April 4, 2016

'Our eyes connected and I thought "Wow"': Hillary Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin gushes about presidential hopeful and describes the moment they first met

â—™ Huma Abedin spoke about her boss Hillary Clinton and the moment the two first met in a recent interview
â—™ 'She walked by and she shook my hand and our eyes connected and I just remember having this moment where I thought; "Wow,"' said Abedin
â—™ The top Clinton aide also revealed that she is terrified about her boss' emails which are being released by the State Department
â—™ The FBI is investigating Clinton's use of a private email address and server while serving as Secretary of State
â—™ Abedin said she has not read any of the emails and would be 'mortified' if she knew what was in them having been on most of the exchanges
â—™ She also said of Clinton; 'I think that if my boss quit tomorrow, she will go down as one of the greatest American women in the history of the world'

By Chris Spargo
DailyMail.co.uk

Huma Abedin spoke about meeting Hillary Clinton for the first time in a new interview, where she also revealed her fears over the State Department's release of the Democratic front-runner's emails from her time as Secretary of State.

'You know these things that happen in your life that just stick? She walked by and she shook my hand and our eyes connected and I just remember having this moment where I thought; "Wow, this is amazing,"' said Abedin.

'And it just inspired me. You know, I still remember the look on her face. And it’s funny, and she would probably be so annoyed that I say this, but I remember thinking; "Oh my God, she’s so beautiful and she’s so little!"'

Clinton's top aide said on the Call Your Girlfriend podcast that she had met Clinton once before this, but just as she took a group photo with the new White House interns.

Abedin also said she was terrified about the release of her boss' emails, especially since she is on many of the exchanges that have now been made public.

'It’s something I can’t really think about, but I can’t even imagine what’s in those emails,' said Abedin.

'I would probably be mortified. I have no idea. I haven’t read any of them.'

She then added; 'I have a policy. I never read anything about myself. I could count on one hand how many actual interviews I've done. I'll never read them. I just don't want to know.

'If it's about me personally, I honestly just ignore it.'

One of those exchanges between the two was about Clinton's inability to get a fax machine to work, and Abedin's repeated attempts to get her to hang up a phone so they could reestablish a connection to send her a document.

When asked about those emails, Abedin said; 'I think what you read in the email is a little bit of frustration that it wasn’t working and my frustration that she couldn’t figure it out, or whatever it was, but the backstory here is that we very often ... it wasn’t unusual that when secure faxes were coming through that we had some challenges with them coming through.'

The FBI continues to investigate the emails Clinton received on a private email server and address, while tens of thousands of her exchanges have been released so far by the State Department.

Abedin then took some time to gush about Clinton and how she will be remembered in the future.

'I think that if my boss quit tomorrow, she will go down as one of the greatest American women in the history of the world,' said Abedin.

“We’re in the midst of campaigning in New York right now, and we’ve been looking through her record and the things that she did in the Senate and everyone she helped from 9/11 and beyond.

'I know she’s committed to making people’s lives better. I wish the world could see the Hillary Clinton that I see every day because it’s ... because she has done great things for this country and I’m really confident that she can do great things for - on behalf of this country when she’s our president and I’m really looking forward to it.'

She was then asked about Clinton's very vocal support of reproductive rights during this primary.

'Well I think that, you know, it’s something that she’s spoken out about a lot in this campaign and I think particularly since the other side, you know, our friends on the Republican side have suggested some pretty scary policies and especially when we have to deal with the issues of Planned Parenthoods potentially being closed down and what the Republicans did in Congress,' said Abedin.

'I mean this notion that all women should feel like they’re able to make their own decisions, not have politicians tell them what to do or how to do it but be able to give all women access to affordable, good-quality healthcare. And that’s including your reproductive health which is why I think the threat of the Planned Parenthood shutdowns were so – you know, were so scary.'

Abedin then got very personal, revealing; 'And so, you know, I even remember recently I had a little bit of a scare myself and I thought all right, I want to check myself out.

'And I’m fine. And any woman in this country should be able to go in whether it’s a cancer screening or whatever it is and say – feel like they can go and find that out and not have to worry about the cost or can I get access or how that is.

'And so that’s one of the things that I know she will continue to fight for and continue to speak out about.

Abedin was asked at one point what Bill Clinton's role would be in the White House if his wife was elected president.

'I feel ... just that question makes me nervous,' said Abedin, acknowledging that Clinton is still battling Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary.

'But I think it’s fair to say that as one of the most successful Democratic presidents in the history of this country that there is nothing President Clinton can’t do. He’s one of my great inspirations for getting into public service.'

