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Hillary Clinton - yes, Hillary Clinton - answers MNers' questions: come and watch!

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KateMumsnet · 04/07/2014 20:36

We put Mumsnetters' questions to Former Secretary of State (and, if rumours are to be believed, potentially the first female President of the USA) Hillary Clinton. See what she has to say on abortion rights, learning to brush off misogynist criticism, becoming a grandmother - and how she squares her position as a feminist icon with 'standing by her man'.

Have a look, and tell us what you think on the thread. And don't forget to have a look at Hillary's special message for Mumsnetters, . RebeccaMumsnet is, understandably, thrilled Grin.

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SarahMumsnet · 05/07/2014 09:39

Morning folks,

We ended up with more time with Hillary than we expected, so got to ask more than the anticipated 8 questions; we chose the extras by looking at the next most-voted-for on the thread (not visible on the list on the page because that cuts off at 10). In the top 10, there were two on gun control, so we only asked her one of those, and she answered the Veep question that was number 9 (she doesn't watch it!) but her answer was so brief ("no") that it felt very odd in the video, and we dropped it. I wasn't actually there, yesterday, so it's possible her team did veto some of the others (will wait for someone who was to confirm), but I know (because I was in charge of collating all the questions and sending them over yesterday morning!) that Justine went armed with your top 15 questions as determined by votes, with the exception of the one duplication.

and Tantarose thanks v much re Supreme - will get sorted! Smile

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SarahMumsnet · 05/07/2014 10:06

Hey Juneau - sincere apologies. It seemed to us that they were covering the same area, and given that time was limited we felt we ought to make sure we covered as wide a breadth of questions as we could. Of the extra questions we asked, they were just the next ones down the list in terms of number of votes. Again, sorry - we thought people would want to hear from her on as many issues as possible.

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SarahMumsnet · 05/07/2014 11:49

The Grandmother question came from Gransnet - here's their thread.

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KateMumsnet · 07/07/2014 09:25

Hello everyone, and very sorry it's taken so long to get back to you.

Just to clarify, we did in fact ask MostWicked's questions on healthcare reform, and Elastamum's one on life sentences for children. But the finished video felt rather overlong and unwieldy, unfortunately - so after some umm-ing and ahh-ing we made an editorial decision to drop Hillary's answers to those questions. We will, though, be putting individual videos of those sections of the interview up on the thread later today - along with another on 'Veep' which was also dropped for time - so you'll be able to see her responses on those issues.

But sincere apologies to all - we should have been clearer at the beginning that we wouldn't necessarily be able to include all Hillary's responses in the main cut.

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KateMumsnet · 07/07/2014 09:34

Yikes so sorry Elastamum - I transposed the questions.

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VikkiMumsnet · 07/07/2014 16:00

Hi everyone, just picking up from KateMumsnet and SarahMumsnet, here are the other questions that were put to Hillary on Friday.

Starting with Hillary on healthcare...

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VikkiMumsnet · 07/07/2014 16:01

Next, Hillary on life sentences for children...

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VikkiMumsnet · 07/07/2014 16:02

And lastly, on Veep...

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JustineMumsnet · 15/07/2014 18:15

Got a lovely thank you letter today from Hillary on fabulous headed paper [shallow]. Thought I'd share...

Hillary Clinton - yes, Hillary Clinton - answers MNers' questions: come and watch!
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JustineMumsnet · 16/07/2014 13:15

Yes, it rather made my day Grin.

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