Hotline After Dark -- The View From The Couch

Hillary Clinton was on "The View" 10/15:

On the difference of running as a woman: "Look how much longer it takes for me to get ready." More: "I do think that there still is, you know, probably a tougher standard for women, especially running for president. I mean, we've all been through it in some way or another. Where you go and you try to break a barrier, you try to do the best you can, and people are saying, 'Well, I don't like her clothes,' or, 'I don't like her hair,' or whatever." [EMILY GOODIN]

On the first three things she will do as POTUS: "First I will begin to withdraw our troops from Iraq as carefully and responsibly as I can. ... I will also ask Americans of both parties -- distinguish Americans -- to travel around the world with the message the era of cowboy diplomacy is over. ... I have an economic agenda to start rebuilding a strong and prosperous middle class and I will start working on that immediately with the Congress."

Asked what she would do about countries that are unsympathetic to women's rights: "You know, I have been to 82 countries and I have met with the leaders of a lot of countries that are not exactly in the forefront of giving women their rights. And I've never found that to be a problem."

On Al Gore: "I'm thrilled he won the Nobel prize. ... Maybe now, when I'm president, we can get something done on global warming."

ABC's Walters, at the end of the interview: "I never got to Iran. You'll have to come back."

HRC: "I'd love to come back. But it's so great to see how secure and stable 'The View' is" (ABC, 10/15).

NOEXCUSES.COM

NBC released additional bites of Matt Lauer's upcoming interview with Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) and Suzanne Craig:

S. Craig: "They were saying that it was a marriage of convenience."

Lauer: "To cover ... a gay lifestyle."

S. Craig: "Oh, give me a break. ... People know me and know that I would never do that. ... That's almost like selling your soul for something. No."

Craig: "Larry and Suzanne Craig do not sell their souls. I love this woman very, very much. And the day I found her, I fell in love, deeply in love. And that's lasted -- we're heading toward our 25th anniversary."

Lauer: "This particular bathroom in North Star Crossing is described as a hot spot for anonymous sexual encounters between gay men. And you had no idea of that?"

Craig: "Matt, you won't believe this. But I don't use the Internet. I don't have a computer at my desk. I've never used the Internet. It's just not what I do. I e-mail with my Blackberry. No, I did not know that. I had no reason to know that."

Lauer: "Were you aware at all, Senator, of the reputation of that specific bathroom?"

Craig: "Well, I certainly am now."

Lauer: "Were you prior?"

Craig: "No, not at all. I walked into a bathroom. I walked into an entrapment and a sting that was going on" (release, 10/15).