The liberal media is still coming to grips with how Hillary Clinton could have possibly lost to Donald Trump. After all, she is the “smartest woman” in any room she enters. Or at least that’s what The Hill’s Amie Parnes told host Charlie Rose on his PBS show on Wednesday night.

Rose invited on Parnes and Roll Call columnist Jonathan Allen to promote their new book “Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign” and asked the two to dissect the reasons for Clinton’s loss. For her part, Parnes cited Russia, James Comey and lack of enthusiasm by Bernie Sanders voters. Not listed? Clinton’s own lack of guile.

In fact, when Rose asked Parnes what Clinton was going to do next, The Hill’s senior White House correspondent gushed: “She could do anything...She will always be the smartest woman in the room.”

The following is the relevant exchange as it was aired on the May 3 edition of PBS’s Charlie Rose show: