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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to Bo Copley about a photograph of his children during a campaign event in Williamson, West Virginia, United States, May 2, 2016. JIM YOUNG / Reuters

"Those people out there don't see you as a friend," he said, referring to the dozens of protesters within earshot.

Clinton then engaged in a very frank conversation about her comments, apologizing repeatedly and calling her prior remarks a "misstatement."

"What I said was totally out of context from what I meant because I have been talking about helping coal country for a very long time," she said. "What I was saying is that the way things are going now, we will continue to lose jobs. That's what I meant to say."

She later admitted that her comments on coal miners meant her chances in the upcoming West Virginia primary are "pretty difficult."

Aides said they knew coming to the region could produce tough conversations like this one, but felt it was important to address this issue head-on. The confrontation came in the midst of a two-day bus swing through Appalachia, featuring mostly small events focused on the economy and jobs.

After the event, Copley told reporters he "would have liked to have heard more of what her plan is" for coal country.

When asked if she won him over, he said no.

Copley, 39, is a registered Republican and explained that he hasn't made up his mind about which candidate he's going to vote for in the primary.

"I'm not into political games. I'm not worried about the primary," he said. "I want to hear the plans you have in store for us if you do get elected."

Though he appreciated Clinton's apology, he said he wished it had been made in public sooner than Monday's event.

Outside the event, protesters could be heard yelling "Go home, Hillary!" Several were carrying Trump signs and alternated between chants of "Benghazi! Benghazi!" and "We want Trump!"

Clinton meanwhile made indirect reference to the protests by saying: "I will do whatever I can regardless of whether people are yelling at me and whether people are misrepresenting me or whether people are not looking at everything I say and taking something out of context. That's part of it, I understand that. But I'm gonna get up every single day trying to figure out what to do to help you provide the kind of future for your children that they deserve to have."

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The remarks are the first time that Trump has raised the former president's alleged affairs and Hillary Clinton's behavior amidst a flurry of accusations since becoming the Republican Party's presumptive nominee. Trump had previously accused Clinton of being an "enabler" to her husband's behavior, but he ramped up his rhetoric on Friday.

"She's been the total enabler. She would go after these women and destroy their lives," Trump said, adding, "She was an unbelievably nasty, mean enabler, and what she did to a lot of those women is disgraceful."

Trump did not expand upon what he believes Clinton did to "destroy" the lives of those women. A message left with the Clinton campaign Friday night was not immediately returned.

The brash billionaire on Friday sought to get ahead of what he believes will be an onslaught of attack ads against him, focusing specifically on sexist remarks he has made.

"So what they're doing is $90 million of ads on Donald Trump and it has to do a lot with the women's issue. But I'm saying to myself, nobody in this country and maybe in the history of this country politically was worse than Bill Clinton with women," Trump said to cheers at a rally here.

Trump predicted the Clinton campaign would use crude comments he has made about women and sex in interviews with talk radio host Howard Stern against him in attack ads.

Trump has used a range of words to describe women he's disagreed with, such as Rosie O'Donnell and Arianna Huffington, including "fat pig," "slob" and "dog."

"Don't forget, I was never going to run for office," Trump said in his defense.

He also retweeted a tweet calling Megyn Kelly a "bimbo" earlier this year, and in the first GOP debate, suggested that Kelly was on her period as the Fox News anchor asked him a prodding question.

And he suggested that then-GOP presidential rival Carly Fiorina was too ugly to be elected last fall: "Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that?" Trump said during an interview with Rolling Stone magazine.

Trump defiantly defended himself Friday: "Nobody respects women more than me."

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Hillary Clinton has always made known that she wants Bill Clinton to have some kind of role in the White House should she become president, and over the past few weeks, she's begun to reveal more about what exactly that would be.

During a campaign event in Fort Mitchell today, the Democratic presidential candidate was more blunt than ever about what her husband's role would be in a future Clinton administration saying she plans to to put the former president "in charge of economic revitalization."

"My husband, who I'm going to put in charge of revitalizing the economy, 'cause you know he knows how to do it," Clinton told the crowd at an outdoor organizing rally. "And especially in places like coal country and inner cities and other parts of our country that have really been left out."

Clinton made similar remarks earlier this month during her first visit to Kentucky, a state where Bill Clinton remains popular among the largely white, working class voters.

"I've told my husband he's got to come out of retirement and be in charge of this because you know hes got more ideas a minute than anybody I know," she said, while talking about manufacturing and jobs.

Over the course of the campaign, Clinton has repeatedly said she would seek her husband's advice if she takes office.

Last month on ABC's "The View," she had this to say when asked about how she sees his role: "I think he'll I hope he'll have a lot of involvement in starting the economy to really take off."

And last year, in an interview on MSNBC, she said, "He's a great adviser, and he knows as much about the economy and job creation as anyone I could talk to."

