity to ask you
about some things in the news.
With the Dobbs decision -- -Mm.
-I think in the days after, it seemed like -- maybe this is
the risk you put yourself at when you take a snapshot
of a very small period of time. It seemed like people were
saying that Democrats were caught very flat-footed,
like they weren't expecting it. But in the months since, it does
seem like Republicans are scrambling, especially ones
that have won primaries who are now trying to
back off their decision.
We have a lot of Republicans
saying it should be decided by the states.
We have Lindsey Graham then coming forward
and saying there should be a federal ban.
Do you feel like this is, you know, an opportunity, obviously
one that came at a great cost of this decision?
But, you know, as the midterms approach, how do you feel this
is going to, I don't know, move voters one way or the other?
-Well, I can only say based on what we've seen so far,
it seems to have encouraged a huge number
of women and young people to register to vote.
The numbers from across the country are...
[ Cheers and applause ] ...higher than I've seen
in a very long time.
We also have three elections --
a special election in New York,
the Kansas election on the issue of choice and abortion,
and then the congressional election Alaska.
And in each case, the pro-choice position won.
And I think that's a pretty good snapshot because obviously,
it went literally across the country.
So look, I think that the Republicans have been scrambling
only because they can't quite believe the blowback.
I mean, it's one thing to say for years,
"We're going to do this, we're going to do that,"
and people not take you seriously because who would have
ever thought that women's rights would be rolled back?
And that's -- -We did.
-Well, you and I did. But that's because we take
these people at their word because we know that they are
part of a relentless movement to literally turn the clock back
on not just women, but gay rights to enhance
all kinds of, you know, power for corporations and others,
and limit individual freedom.
So, if people take seriously what the court did,
what is happening in states, and what Lindsey Graham just did,
which was to really spill the beans --
"we're going to put in a national --"
-15-week abortion ban. -Yeah, a ban no matter what you
might do in your state, then they should turn out and vote
and vote for people who, you know, want to really protect
the right of people to make their own decisions,
whatever that decision might be.
That's what they're fighting for.
[ Cheers and applause ] -And I think, Seth, that to be
a woman right now is to be political because politicians
have decided that they know better what we should do
with our bodies than we do. -Mm-hmm.
-And I think that women and, thankfully, the men who believe
that women should have agency over our lives and ourselves
don't want to go back to a time where it's actually politicians
and not women and their doctors making choices.
-Mm-hmm. Absolutely. -Intimate choices.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-I'd be remiss if I didn't ask you about this.
I don't know if you've noticed in the news,
but there's been an issue about handling classified materials.
-Oh, I heard about that.
-We've had some fun here because we can't help but find
a certain level of hypocrisy from certain people,
including the fella who handled this classified material,
because back in the day -- -Oh, so long ago.
-Yeah, so long ago. I don't know if you've ever heard this.
[ Laughter ]
He thought you should be arrested.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
And, you know, let me start by saying
just for the history books,
do you know how many classified documents I had?
Zero. Zero.
[ Cheers and applause ]
You know, you can't make this up.
I mean, the lies they told, you know, heated rhetoric,
"lock her up," all that nonsense,
it was totally political, divorced from reality.
Now we have a serious problem because if you just read,
and I don't have any inside information,
what is being found,
nuclear information about an ally or an adversary.
Incredibly top secret -- the kind of stuff, Seth, that
when I was Secretary of State, when they talk about secret,
top secret, and then special compartmentalized
and all of that, sometimes -- usually it was a man.
Usually a military officer, would come into my office
and would have a handcuff that was attached to a suitcase
in order to show me something that was so secret,
he literally had to have it tied to his hand.
And so, it was locked. And then he would open it.
I would read it. I would sign that I'd read it.
And he would take it back.
That's what some of those folders on the outside say
was the kind of information in it.
And so, I don't care what political party you are,
but come on, cut the hypocrisy.
This is a threat to our national security.
Somebody would actually have in his country club storage room
his desk, his bedroom, top secret information.
And you have to ask yourself "Why?
What was he going to do with it? Who was he giving it to?"
-Or "What had he already done with it?"
-And so, let the investigation go forward
and let's, you know, find the facts.
Unlike those guys, I'm not saying "lock him up."
I'm saying let's just find the facts
and follow the evidence wherever it goes.
-Well, I think if he --
[ Cheers and applause ]
I think if he realizes he did something wrong,
he'll probably turn himself in and say "lock me up."
[ Laughter ] -Right.
-If I know the man. [ Laughter ]
-He'd want to take responsibility.
-He will take responsibility,
if there's one thing we know about the man.
Hey, Chelsea, this is very exciting.
Especially as someone with three kids of my own, you wrote a book
inspired by having three of yours.
-I did, I did. So, I wrote, "Welcome to the Big Kids Club"
because when I was pregnant with our third, Jasper,
Charlotte and Aidan had all these questions
like, you know -- Well, first they asked, "Is it going to be
a boy or girl?" And I said, "I don't actually know the answer
to that because we're going to be surprised."
But then they asked other questions like,
"When will the baby talk and walk?"
And "Will the baby poop, like, on day one?"
And "Why don't babies have teeth?"
Because it would really hurt if you're breastfeeding.
[ Laughter ]
That's actually not the answer, totally, but...
[ Laughter ] So I decided to write a book
because I thought, "Well, if we're having
these conversations, we're probably not the only family
having these conversations." And so, I wish I had had
this book when I was pregnant with Jasper,
and I was so thankful to Tania
for the extraordinarily beautiful illustrations.
And just so proud and excited it's out in the world.
-Yeah, yeah. -Well, it's very exciting.
Thank you both for making the time.
It's always a pleasure... -Thank you, Seth. Thank you.
-...to see you especially together.
Hillary and Chelsea Clinton everybody.
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