--- title: Hillary Clinton Just Talked to the Press After Four Weeks description: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton broke a four-week streak of not talking to reporters. canonical: https://time.com/3889406/hillary-clinton-reporter-questions/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-19T16:39:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:41:26.709Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Just Talked to the Press After Four Weeks og:description: She broke her silence for a couple quick questions in Iowa. og:url: https://time.com/3889406/hillary-clinton-reporter-questions/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d3b6b35b872a55f/69884d1a2dce0131769e361d/clinton-emails_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4780 og:image:height: 2689 og:image:alt: Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaking Washington, D.C. on March 23, 2015. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Just Talked to the Press After Four Weeks twitter:description: She broke her silence for a couple quick questions in Iowa. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d3b6b35b872a55f/69884d1a2dce0131769e361d/clinton-emails_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Just Talked to the Press After Four Weeks > Sponsored content. 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Watch the top 10 moments from Hillary Clinton's career in politics._ by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith May 19, 2015 4:39 PM UTC  Hillary Clinton speaks at an event hosted by the Center for American Progress and the America Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees in Washington on March 23, 2015 Hillary Clinton speaks at an event hosted by the Center for American Progress and the America Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees in Washington on March 23, 2015 Pablo Martinez Monsivais—AP by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith May 19, 2015 4:39 PM UTC Hillary Clinton just ended a four-week streak of not talking to reporters. In a brief stop in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Tuesday, the former Secretary of State briefly answered questions about a review of her emails and her [correspondence with confidant Sidney Blumenthal](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/us/politics/what-sidney-blumenthals-memos-to-hillary-clinton-said-and-how-they-were-handled.html?%5Fr=0) about Libya. “I want those emails out. Nobody has a bigger interest in getting those out than me,” she told reporters. “I want the American people to learn as much as we can about the work that I did with our diplomats and development experts … My emails are at the heart of that.” > [](https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/600697600463900674) It was the first time since April 21 that Clinton had answered a question from the press, when she [told reporters that a book](http://www.wmur.com/politics/clinton-camp-knocks-book-on-foreign-donations/32463388) about the Clinton Foundation was went “with the terrority” of running for president. In recent weeks, however, the actual topics of Clinton’s interviews with the press had been eclipsed by her reticence to talk at all. The New York _Times_ [began a regular feature](http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/05/06/questions-for-hillary-clinton-immigration/) publishing questions it would have asked her, while the Washington _Post_ [created a clock](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/05/12/heres-a-clock-that-counts-the-minutes-since-hillary-clinton-answered-a-press-question/) which showed how long it had been since she last answered questions. NPR even [rounded up all 13 questions](http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/13/406250488/the-13-questions-hillary-clinton-has-answered-from-the-press) she’d answered. Republicans also criticized her silence, with former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina boasting that she had answered hundreds of questions in the same time period. But it was the press that forced the issue Tuesday. Fox News reporter Ed Henry [interrupted](https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/600694051067797504) as Clinton talked to Iowans at a campaign event, forcing Clinton to say she would “put it on my list for due consideration” before deciding to answer questions. _\-With reporting from Sam Frizell, Cedar Falls, IA_ ## Transcript You know, I'm not sittin' here some little woman standing here by my man like Tammy Wynette. I'm sittin' here because I love him, and I respect him. Now is our chance to beat the historical odds, and give the American people the health security they need. If there is one message that echoes forth from this. Let it be that human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights once and for all. The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right- wing conspiracy that has been conspiring. Against my husband since the day he announced for president. I would be happy to, when you give me the signed letters. Well, right here. Right here. When you give me. Right here. Sign it right now. We'll shake. We'll shake on this, Ray. No, no, I want your signature, cause I think that everybody wants to see you signing something that you said you were for. You know, I have so many opportunities from this country. I just don't wanna see us fall backwards. Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it. The battle to stop Al Qaeda and its affiliates. Does not end with one death. What difference, at this point, does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator. I took the unprecedented step of asking that the state department make all my work- related emails, [ MUSIC ] Public for everyone to see. 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