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http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/06/halperin-heilemann-slam-rusty-clinton-190267.html?hp=r5

Halperin, Heilemann slam 'rusty' Clinton

"Game Change" co-authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann offered the most critical take yet on Hillary Clinton's first interviews with the national media in an interview with Charlie Rose on Wednesday night.

"I don't think she's handled things well at all this week," Heilemann said. "She was very rusty. Mark said earlier he thought the book... was 'mush and the interview was 'tone deaf,' I thought that was probably true. I'm not through the whole book yet, but I think those are both accurate."

The authors' chief critique centered on Clinton's claim that she and her husband were "not just broke, but in debt" when they left the White House in 2001, and had "struggled to... piece together the resources for mortgages, for houses, for Chelsea’s education."

"I don't what Hillary Clinton would have said if she had been asked detailed questions -- 'Well, how many houses did you have?' And: 'If you were so broke, why exactly did you buy one house across the street from the British Embassy and another in Westchester County?' ... Had she been hit with the hardest set of questions you could imagine, with a bulldog-ish set of questions, I don't know what she would have done."

Said Halperin, "She was rusty. To handle the wealth question the way she did did not show a lot of deftness, a lot of finesse." Of Clinton's book: "I don't understand writing a book of that length without a message."