possibly could, hear some of what went on on the road, the kinds of activities that you do when you re running for president, especially as a woman. but also to tackle the hard questions like what happened in the campaign, what were the mistakes i made, which i talk about, and what else happened. and particularly with an eye to understanding what we need to know so it doesn t happen again. one of the things you write about is the inauguration. yes. i want to just take you back to inauguration day. you re standing inside the capitol waiting to go out on the platform with the former president, clinton, what was going through your mind? well, it was such a surreal moment, because usually a candidate who doesn t win the election without some other position wouldn t go. but as a former first lady, you know, my husband and i go to gnawing ragsz. it s part of the way we demonstrate continuity of government. and i really debated whether i could do it or not.
you re standing inside the capitol waiting to go to the platform with former president clinton. what was going through your mind? well, it was such a surreal moment. because usually a candidate wouldn t go. we go to inaugurations. it s part of the way we demonstrate continuity government. i debated whether i could do it or not. you called up jimmy carter. right. our offices were in communication with both carters and both bushes. they couldn t come because of poor health. bill and i said we ve got to do this. we were going. i can t tell you i was looking forward to it. i write in the book about how really strange it was to sit there and to listen to the kind
offset in the other. is it your sense that whatever comes out, let s say on the tax thing first, congressman, that that would be retroactive or is it your feeling let s say it is september to your point, that that tax cut would take effect then? i mean, there s two camps. i can tell you for me, i believe we need to make it retroactive. a lot of pent-up capitol waiting to be invested right now. any unsureness freezes the assets. so for me, it s about making it retroactive or certainly to july where they can start counting on that. i can tell you that there s a real sense of urgency not just between in the senate and the house, but at the white house to make sure that we fulfill this campaign promise. so today we announced that we believe we need to make a real decision in the next four weeks to at least start the debate on
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that s going to continue, pending some other pixie dust solution. we re expecting to hear any minute now from the speaker of the house as well as other republicans as well. in the meantime i ve been trying to workup getting dana bash, who has been digging up a lot of great background information today. she s been busy on capitol hill. let me read for you one thing dana bash was able to find. this is our dana. this was something that was an advisory that went out to the house gop. at this morning s conference, the leaders will be rolling out a plan to provide for a temporary increase in the debt limit as we pursue other avenues for negotiation. that is only the first part of it. dana bash joins me now live to talk about the rest of it. way to go. excellent scoop. so, it s true. they re going to make this overtur. how many republicans are on board with this, do you know, dana? well, ashleigh, let me set the scene. i m on the phone. we re in the basement of the capitol waiting for the s