Hillary Clinton reveals in her new book she was angry with NBC’s Matt Lauer for questioning her about her use of a private email server during an interview last year, saying NBC treated the event like an “episode of ‘The Apprentice.'”
NBC hosted a “Commander-in-Chief Forum” aboard the USS Intrepid on Sept. 6, 2016, and the event was supposed to focus on the candidates’ stances on foreign policy. But during the interview, Lauer, the longtime host of the “Today” show, questioned Clinton on the email scandal.
“Now I was ticked off,” Clinton wrote in her forthcoming book “What Happened” according to reports. “NBC knew exactly what it was doing here. The network was treating this like an episode of ‘The Apprentice,’ in which Trump stars and ratings soar. Lauer had turned what should have been a serious discussion into a pointless ambush. What a waste of time.”
Clinton said she found the interview with Lauer “disappointing but predictable.”
“I can’t say I didn’t fantasize about shaking some sense into Lauer while I was out there,” she said.
Then-candidate Donald Trump took the stage after Clinton’s 30-minute interview, and the Democratic presidential nominee said Lauer gave her Republican opponent a “soft-pedal” interview.
“I was almost physically sick,” Clinton said.
Clinton’s book, “What Happened,” rehashes her loss to Trump in the 2016 election. The book will be released Tuesday, but several excerpts have been published.
