Bill Clinton said Friday that "even with" Matt Lauer's questioning of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump at the NBC Commander-in-Chief Forum that many liberals have called unfair, he felt his wife did fine.
Liberals and members of the press have sharply criticized Lauer, the longtime host of The Today Show, for what they said was too much focus on Clinton's email scandal and letting Trump off the hook on false statements. However, Trump was asked nearly twice as many questions during the event.
After Clinton's rally on Friday in Pittsburgh, he was asked by a reporter about the upcoming debates.
"You confident in the moderators after the other night?" the reporter asked.
Clinton laughed.
"Well, even with that, she did just fine," he said.
He said he was only bothered that there wasn't more discussion of Trump's trip to Mexico and accusations that what he said privately and publicly about the visit were inconsistent.
"If you're going to be president, you have to say the same thing at home and abroad," he said. "You can't go to some place and make it look like everything's going to be nice and come back and dump all over them, because it makes people all over the world, they don't trust America ... By all means, tell the same story at home and abroad. If you don't, it gets you in real trouble."