It happened on the floor of the Senate.
After all the years she's worked to become powerful and important, I'm surprised she exposed her emotional side like she did.
She must have felt very, very desperate.
Nickles questioned her about the length of time people would be eligible for unemployment. He said that from the official wording it seemed as though they would be eligible for twice as long as Hillary had just told the Senators.
Hillary thanked him (sort of) for pointing out that little detail. Then she tried to talk about other things. I think another senator or two offered their opinions around this time.
At some point Hillary said that maybe the wording could be changed so it would be clearer to Nickles. (Almost as though it was his fault that he couldn't understand it. --A quick dig.)
A little later Hillary said that they based this legislation's wording on legislation that came out during the Bush 1 administration (putting in a little dig that there was a Bush 1 bad economy, just like there is a Bush 2 bad economy).
Nickles was concerned about the trigger mechanism for this bill as opposed to the Bush 1 bill. When Nickles asked her some specific question about the circumstances for the Bush 1 bill she said, in effect, "How would I know? That was before my time. I wasn't in the Senate then." This was jarring, because she had just acted as though she and her buddies had spent time looking at the Bush 1 bill. You would think they would know something about the circumstances surrounding it.
When you read the transcript (or see the tape) you'll realize Hillary was unprepared for any meaningful discussion of something that was supposedly important to her.
She kept trying to talk at length about particular unemployed people, rather than deal with what the legislation really said. Nickles asked her very specific questions and she was unable (or unwilling) to answer them. Her tactics were just like those of her husband. (She used WJC's typical story line of --"Now take Joe Smith. He's a steelworker whose been unemployed for 3 months......") It was obvious that she wanted the viewers to know how very, very much she and the Democrats care about the (non-)working people.
I wish I could remember everything and the order in which it happened. I hope you all get to see it.