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Howard Stern was jumping out of his skin when he finally sat down to interview former Secretary of State and former First Lady, Hillary Clinton. Their incredible 2019 interview was one that he had been chasing for years.

The SiriusXM radio legend has gone through quite a transformation over the years. While he was once known as an inappropriate shock jock, he has since earned the title of being one of the greatest celebrity interviewers of all time.

Sure, his long-running radio show, The Howard Stern Show, is still full of hilarious potty humor, aggressive rants, and brutal honesty. But it's also home to some of the most incredibly revealing interviews around.

So, it made sense that he wanted to get Secretary Hillary Clinton on his show before the 2016 election. Especially since The Stern Show was also home to various Donald Trump interviews. That is until Howard rejected the opportunity to endorse Trump for president. Instead, he endorsed Hillary Clinton, a woman he had admired for decades.

However, the established politician refused to come on his show for years...

Perhaps out of fear? Maybe being around him would upset her more politically correct followers? Who knows... but she refused... Until,seemingly out-of-nowhere, Howard was able to get Secretary Hillary Clinton on his SiriusXM radio show for a whopping 2 and a half hours.

Here's what it was like for Howard to finally interview her...

In Howard's 2019 book of his best interviews, "Howard Stern Comes Again", the radio host, former AGT judge, and blockbuster film star (Private Parts) detailed his desire to get Hillary Clinton on his show. Listeners of his radio show have heard him explain his desire to interview her numerous times. However, Howard beautifully encapsulated his reasoning in the book.

Aside from his admiration and his desire to see her become president, he also said this:

"I saw long before anyone else that it wasn't going to be easy for her to beat Donald. I didn't see her connecting. My audience spans the entire country, including the swing states. I know these people. They've been listening to me my entire career. I could tell that they were just not feeling Hillary and that they were really embracing Donald."

Howard knew thatTrump was connecting in a way that Hillary Clinton wasn't, therefore he wanted to do everything in his power to get her on his show to change that.

Howard knows he has a skill in interviewing and getting his guests to reveal their authentic sides. He believed that he could've helped her win over some of the voters that she wasn't winning over on the campaign trail...

Given the results of the 2016 election, perhaps Howard was right.

He and his agent as well as his producer, Gary Dell'Abate, did everything they could to get her on... But she wouldn't. Howard believes that has to do with the fact that she was afraid of his reputation from the '80s and '90s. That he would've attacked her and would've hurt her chances even more...

But nothing was further from the truth. He was on her side and wanted to help her reveal who she truly is in a hope that people would be as impressed with her as he was. This tactic has worked for Rosie O'Donnell, Ellen DeGeneres, Miley Cyrus, and even Lady Gaga, who his fanbase wasn't initially drawn to.

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After "Howard Stern Comes Again" came out, and as Hillary Clinton was promoting her new book, she decided to accept his invitation.While it sometimes seems as though there arethings that Hillary and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, want to keep on the DL, she revealed a lot to Howard.

In the interview, she spoke about her love before Bill Clinton, her relationships with her family, what it felt like to lose to Donald Trump, her contention with Senator Bernie Sanders, and even the kind of music she listens to. Almost none of this felt forced. It was authentic. Relaxed. And even a little funny... And Howard was right... multiple callers phoned in and explained that they hated her before the interview but now they wished she were the president.

At the beginning of their lengthy, in-depth interview in December 2019, Howard told Secretary Clinton how much she meant to him.

"I don't know if you read this piece of mine. But my fantasy was not only to meet you but to tell you what a hero you were to me. And how special you are to me."

"Did you ever hear about his support for you?" Robin Quivers, Howard's longtime co-host asked Secretary Clinton.

"I didn't until in the 2016 campaign," Hillary said shortly after Howard told her that he was a fan of hers even when she ran against Barack Obama in 2007/2008.

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In the interview, it was clear that Howard had done a ton of prep to be able to ask Secretary Clinton about her personal life, her career in politics, and her new book about gutsy women. He was on top of things, he was excited, and he was able to show off Hillary Clinton show off some of her more impressive qualities.

Howard Stern received massive kudos from the press for his interview with Hillary Clinton, even from those who openly dislike her. It was also clear that Hillary Clinton had a wonderful time, she even claimed that he was one of the best interviews she had ever done.

Within the interview itself,Secretary Clinton admitted that she was 'wowed' by the level of Howard's insight. Especially when he related the fact that she had a tough relationship with her distant father to how infantilized she becomes when being taken care of by the Secret Service.

"They worry about your every move, they worry about your safety, they constantly-they drive you, you almost become infantilized, in a sense."

"Again, I think that's pretty perceptive," she said. "Your therapy really--- it pays off. You've got really insightful [comments]."