She later added; 'And so I don’t think there’s anything in the world that he can’t do.'

Abedin then joked; 'I have a feeling, though, that he will not be picking the china out and he will not be picking out the flowers for any of the events.'

It was not just her boss that Abedin praised either, also taking some time to acknowledge how grateful she was when Senator John McCain defended her on the Senate floor when Republicans in Congress began to claim she had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood during Clinton's time as Secretary of State.

'You know, I couldn’t even wrap my head around the charges. And I think what Senator McCain did, and for which I will forever be grateful, and I have to say that I felt exactly the same way about our president, President Obama, who then there was an aid reception at the White House, and he also stood up for the Muslim-Americans, including myself, who had been sort of labeled in a way that was so upsetting,' said Abedin.

'And I think what Senator McCain did shows what’s great about our country which is you have people who stand up and say what they believe even if it’s not the most politically sort of popular thing to do.'

She said she was particularly grateful at that time because people began to attack her family, who had not chosen a life in the public eye.

'But I’m hoping that that’s part of the past, you know?' said Abedin.

'And me and other Muslim- Americans don’t have to move forward in this country having to worry about things like that which again is something that really motivates me to work for this particular Democrat because I think the dialogue on the other side has become increasingly scary.'

Abedin first began working for Clinton while she was still in college at George Washington University, being assigned to the then first lady after getting a White House internship.

She then began to work with Clinton's personal aide and took over the position when Clinton began her successful 2000 run for the US Senate in the state of New York.

Abedin was just 24 years old at the time, and has been in that same position ever since, now also serving as Clinton's vice chairwoman in her current campaign for president.

She married New York Congressman Anthony Weiner in July 2010 in a ceremony that was officiated by Bill Clinton and covered in the pages of Vogue, getting pregnant with the couple's first child just a few months later.

The couple was not even a year into their marriage when news broke that Weiner had been sexting women online after he tweeted out a photo of his erect penis that he had meant to privately send a woman on the social media site.

He resigned from Congress soon after, and in December Abedin gave birth to a son, Jordan Zain Weiner.

In 2013, Weiner decided to run for mayor of New York City and also agreed to be filmed for a documentary about his return to politics.

He announced he would run in late May, but just two months later came allegations that he had continued to sext in the years after he resigned from Congress using the name Carlos Danger.

A 22-year-old named Sydney Leathers said she had been sharing messages and explicit photos with Weiner as recently as April of that year, giving interviews to multiple news outlets and even showing up at the event he hosted after losing in the mayoral primary that September.

Weiner, 51, has held various jobs since, and in 2015 appeared in the television movie Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!.

Abedin spoke about their relationship during the interview, saying; 'You know, I think that a marriage really only works in any situation, whether you’re in politics or not, if one partner is fully supportive of the other.

'I think it’s a little – it’s often a little more challenging when you’re in politics because your private life, and I think everybody craves their own privacy, and so I think your private life is displayed to the world in a way that you otherwise wouldn’t have to deal with if one spouse is a private person and the other person’s in politics as was the case certainly in my marriage.

'But I think it works if you fully support each other.'

She then noted that her husband has taken over much of the parenting of their son as she is away from home.

'I’m on the road a lot on the campaign. As I mentioned earlier I have a four-year- old son and I don’t think I could do this if I didn’t have the support of a spouse who is willing to basically be a stay-at- home dad as much as he possibly can so I’m able to be on the road,' said Abedin.

'I miss my son but I don’t worry about him because I know between this little village we’ve created between Anthony and my in-laws and my mom and our families and this wonderful woman who we have helping us I can go out and be the best professional woman that I can be because I have that support.'

She is not however planning on a run for office, saying; 'I feel like I’ve worked for a politician for a very long time. I’ve been married to a politician. I see what they go through. I’m not quite sure that I could ... I’m not quite sure that I could do that. But I have a lot of respect, a lot of respect for people who run for elected office.'

At the end of the interview Abedin also said that one of her favorite shows on television is the HBO comedy Veep, noting that it is an incredibly accurate depiction of politics in America.

'I identify with the whole show because I think to me it’s the closest thing to what Washington is and it’s just sort of all the things that people don’t want to say they say on that show and it’s done in such a funny way,' said Abedin.

In that same segment of the interview she was also asked what a podcast hosted by herself and Clinton would focus on.

Abedin said it would likely be about their love of food, or possibly shoes.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3522657/Our-eyes-connected-thought-Wow-Hillary-Clinton-s-aide-Huma-Abedin-gushes-presidential-hopeful-describes-moment-met.html

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