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Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC did her best to represent Hillary Clinton’s side of the argument in the following exchange with Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina Wednesday:

Fiorina: “I come from a world where titles are just titles, and talk is just talk. It’s only in politics where titles and words mean a lot. In the rest of the world, it’s actually about what have you done, actions speak louder than words. People want to know are your words and your actions consistent and are they consistent over time. And so, I think when 82 percent of the American people now believe that there is a professional political class more interested in preserving its own power and privilege than it is in serving the American people, people expect basic questions to be asked of anyone running for president. ‘What have you done, are you trustworthy, are you transparent, will you answer questions?’”

Mitchell: “Going back to before she was first lady in Arkansas, she can argue that she’s got a record on women’s issues from the Beijing Women’s conference, to all of her work with the Children’s Defense fund, going up through the Senate, senator from New York – that’s a record, secretary of state,” said Mitchell. Then with a hint of incredulity: “How do you compare yourself to her?”

Fiorina: [Hillary Clinton has indeed said some “wonderful things” as Secretary of State,] “It’s also true that as Secretary of State she took women’s rights and human rights off the table for discussion with China. It’s also true as Secretary of State that she called Bashar al-Assad a positive reformer. It’s also true that in 2011, when she was Secretary of State, she said that Iraq was a free, stable, sovereign nation. And now we have a nation falling apart, Iranian influence growing, ISIS growing. It’s true that she said that she could reset our Russia — our relationship with Russia and Vladimir Putin is on the march. So, I think all of those things I just named go fundamentally to what is her track record.”

Mitchell: “You could also argue that a lot of Republicans in the White House and in Congress supported those policies –”
Fiorina: “Absolutely, that’s right. And by the way, every single Republican candidate has been asked about their vote for the war in Iraq. The one person who’s not been asked that question, because she won’t answer the question is Hillary Clinton. One person who was on the job in 2011, when Iraq started to fall apart, was not the Republican nominees or — candidates for president, it’s Hillary Clinton. She hasn’t been asked yet. What would she do now in Iraq?”

Mitchell: [What would you do in Iraq?]

Fiorina:“I would do very specific things. First, instead of having a Camp David conference to talk our Arab allies into a bad deal with Iran, I would have had a Camp David conference to talk with our Arab allies about how we can support them to fight ISIS. Let me give you very specific examples. The Kurds have been asking us to arm them for three years, we still have not. The Jordanians have been asking us to provide them with bombs and materiel. We know King Abdullah of Jordan, I’ve known him for many years. He took the appropriate leadership steps when a Jordanian pilot was burned alive. He was here in this country asking us for bombs and materiel, we haven’t provided him with any of them. He’s now looking to China for that. The Egyptian president, a very brave and pious Muslim, who has said there is a cancer in the heart of Islam, has asked us to share intelligence. We are not. … There are a whole set of things that we’ve been asked to do by our allies who know this is their fight, and we’re not doing any of them.”

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