![]() ![]() But it's that kind of rooted in fact, rooted in the reality of diplomacy. Like is it OK if I take a military plane to Iran? Oh my God, he says. But when the character, the Secretary of State is flying around the world trying to stop nuclear catastrophe, she does check in with the president from time to time. So actually, I think it's a terrific book because she's a terrific colleague and collaborator. And we took a lot of liberties in there.īut I always tried to ground them in reality. HILLARY CLINTON: You know, when you were saying that, I wrote a book with my good friend Louise Penny called State of Terror about a woman Secretary of State. INTERVIEWER: What do you watch out of internet? HILLARY CLINTON: I mean, if I'm talking about The Diplomat, I guess I have to be diplomatic, yeah. INTERVIEWER: So you can- you're being diplomatic. ![]() And so I think that it's doing a good service, and kind of raising people's understanding and the visibility of diplomats and diplomacy. ![]() It doesn't ring bells, but I'm thrilled that people are being drawn into a story called The Diplomat, and that it's a woman who has apparently the largest writ to be ambassador to the UK that anyone has ever had, since she's out solving a lot of problems, besides who gets invited to the coronation. HILLARY CLINTON: Well, I was confirmed, but not overnight. So my question is, does any of this ring any bells with you? Now, the reason I mention this seamy sort of realistic plot to you is because the scriptwriters of it, and it's quite a big hit, say that they partly draw their inspiration from you and Bill Clinton, because her husband's also a high ranking diplomat. INTERVIEWER: And then she has a Cinderella shoot with British Vogue. HILLARY CLINTON: Fiction, fiction for sure. She arrives at the Downton Abbey on Thames place, apparently having been- they didn't show this- having been confirmed overnight by the Senate. Next morning, she's on a Gulfstream jet to London. Mid-level diplomat gets called into the Oval Office by the president, and he says to her, you're going to London as ambassador.īut I was going to Afghanistan. And there's a reason why I am quickly summarising the plot. INTERVIEWER: OK, let me, so that you don't have to watch it, quickly summarise the plot. But let me just start by asking you, have you watched the Netflix series The Diplomat? INTERVIEWER: So I want to get into really important things like US-China relations, the coming counteroffensive in Ukraine, Putin, of course, the 2024 election. You can enable subtitles (captions) in the video player ![]()
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