“In this business that we are in, this awful rotten business of politics, there’s no reason why you can’t understand that we, being humans, are going to make mistakes sometimes – and you distance yourself from the words,” Buchanan said Thursday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.”

But, she added, “You don’t distance yourself from the person.”…

“Hilary has been enormously loyal and committed to this president, and to have them, to spend a day just trying to distance themselves, say she’s not an adviser, she’s not this,” Buchanan said. “That is unacceptable to me. She has been too good to them, for them to treat her this way.”