when they write books. hillary clinton s 8,000 page autobuy og know was almost unreadable because every page was calculated it seemed, but that stripped away here. yes. you re just kind of jarred regardless of what you think of hillary clinton when she says, you know, i knew i had a great responsibility, and i failed. it will haunt me for the rest of my life. this is not standard fare for political memoirs and yes, she ll be calculating i m sure in this book and yes, she ll maybe blame others instead of herself, but a lot of self-reflection here, i think, that we re hearing that a lot of people are going to be really surprised by, andrea. it s going to make it very compelling. absolutely. you know, i ve covered hillary clinton since the really tough days of the campaign in 1992. we remember all the new hampshire primary and the explosion and i ll never forget
took after college many years ago. it was the firestorm about this book happened about a year ago. she had self published it in the spring and there was an excerpt in the telegraph, which is when it got people s attention. it was about a gap year she had taken in the late 90s in zambia and it was, you know, as kmen ters on the excerpt in the telegraph said full of stereo times about africa. it was factually incorrect about the history of the country. the zblam beian government actually stepped in and issued a complaint about it. and it was taken off of amazon. the telegraph pulled it off and retracted it. and she did apologize for why did it get that much attention, though? if we re talking about last spring, is she s not the wife of the treasury secretary. she s sort of a mid ling actress who may be familiar to some people, not a household name.
otherwise, so. and lynn ton actually at the time pulled the book from amazon. the telegraph retracted its piece and now she s apologized for that grotesque instagram post she made the other day. thank you. always good to see you. thank you. still ahead, more on the president s wild rally in phoenix last night, going after both of arizona s senators, threatening to shut down the government over the border wall, blaming the media for the country s racial divide and hinting at a pardon for a former sheriff accused of racial profiling. a lot to get to this morning. and we ll bring in the mayor of phoenix. all ahead on morning joe. and live tv. the channels you love. your favorite shows and movies. making your iphone into more of a. oh my tv is ringing. hey.i m in the middle of a.a second iphone from at&t? okay! right now when you buy a new iphone 7 from at&t you ll get a second iphone 7 on us. and power both with unlimited data and live tv.
why so much focus on the book? you think back people have been writing mem worls for a long time, but we live in an era when it is very, very possible for people around the world to read something, this excerpt and spopd to it in real time and fact check in real time. and this was a manuscript that was hurtful to a lot of people because it presented an image of a country that was stereo typed and people got up in arms about it. i think sometimes it wasn t a big book. as you a, it was self published. it s not like it was coming out from a big publisher. but such is the world that we in, the sponlssiveness of social media and also the sensitivity of people saying, look, don t try to tell our story. people from zambia said you are presenting an image of our country that s true. and we have a voice to say
jim vandehei thanks. still ahead on morning joe more of our morning joe exclusive, excerpt from hillary clinton s book of the moment she wanted to tell donald trump to back up you creep in the town hall debate last week. we ll bring in andrea mitchell who was at the debate. you re watching morning joe. we ll be right back. whoooo.