Despite devoting two full segments, totaling over 11 minutes, to an interview with former Hillary Clinton Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri, on her Monday 9:00 a.m. ET hour show, NBC anchor Megyn Kelly failed to ask about the losing Democratic nominee’s recent bitter tirade against voters who did not support her in 2016.

Much of the lengthy exchange was devoted to promoting Palmieri’s new book, Dear Madam President, and her advice for women in the workplace. Ironically, while discussing topics like female empowerment, Kelly avoided pressing Palmieri on Clinton’s nasty claim that women who voted for Donald Trump only did so because they were being told to by their husbands.

Despite refusing to mention the offensive overseas rant that even Democrats have been forced to distance themselves from, Kelly did ask about the campaign, and even challenged Palmieri’s assertion that Clinton’s loss was fueled by sexism:

I want to challenge you on this. You wrote, “Underneath all the questions about wiping the server clean and deleting the e-mails lay the fundamental truth that there was something about Hillary Clinton that folks just didn’t trust.” Which I think is true. But then you say, “And that something was an intelligent, capable, ambitious woman in a position of power.” Having covered the race very closely for all that time, I would submit to you, it was so much more than that. There’s no question sexism played a role in her defeat, but I watched her at that U.N. press conference when she first addressed those e-mails and she said several, several things that were not true, Jen, as you know. “There was no classified information, I only used one device out of convenience,” which didn’t turn out to be true. There was tons of classified information, 110 e-mails, classified or top secret and so on. And these things kept unraveling and it led to a distrust that many people, yes, already had of her thanks to Whitewater and all of these other things. But you can’t ascribe even the majority of it to sexism, can you, fairly?

Palmieri maintained her fiction about the reason for Clinton’s defeat and portrayed her old boss as a victim:

I think that a man would have survived that. Okay? And I think that there was going to be something in the campaign, and it ended up to be e-mails. If it weren’t e-mails, it was gonna be something else. And I think that this is what the first woman, this sort of crucible, is what they had to go through – or she had to go through.

Laughably suggesting media bias against Clinton, Palmieri added: “And what I found with reporters on e-mails is the question just kept moving. The goal posts kept moving. And it just fundamentally, I think, there’s just something they find suspicion in a woman looking to succeed.”

Any point in that part of conversation would have been the perfect time for Kelly to grill Palmieri on Clinton smearing Trump voters as “backward,” but that question never came. Instead, the anchor went on to praise her guest’s book and urged to viewers to go out and buy a copy.

Here is a transcript of the political portion of the March 26 interview: