Clinton appeared on Meyers’ show, “Late Night with Seth Meyers” September 15 accompanied by her daughter Chelsea. The trio discussed a variety of topics, spanning from the recent overturn of Roe v. Wade to Clinton’s view on Trump’s investigations and Chelsea Clinton’s new children’s book, “Welcome To The Big Kids Club”.
Clinton referenced Trump supporters chanting “lock her up” during a recent rally in Pennsylvania when Trump called her “crooked Hillary Clinton” and claimed she set up a secret email server to hide the Clinton “pay-to-play schemes”. According to her interview with Meyers, Clinton won’t be exhibiting the same behavior.
“Let the investigation go forward and let’s find the facts,” she said. “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.”
Her words were met with cheers and applause from the audience. Clinton stressed she had zero classified documents when she used a personal email account while she was secretary of state under the Obama administration. Trump attacked Clinton several times on the topic of emails when the two faced off during the 2016 presidential election. After an investigation into the emails, Clinton was not charged. Clinton has previously said she wouldn’t jump to any conclusions about Trump’s investigations.
“You know, you can’t make this up,” Clinton told Meyers. “I mean the lies they told, the 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.”
Clinton said when she worked as secretary of state, if she had to sign or view top secret documents, a military officer would have the briefcase of top-secret documents handcuffed to his wrist.
“In order to show me something that was so secret, he literally had to have it tied to his hand, so it was locked,” Clinton said. “That’s what some of those folders on the outside say was the kind of information in it [in documents found at Mar-a-Lago].”
“I don’t care what political party you are but come on, cut the hypocrisy,” Clinton added. “This is a threat to our national security, that 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?”
In response to Clinton’s comments, Meyers jested with, “I think if he realizes he did something wrong, he’ll probably turn himself in and say ’lock me up’. If I know the man, he will take responsibility.”
Approximately 60,000 people have viewed the video on Meyers’ YouTube channel since it was uploaded early this morning.
