Wolf Blitzer Lets Hillary Dodge Question on Viewing PP Videos, Asks Only Twice about E-Mails

Curtis Houck | September 17, 2015
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In her first live interview of the 2016 campaign via satellite, Hillary Clinton spoke with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer during The Situation Room and received a free pass from Blitzer in allowing her to dodge a question about whether she’s viewed the horrifying Planned Parenthood videos and asked only two questions in a 14-and-a-half-minute interview about her e-mail scandal.

Blitzer first remarked to Clinton at the onset that she “certainly did take a lot of fire from Republicans at the CNN debate last night,” before raising the first of two questions from the right with one that Carly Fiorina rhetorically asked of Clinton Wednesday night: “[W]hat would you say was your number one accomplishment as secretary of state?”