"I did something yesterday in Philadelphia, I almost want to apologize for it, but I want to use it as an example of the danger threatening our country," he said at an event in Erie, Pa.

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"I realized, finally, I was talking past her in the way she was talking past me. We got to stop that in this country. We got to listen to each other," Clinton added during his remarks

The former president said he was defending his wife and called it "interesting" that protesters were going after the crime bill he signed in the 1990s, pointing to his wife's record.