Hillary Clinton says she's a 'progressive who gets results'

During CNN's Democratic Town Hall in New Hampshire on Wednesday night, Hillary Clinton recalled her decades of experience both in and out of politics, telling the audience she is "somebody who wants to actually produce a real difference in people's lives. I am a progressive who gets results, and I will be a progressive president who gets results."

Clinton said she would would defend the Affordable Care Act, which she called "hard fought for and hard won." She disagrees with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), she said, because she doesn't think "we should start over, that we should throw our country into a contentious national debate about heath care again. We're at 90 percent coverage. I'm going to fix what needs to be fixed. We're going to move from 90 to 100, which is a lot easier than starting from zero and getting to 100."

The next president could appoint as many as three Supreme Court Justices, and Clinton said she would look for "people who understand how the real world works, who don't have a knee-jerk reaction to support business, to support the idea that money is speech." Clinton vowed to "preserve Roe v. Wade" and to go further to "end discrimination against the LGBT community." She also said going after Wall Street and the big banks isn't enough, and "I take seriously the obligation I would have as president once again to try to get the deck unstacked, get the odds favoring the average American again."

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Regarding the Islamic State, Clinton said the U.S. should continue to use special forces, but she would "not send troops to Iraq or Syria," and in response to a question about legalizing marijuana, Clinton said she'd move it from a schedule 1 drug to a schedule 2 in order to do "much more with respect to research and what it can do to help people." Speaking to a mother of five girls in the audience, Clinton said it's still the case that there are "challenges and obstacles to young women's ambitions," but she is "going to try to break the highest and hardest glass ceiling. I hope it splinters completely, and I hope for your daughters, it opens doors that may not be open for them right now." Catherine Garcia