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Moments before Wednesday night’s MSNBC/NBC News commander in chief forum, MSNBC host/NBC News Clinton correspondent Andrea Mitchell informed viewers on Hardball that such questions about Hillary Clinton’s ability to serve in that top job leading the military in both a competent and tough fashion shouldn’t be given the light of the day because “[s]he proved her commander in chief bona fides” over her career.
Mitchell was speaking to Matthews, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd, and Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson when she ruled that the questions heading into the hour-long forum would be “who do you trust” and “who has the temperament” for the job but for her friend Hillary, she spun that she’s ready.