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During a speech in Kentucky Sunday she referred to "my husband, who I will put in charge of revitalizing the economy 'cause he knows what he's doing."

The U.S. economy boomed during President Clinton's administration. His economic record is an effective selling point, especially as U.S. growth remains sluggish, and most voters worry about the economy.

During Clinton's eight years as president, the U.S. economy added more than 22 million jobs. That's slightly more jobs than were added during the combined 22-year tenure of the four most recent Republican presidents.

In the spring of 2000, Clinton's final year in office, a greater percentage of Americans had jobs than any time since record-keeping began soon after World War II.

Giving Clinton's policies full credit for boosting the economy isn't entirely fair. The rapid growth of the Internet during his eight years in office greatly increased business productivity and profits and helped to fuel the hiring boom. There was also a bubble in Internet stocks, which poured money into the tech sector and helped spurred hiring.

But government policies did help also. The federal government actually ran surpluses rather than deficits during Clinton's final three years in office, and that reduced the need for government borrowing and helped to keep interest rates relatively low.

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But there are critics on both the right and the left who argue that Clinton's policies laid the groundwork for the economic problems that were to follow.

Many regulations were eliminated during Clinton's administration that had previously prevented commercial banks from moving into investment banking and insurance, which had been the turf of Wall Street firms. Some critics have blamed the loss of those protections for the financial market's meltdown and the need to bail out banks that occurred in 2008.

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The North American Free Trade Agreement, which lowered trade barriers with Mexico and Canada, was signed into law early in the Clinton administration. China and the U.S. also signed a trade accord in 1999 which led to China joining the World Trade Organization. Those moves led to dramatic increases in imports from Mexico and China, which critics say cost U.S. workers their jobs.

Advocates of those deals says that the U.S. economy was bound to lose many of those jobs to lower wage countries even without the trade pacts.

Hillary Clinton's campaign's press secretary Nick Merrill said that her comments don't reflect any decision to name her husband to a some specific post in her administration.

"It would be getting ahead of ourselves to talk about any sort of formalized role for anyone in her administration," he said. "I think that her point has been time and again that he has a lot to offer and it would be foolish not to use that in some capacity. It has not gone any further than that."

Earlier this month in another speech in Kentucky she said, "I told my husband he's got to come out of retirement and be in charge of this because you know he's got more ideas a minute that anybody I know."

CNN's Dan Merica contributed to this report.

CNNMoney (New York) First published May 16, 2016: 8:35 AM ET

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Cheryl Mills' filing asserts that audio or video clips would be more easily taken out of context than a transcript | AP Photo

By Josh Gerstein

05/25/16 05:42 PM EDT

Updated 05/25/16 06:30 PM EDT

Hillary Clinton's former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, is asking a federal judge to order a conservative group not to release audio or video recordings of a deposition Mills is scheduled to give Friday about Clinton's use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.

Mills' attorneys filed a motion Wednesday afternoon saying they fear that the group that sought Mills' deposition in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, Judicial Watch, will use any recording to distort Mills' testimony and advance the group's anti-Clinton agenda.

"We are concerned that snippets or soundbites of the deposition may be publicized in a way that exploits Ms. Mills image and voice in an unfair and misleading manner," attorneys Beth Wilkinson and Alexandra Walsh wrote in the motion submitted to U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan. "Ms. Mills is not a party to this action. She is a private citizen appearing voluntarily to assist in providing the limited discovery the Court has permitted. ... Judicial Watch should not be allowed to manipulate Ms. Mills testimony, and invade her personal privacy, to advance a partisan agenda that should have nothing to do with this litigation."

The motion says Mills has no objection to releasing the transcript of her testimony, although the State Department has said it may object if the testimony strays into areas that are supposed to be off-limits according to the judge's order permitting the deposition.

Mills' filing asserts that audio or video clips would be more easily taken out of context than a transcript but does not make entirely clear why written quotes could not be similarly distorted.

Sullivan issued an order shortly after the motion was filed giving the conservative group until noon Thursday to offer a formal response to the motion.

A spokeswoman for Judicial Watch said the group is evaluating the motion and will respond by the judge's deadline.

In addition to Mills, former Clinton deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin and computer technician Bryan Pagliano are scheduled to give depositions in the coming weeks. It's unclear whether any limits put on videos of Mills' testimony would be applied to their appearances, but if the judge agrees to Mills' request it seems likely the others would ask for similar treatment.

One current State Department official gave a deposition last week, and several others are expected to do so over the next month or so in accordance with an order Sullivan issued earlier this month.

Sullivan has left open the possibility of calling Clinton for a deposition in the case. Judicial Watch has already formally asked a judge handling a parallel case to order Clinton to give testimony, but there's been no ruling on that request.

UPDATE (Wednesday, 6:17 p.m.): This post has been updated with Sullivan's scheduling order, comment from Judicial Watch and additional context.

Josh Gerstein is a senior reporter for POLITICO.

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