Glenn Thrush of Politico, a website located many floors below the Free Beacon in Arlington, Va., has just published an interview with Hillary Clinton. Clinton and Thrush’s conversation is worth listening to in full, but it’s nearly an hour long. For those of you with work to do today, here are the eight most interesting things I learned from it.
1. Unlike Glenn Thrush, Hillary is really, really good at sleeping on planes…
GLENN THRUSH: The one thing I will tell you I remember very distinctly about 2007 and 2008 was your airplane--were the airplane trips I took with you. I was not a happy flier, and nothing ever seemed to bother you. I mean, we were in some really hairy situations and you would sleep your way through it.
SEC. CLINTON: Right. That is the answer to everything. When you're facing a difficult issue that you absolutely can do nothing about--in this case--
GLENN THRUSH: Right.
SEC. CLINTON: --I can't fly the plane; I can't change the weather--falling asleep, you'll either wake up and things will be fine or you won't.
[Laughter.]
2. … Even though they make ‘no sense’ to her
SEC. CLINTON: Well, but fly on an airplane, the whole thing makes no sense to me. Does it make sense to you?
GLENN THRUSH: No. Not at all.
SEC. CLINTON: I mean, how it works, how the whole, you know, science of it, you know, aerodynamics, you know, actually manages to keep us afloat. I'm constantly amazed.
3. She has a thing for high school bands
GLENN THRUSH: But, really, but you're not joking. That is a philosophy about--
SEC. CLINTON: Right.
GLENN THRUSH: --just sort of putting that out of your mind and going--
SEC. CLINTON: I find that very true for a lot of life--I really do--because--well, I'll give you just an example--
GLENN THRUSH: Yeah. Yeah.
SEC. CLINTON: --that just happened right now. I was thanking the band. I was taking a picture of the high school band--
GLENN THRUSH: Yeah.
SEC. CLINTON: --that played with us, and I was shaking their hands, and there was one young man whose head was just down. He looked so depressed, and I thought, "Wow, you know, I guess he doesn't want to shake my hand." Then he kind of lifted his head, and his teacher was standing there, and the teacher said, "Don't worry about it. It wasn't that big a mistake." And I could tell this kid was devastated.
GLENN THRUSH: Right.
SEC. CLINTON: I'm sure it was a mistake that nobody other than the music teacher or maybe some of the other kids would have noticed. So I looked at him and I said, "Don't worry about things, that you can do better next time. Don't worry about stuff you can't control," because it's been my observation that so many people worry about things that they are either ruminating over the past--
GLENN THRUSH: Mm-hmm.
4. She gives people a ‘lot of information’
GLENN THRUSH: You give a lot of information--
SEC. CLINTON: Right.
GLENN THRUSH: --in those speeches.
SEC. CLINTON: Right.
GLENN THRUSH: Your opponent and your potential opponent are people who do not give--
SEC. CLINTON: Right.
GLENN THRUSH: --an enormous amount of granular detail.
SEC. CLINTON: Right.
GLENN THRUSH: Have you ever thought about just simplifying it, or do you think this is the path that is an important one to take?
SEC. CLINTON: It's the path that I prefer.
GLENN THRUSH: Right.
5. She thinks ‘chippy’ is a great word
GLENN THRUSH: Do you think things are getting a little bit too chippy on [Bernie Sanders’s] side?
SEC. CLINTON: "Chippy" is a great word. I haven't heard that word--
GLENN THRUSH: Hockey.
SEC. CLINTON: --in a long time.
GLENN THRUSH: [Laughs]
SEC. CLINTON: I think they're getting more negative.
GLENN THRUSH: Yeah.
6. She doesn’t know what Bernie Sanders does with his pillow at night
GLENN THRUSH: When he puts his head on a pillow at night, do you think he goes to sleep a Democrat?
SEC. CLINTON: [Laughs] Well, I can't answer that, Glenn, because he's a relatively new Democrat, and, in fact, I'm not even sure he is one. He's running as one. So I don't know quite how to characterize him. I'll leave that to him. But I know there's a big difference between Democrats and Republicans, and I know that Senator Sanders spends a lot of time attacking my husband, attacking President Obama, you know, calling President Obama weak and disappointing, and actually making a move in 2012 to recruit somebody to run a primary against him. I rarely hear him say anything negative about George W. Bush, who I think wrecked our economy, just not to put too fine a point on it.
GLENN THRUSH: Right.
7. She loved being a senator
SEC. CLINTON: [Laughs]
GLENN THRUSH: --and I was going to call you Sen. Clinton--
SEC. CLINTON: That's good. I loved being a senator.
GLENN THRUSH: It's been a while. I guess right now you'll be honorary senator because you're here in New York.
8. She does not allow her staff to murder people
GLENN THRUSH: Two more questions before your people kill me.
SEC. CLINTON: [Laughs] No killing permitted.