Hillary Clinton talks about marriage to Bill Clinton

I want to ask you one last question, a personal question. You talk a little bit about your marriage and about about Bill and I and I hesitate to do this but you have had for better or worse the most probably one of the most public marriages in you know in the world. Everybody knows. Well they think they know. They think they know and that's what I want to ask you. You talk about the dark periods. Do you feel as though you are now in a place where you do you forget the dark periods? Do they stay with you? How do you know you see you and your husband seem to have and you have survived while so many of your detractors are now thrice divorced. Of course I know. Well I think for me and as I've said this for many years nobody really knows what happens in a marriage except the two people in it and every marriage I'm aware of has ups and downs not public hopefully for everyone else and you have to make the decisions that are right for you and I would never tell anybody else stay in a marriage, leave a marriage, whatever the easy answer is and you know for me and and for us I think it's fair to say we are so grateful that at this stage of our life we have our grandchildren. We have our time together. You know I write about how we start the morning playing spelling bee in bed and you know Bill is like such a great player. He gets to Queen Bee almost immediately it feels like. We just have a good time. We have a good time sharing this life that we've lived together for now nearly 50 years of marriage. That's what is right for us and that's really my my message. You know I write in the book how during one of the darkest periods during the impeachment I had to almost have a binary view of the world that I was living in my reality. On the one hand I was deeply hurt, deeply confused, really upset, angry and on the other hand I knew that this was a political ploy to try to drive you know Bill out of office and I thought he'd been a really good president and I resented that as an American citizen that these hypocrites who you know had all kinds of their own stories about you know marriage and everything else were going after him because of a very unfortunate you know incident in his life. So on the one hand I'm trying to make a decision about my life, my marriage, my future, my child, my family which only I could make. On the other hand I saw the hypocrisy and cruelty of what those Republican you know members of Congress were doing and that is a reality that people on the outside could never have understood and you know obviously I got tons of unsolicited advice from all sorts of observers but my friends and I have a whole chapter in there about how incredibly grateful I am to my friends, friends of a lifetime, friends you know that have stood with me, have supported me, who during that dark period showed up at the White House to be with me and and I you know I had a a different kind of set of challenges. I mean it's always hard if there's a problem in your marriage you you feel like it's your entire world but in my case it was the world so I had to go through it at my own pace on my own terms according to my own values and I'm I'm very grateful that we are where we are. And I'm very grateful to you for coming on the show. This has been a pleasure and honor. Thank you Farid. Always good to see you.