Circumstances

Jane Pauley’s interview “Hillary Clinton speaks” was broadcast on the CBS Sunday Morning news show, on 10th of September, 2017. The interview came 10 months after Hillary Clinton lost the US presidential election of 2016, as also noted by Pauley: “Hillary Rodham Clinton has spent the last 10 months trying to figure out why she isn’t President of the United States.” (ll. 10-11)

The interview was organised in the context of Hillary Clinton publishing a book on the election’s outcome: “Jane Pauley: Hillary Rodham Clinton delivering her concession speech the day after losing last year’s presidential election. She looks back on her campaign in a new book out this week – What Happened…” (ll. 3-4)

As the journalist announces, both the book and the interview are connected with Clinton losing the presidential race. This is why the interview includes many comments and video footage related to the circumstances of the 2016 electoral campaign. For example, we find out that Clinton was expected to win but did not and that she delivered her concession spe...