earlier in michigan mitch, connect with rust belt voters in pennsylvania.mitch, connect with rust belt voters in pennsylvania. all blue states that went for donald trump. or why the first female nominee could not win a majority of white college educated women. i was on the way to winning until the combination of jim comey s letter on october 28 and russian wikileaks raised doubts in the minds ever people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off. reporter: clinton s explanation that wikileaks s dump of her campaign managers e-mails timed to distract from the access hollywood tape. within an hour or two of the hollywood access tape being made public, the russian theft of john podesta s e-mails hit wikileaks. what a coincidence. reporter: what about her responsibility for failing to have a better message? did i make mistakes? oh, my gosh, yes. but the reason why i believe we lost were the intervening events