up next, gene sperling, former chief economic adviser for hillary clinton's presidential campaign, his remark support of "wall street journal" ceo forum. >> thank you very much. thank you, gene for joining us. >> thank you. >> playing cleanup, which given the events of a week ago has to be particularly after meaning for you tonight. but no, thank you for being with us. let's talk first to be good about this election. you were an adviser to the clinton campaign. you worked as john said, you are both in the bill clinton administration and their barack obama administration. you have been a very devise on economics, policy maker and advisor on economics come advisor on this clinton campaign. you heard elizabeth warren no doubt today talk to us about some of the issues. i don't want to pressure for postmortem but what went wrong in this campaign? why am i not talking to you now as the next treasury secretary? >> i think there will be lots of the considerations about campaigns in strategy. i think we had an excellent person in hillary clinton. i think her misfortune and maybe our misfortune

sperling, economic adviser from president clinton's campaign and president obama's handling of 2008 economic crisis was part of a recent "wall street journal" ceo and leaders forum. >> thank you very much. thank you, gene, for joining us. playing cleanup, which given events a week ago has a particularly apt meaning for you tonight. no, thank you for being with us. let's talk first, if we could, about this election. you were an adviser to the clinton campaign. as john said you were in the barack obama administration, key adviser on economics, policymaker and adviser economics. you're an adviser on this clinton campaign. you heard elizabeth warren talk about the issues. i don't want to press you for a postmortem but what went wrong in this campaign. why am i not talking to you now as the increases treasury secretary. >> i think there will be lots of considerations about campaign and strategy. i think we had an excellent person in hillary clinton. i think her misfortune and maybe our misfortune for progress i was is we had somebody who was perhaps extremely qualified vast experience at a moment in time that was not wings to fly but like a deep weight. i think my first campaign was the dukakis campaign in

jean sperling, chief economic advisor for hillary clinton's campaign and president obama handling of the 2008 economic crisis. part of a recent wall street journal and leaders forum. >>> thank you, gene, for joining us. playing clean-up, which given the events of a week ago, particularly apt. >> yes. >> apt meaning for you tonight. but no, thank you for being with us. so let's talk first if we could about this election, you were an advisor to the clinton campaign, you worked as john said, you were both in the bill clinton administration and the barack obama administration. you've been a very key advisor on economics, policymaker and advisor on economics. advisor on this clinton campaign. you heard elizabeth warren no doubt today. >> yes. >> about some of the issues. what -- give us, i don't want to press you for a postmortem, but what went wrong in this campaign? why am i not talking to you now as the next treasury secretary? >> well, i think there will be lots of considerations about, you know, campaigns and strategy. you know, i think we had an excellent person in hillary clinton. i think her misfortune and maybe our misfortune for progressives, we had somebody who was perhaps extr