"I don’t think we’re at war with all Muslims. I think we’re at war with jihadists," Hillary Clinton said. George W. Bush gets an attaboy from Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton dropped George W. Bush's name in discussing the nuances of her position and language used when discussing the threat posed by terrorism and extremism.

She made reference to the former president's visit to a Washington mosque in the wake of the 9/11 attacks in which the 43rd president remarked that “the face of terror is not the true faith of Islam."

"That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don’t represent peace. They represent evil and war," Bush said in September 2001.

On Saturday night, Clinton echoed Bush's words, saying that the U.S. is not at war with Islam in response to a question from John Dickerson about why she didn't use the words "radical Islam" to describe the threat.

"I don’t think we’re at war with all Muslims. I think we’re at war with jihadists," she explained, adding, "you can talk about Islamists who also are clearly jihadists."