You could see that interviewing Hillary Clinton was one of the highlights of Howard Stern's illustrious career. It is just too bad that it didn't happen sooner... Maybe it would've changed the results of the election. Let's hope Vice President Joe Biden takes up Howard's offer to come onto The Stern Show.

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Dylan Parker is a list and content writer working for Valnet Inc. He's written for The Things, The Talko, Baby Gaga, Moms, and Screen Rant. He specializes in entertainment, film, and celebrity news. Dylan has also written for Narcity and various other entertainment, food, and travel publications.

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Next week, Hillary Rodham Clinton, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, and former first lady will be using her lofty platform to promote a novel through Politics and Prose. Yes, you read that correctlyHRC will be in conversation with Louise Penny, the author of the thrillerAll the Devils Are Here. The book is set in Paris, and tells the tale of the Gamache family and a strange key found in a members possession. Anyone depressed about not traveling this year can live vicariously through the Parisian venues, from the top of the Tour dEiffel to luxury French hotels to the bowels of the Paris Archives. The Clinton/Penny pairing is not entirely randomClinton mentioned in her 2017 memoirWhat Happenedthat she's a major fan of the crime writer. Talk about unprecedented times: A typical free, wander-in-and-listen Politics and Prose book talk with Clinton would essentially be impossible for security reasons. Now that were all in our own homes, the bookstore seems to have jumped on the opportunity. Maybe the pandemic has its benefits? The talk begins at 5 p.m. on Sept. 1. Registration is available at eventbrite.com. $30$55.Kate Oczypok

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Winning the right to vote for women took 70 years, and many pioneering suffragistsincluding Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truthnever lived to see the certification of the 19th amendment on August 26, 1920. Today, exactly 100 years later, on what is now celebrated as Womens Equality Day, those three women have been honored in a monument in Central Park.

On hand in the park to celebrate the occasion was former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

There is nothing more important to honor the women portrayed in this statue than to vote, she told the small, socially distanced crowd.While the passage of the the 19th amendment was a critical, important, historic victory, it was also an incomplete one. It would take decades longer to guarantee the franchise to women of color, especially Black and Native American women, and a century later, the struggle to enforce the right to vote continues.

The 14-foot-tallWomens Rights Pioneers Monument, by sculptorMeredith Bergmann, literally places womens history on a pedestal and honors the role of three New Yorkers in that monumental effort. Our rights were not gained by one dramatic action but from long shared struggle, Bergmann said after the unveiling.

Hillary Clinton poses with sculptor Meredith Bergmann after the unveiling of the statue of womens rights pioneers Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth in Central Park. Photo by Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images.

The monument is the first public monument to honor real historical female figuresrather than fictional onesin Central Park, where it joins statues ofAlice in Wonderland and Mother Goose. It is also the first depiction of an African American there. In the city as a whole, there are just five existing civic sculptures of historic women, compared to 145 of men.

I cant think of a better monument to the history and spirit of New York than these fiercely determined women who fought for a better, more inclusive, more just future, said New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in a message broadcast during the unveiling ceremony, which was livestreamed from the park. Every woman who votes, protests, or serves in office today does so standing on the shoulders of these three giants.

The nonprofit Monumental Womenspearheaded the new statue,raising $1.5 million in fundsincluding contributions from local Girl Scout troops from their cookie salesto donate the work to the city. The effort was seven years in the making.

Seven years ago, no one was talking about statuesand now folks are mostly talking about tearing them down, said Manhattan borough president Gale Brewer, who, with councilwoman Helen Rosenthal, raised $135,000 for the project. We set out to break the bronze ceiling, and it wasnt easy.

Meredith Bergmann, Womens Rights Pioneers Monument (model). Photo by Michael Bergmann.

There hadnt been a new permanent sculpture in the city in 70 years, and Monumental Women received all sorts of reasons why that wasnt going to change, Brewer recalled. The park is closed to new statues. Women dont want a statue, they want a garden. If we say yes to this statue, we have to say yes to any statue. And, my personal favorite, you have to prove that each of these women actually set foot in Central Park.

Now, the monument, located on the parks Literary Walknear 68th Street, is the first in a new wave of public artworks honoring New Yorks historic women. Thecity introduced the She Built NYC initiative tocommission artworks honoring womens history in 2018, and has sinceannounced plans for monuments to jazz legend Billie Holiday, public health pioneer HelenRodrguez Tras, civil rights leaderElizabeth Jennings Graham, lighthouse keeper Katherine Walker, and Shirley Chisholm, the nations first Black congresswoman.

Central Park is also getting a new statue of Albro Lyons, Mary Joseph Lyons, and their daughter Maritcha Lyons, educators and abolitionists who lived in Seneca Village, the African American community displaced to make way for the park.

Meredith Bergmann working on the Womens Rights Pioneers Monument. Photo by Michael Bergmann.

These efforts to increase representation of women in the citys public places are not without controversy. The public was invited to nominate women for She Built NYC, but the top vote-getter,St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, was ultimately passed over, outraging some among the Italian American community. And the Lyons family sculpture has been criticized for its planned location, some 20 blocks north of the former village.

TheWomens Rights Pioneers Monument, too, faced significant backlash for its original intent to depict just Anthony and Stanton. After widespread criticism that the design ignored the contributions of Black women to the suffrage movement, the artist addedTruth to the monument in 2019. Nonetheless, it still has its detractors, even after a secondsecond redesignaddressed concerns that Truth seemed too passive in the sculpture.

In pre-recorded remarks aired at the unveiling, New York congresswoman Carolyn Maloney called on viewers to draw momentum from the new monument and join her decades-long push to build a Smithsonian Womens History Museum on the National Mall, and to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, currently caught in a legal battle.

For too long womens history has been swept aside or simply ignored, Maloney said. No more.

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ANALYSIS/OPINION:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and the mob, each in their own way, last week increased the risk that we will face a fairly grave constitutional moment.

Mrs. Pelosi, in an unscripted moment, with her usual charm, identified the president and his allies in Congress (one can only assume she meant all the congressional Republicans) as domestic enemies of the United States. For her part, Mrs. Clinton publicly advised Democratic presidential candidate Jose[h R. Biden not to concede the election under any circumstances. The mob attacked a U.S. senator in the street.

In ordinary times, these comments and actions would be remarkable enough and worthy enough of severe approbation. But in a presidential election cycle in which there is a very real possibility of a contested result, identifying the opposition as domestic enemies, counseling no concessions of any kind and assaulting an elected official merely because he is an elected official amount to material endangerment of the republic.

How likely is a contested election? In 1876, the election was close enough that it hinged on the votes (and the voting certification process) in three states: South Carolina, Louisiana and Florida. This year, vote counts may take weeks because of a surge in voting by mail and early in-person voting. A shortfall of poll workers and an increase in claims of voter fraud also will complicate matters, as will likely violence in select cities on Election Day.

The timeline is a problem as well. By Dec. 14, just 41 days after the Nov. 3 election, states are required to convene their presidential electors and forward their certified results to the House. Think about that for a moment. In less than six weeks, states will have to count all the votes, settle the inevitable legal disputes over vote counting and forward the results to the House.

That is going to be a challenge in states such as Florida, Michigan and Pennsylvania, where the election results are likely to be very close and very material to the question of who will be president on Jan. 20, 2021.

When the House convenes on or around Jan. 5, 2021, its first order of business will be to pass rules for the organization of the House, as well as vote for its leaders. The second order of business will be to officially receive and approve the certification and votes of electors from the states. Thats where the wheels can fall off the cart.

If the House is given multiple certifications for a state, it can decide which it chooses to accept or it can determine on its own to disallow or ignore a certification for good reasons or no reason at all. If the House is unable to determine and certify a winner, it must vote for a president. In such an event, each state delegation has one vote. Currently, the House is split almost down the middle 26 delegations are majority Republican, 23 majority Democratic and Pennsylvania is evenly split. That arrangement might change in the wake of this years elections, or it may not.

In 1876, governors and legislatures in the three states in question sent competing certifications to the House for Democratic nominee Sam Tilden and Republican nominee Rutherford B. Hayes. Unable to determine which to accept, the House was seized by paralysis, and for a time it looked as if the the U.S. would head toward warfare for the second time in 15 years. What saved the day was a deal under which Reconstruction would be terminated in exchange for seating Hayes as president.

Thats the problem with Mrs. Pelosis and Mrs. Clintons comments and the surliness of the mob. If the election is marked by uncertainty, delay and competing claims of legitimacy, it is imperative that leaders on both sides maintain their composure and optionality. Identifying a rival party as a domestic enemy, or foreclosing any possible remedy to a crisis, is not wise.

We all hope that the election is safe and straightforward, and the results conclusive. But if it isnt, and they arent, we all need to be proceed as if our republic is at risk. Because it will be.

Michael McKenna, a columnist for The Washington Times, is the president of MWR Strategies. He was most recently a deputy assistant to the president and deputy director of the Office of Legislative Affairs at the White House.

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Poised over the piano, Carole King was set to play I Feel the Earth Move during a recent virtual fundraiser for Joe Biden when the Democratic presidential nominee himself beat her to it.

On my playlist, Carole! Mr Biden proclaimed, holding up his phone and letting a few seconds of the song blast.

Oh, well, Ill just sit back and let you play your playlist, Ms King said with a laugh.

The four-time Grammy winner isnt the only Biden playlist mainstay helping his campaign against Donald Trump. Jimmy Buffett noted that Come Monday was among the hits stored on Mr Bidens phone before singing it at another recent fundraiser. And James Taylor told another group that he learned to play America the Beautiful for Barack Obamas 2013 inauguration, when Mr Biden was sworn in for four more years as vice president.

With in-person campaigning largely suspended because of the coronavirus, a parade of movie and TV stars, pop icons and sports standouts are proving crucial in helping Mr Biden raise money and energise supporters as campaign surrogates. Events this week with celebrities and advocates including actress Alyssa Milano are serving as counter-programming to the Republican National Convention.

Were just flooding the zone as much as possible, said Michelle Kwan, Mr Bidens surrogate director and an Olympic silver and bronze medallist figure skater who held a similar post for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Our artists and actors who are surrogates, they tend to be at home so their availability and their schedule has opened up (and) theyre willing to do more things.

Mr Bidens campaign now has a team of 15 staffers dedicated to organising surrogate activities.

Republicans point to the events as evidence that Mr Biden and his running mate, California senator Kamala Harris, are closer to Hollywood than the heartland. Speaking at the RNC this week, party chairwoman Ronna McDaniel noted that actress Eva Longoria, known for her role on Desperate Housewives, moderated one night of last weeks Democratic convention.

Well, Im actually a real housewife and a mom from Michigan with two wonderful kids in public school who happens to be only the second woman in 164 years to run the Republican Party, Ms McDaniel said.

Still, Mr Biden has gone beyond celebrities in search of campaign surrogates. Hes enlisted the help of nearly all of the 20-plus Democrats he beat during the primary. And Mr Obama has taken a more aggressive role in supporting his former vice president.

The campaign often pairs celebrities with lesser-known officials from all levels of government to make personalised pitches to voters, especially when Mr Biden himself isnt able to attend an event.

Ms Milano has appeared with former labour secretary Hilda Solis, and actors like Connie Britton held an online event with former Obama administration official Valerie Jarrett while Don Cheadle hosted a youth activist forum.

Other times it is elected officials who are far from household names carrying online events alone: former interior secretary Ken Salazar addressed Hispanics in New Mexico and former secretary of state John Kerry brought his New England appeal to Maine voters. As many as a half dozen such events now come multiple times per week often when Mr Biden himself is only doing a single, separate fundraiser or two in the meantime.

The campaign also holds events partnering some of its staffers with celebrities so that discussions on policy reach audiences that may not be closely following the presidential race, deliberately blurring the line between pop culture and politics even more.

Were introducing our campaign to their followers who might not always be involved with the campaign, said Adrienne Elrod, a Clinton 2016 spokeswoman who is now Mr Bidens director of surrogate strategy and operations.

Mr Bidens team distributes a one-page list of virtual event guidelines, with tips including making sure wifi is working correctly and that no one in the house sucks up bandwidth during show time. Such preparations cant prevent everything. Just as actor Forest Whitaker was introducing Mr Biden at a virtual event in June, an Amber alert shrieked from his phone.

Star appeal doesnt always translate to votes. Ms Clintons unsuccessful presidential bid was endorsed by everyone from singer Lady Gaga to actress Lena Dunham to NBA star LeBron James. She failed to win Pennsylvania, despite a sprawling Philadelphia rally on Election Day eve featuring singers Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi and the Obamas.

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire political science professor Eric T Kasper compared celebrity endorsements to yard signs, saying they are unlikely to sway a race but are effective at getting people talking. Stars generate candidate buzz, help with fundraising and can build campaign event crowds even for those online.

You have this national audience as a presidential candidate youre trying to seek favour from, said Mr Kasper, who has researched the intersection of politics and popular culture. Its much more difficult to connect in terms of retail politics, especially in a general election, on a nationwide scale.

Mr Trump used his personal celebrity to build hype for his 2016 bid. His re-election campaign has been holding its own online events with top supporters nearly every night for months and says its online events average 2.6 million views per broadcast, though its headliners are often the presidents children. A similar roster is dominating this weeks convention.

Enthusiasm for Joe Biden simply does not exist, said Trump re-election campaign spokeswoman Courtney Parella, and no celebrity he hides behind will fix that problem.

Some stars are supporters of the president, including actors Dean Cain and Jon Voight, who narrated a pro-Trump convention video. So far, though, they havent been actively campaigning for him. Instead, Mr Trump has used the advantages of incumbency to crisscross the country on official business that draws throngs of supporters.

The Trump campaign has also seized on Mr Bidens preferred venue for participating in online events, a basement studio in his Delaware home accusing the former vice president of hiding from voters.

Mr Biden has shrugged off such criticisms and, during a recent fundraiser, actor Tom Hanks noted that Mr Biden was appearing from his notoriously bad basement, which the actor said didnt seem so terrible.

I could talk to you for another four and a half hours, Mr Hanks joked after 40-plus minutes. But I dont think America needs another Zoom call that long.

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