Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight, and in a preview released by CBS, the former Secretary of State reacted to one of the many pieces of breaking news today.

TONIGHT: Sec. @HillaryClinton and @ChelseaClinton react to the news that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was on the line during Trump's problematic call with the leader of Ukraine. #LSSC pic.twitter.com/pk9nhcEF02

— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) October 1, 2019

Colbert brought up the news from The Wall Street Journal that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was on the Trump Ukraine call, and asked Clinton how many times she told Barack Obama, “You can’t extort foreign countries to get dirt on your political enemies.”

Clinton laughed and said, “That never happened.”

She told Colbert normally a high level of preparation goes into such calls, but “because you’ve got a president who doesn’t listen to anybody and doesn’t follow instructions whatsoever,” officials may have just given up because “they don’t know what he’s going to say.”

Clinton — who said recently she’s all in favor of impeachment — also defended the whistleblower and responded to people dismissing the complaint as hearsay, saying, “It was an admission from the White House. The transcript of the phone call was put out by the White House, and the whistleblower has a depth of understanding that needs to be taken seriously about what happened.”

Colbert also brought up Rudy Giuliani being involved in foreign policy. Clinton mocked Giuliani a bit by saying while presidents and Secretaries of State utilize envoys, “it is supposed to be carefully thought through, and from what we’ve seen on television, carefully thinking through is not one of Rudy’s strong points.”

You can watch the preview above, via CBS.

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