Hillary Clinton Speaks To Charlie Rose On Her Book, The Election Loss & Trump

I did. The first returns that came in were not what we thought from Florida and North Carolina, but we knew that those would be challenging states. We still felt good about everything we knew about the states to come to get to the electoral college majority.And it went downhill from there. It was a shocking, devastating evening. I write in great detail about it, because I wasn't prepared for that.

I did. And it was an effort in that speech to reach out to all the people who were against me, who my opponent had really stirred up against me as well because I thought it was important to be the President for everybody and that's what I was looking forward to doing.

I was still in shock, but I was devastated. So, once it became clear that the electoral college was going the other way, I had to do several things, which I did and described. I had to call Donald Trump, which was something that I can barely remember. I sort of reconstruct it because it was surreal to wish him well, hope that he would be a good President for everybody. He didn't think he was going to win, so he was also somewhat unprepared. I had to call President Obama and tell him how sorry I was because I knew that there would be a great effort under a new administration, the other party to try to undo much of what he had accomplished. And then I had to work on a speech. I really wasn't prepared to go out until I'd gotten all that done and by then it was 1:30-2 in the morning. So we had to find a place to deliver a concession speech which my stalwart band of advanced people did, and I showed up and delivered it the next morning.

I think if you look at it, we -- certainlyI, thought I was running a campaign that was about manythings, but it turned out in part because of coverage based on mymistake with the e-mails, because of intervention of other forces, it turned outto be one thing about me, about my shortcomings, about the attacks on me,about the -- in my view, phony attacks on me.

So, I thought I was speaking about and Ihave in the book analyses which proved that I was talking more about jobsthan anybody else. Exit poll showed if you cared about the economy, youvoted for me. All of that. But if you do a word cloud that was done, itwas all about e-mails for me. And I thought I was done with that in July andit came back, you know, 12 days before the election.

Yes.

I did.

Not cried so much. I really worked -- Ireally worked through over weeks, not days, over weeks,the disappointment I felt of letting people down. And my hope that Trumpwould turn out to be a better president than what his campaign suggested. Unfortunately, in may view, he has not.

AndI did various things. I spent a lot of time with family, friends, walked inthe woods. Just the other day at the book signing, I saw one of the youngwomen I met in the woods on one of those first jaunts. I spent a lot of time reflecting and it wasonly through that process that I thought to myself, you know, everybody isasking these questions and everybody has their own theories about whathappened. I want to know what happened.

I want to the best of my ability reallyexplore that, the role I played, my shortcomings, what the campaign could havedone differently, and then all of these outside forces. And I startedwriting the book which was very painful. I would literally write somethingand then go lie down for a while.

Well, all the above. But what was painfulwas sitting down and trying to sort through it. And to be ashonest as I could, which there is no point in, you know, trying to avoidwhat the facts were, but also to be clear that I was looking for evidence.

You know, there was a lot of anecdotalopinion going on and I didn`t find that particularly useful. And there was alot of debate about what caused it, what happened, and what we could havedone differently. I wanted to try to sort it out, get to the bottom of it,and then see how I felt about it.