Hillary Clinton has yet another book out, and one of the first publicity stops was a 12-minute softball session on The Rachel Maddow Show on Monday. Late in the interview came a shocking line from Hillary about civilly or criminally charging right-wing “Deplorables” who spread misinformation.

As Hillary ranted about how "dangerous" Trump would be in a return to office, Maddow’s last question (of just three) was about the allegedly nonpartisan Biden Justice Department investigating Americans tangled up with Russian funders.

Maddow suggested: "Speaking of dictators, the Justice Department and the State Department have taken another -- a number of actions in the past several weeks striking actions to both call out and indict and take action against the Kremlin for their attempts at interfering in yet another presidential election cycle on Trump's behalf. The State Department has put out a $10 million reward for information leading to -- for information about people who are trying to -- about entities trying to illegally interfere in our election."

The question: "You feel like the U.S. Government is sort of starting to figure out how to do this and taking this seriously enough? Or do you think there's a far distance to go?"

For these two, the Russian collusion scandal never ended. Hillary talked about what Team Mueller did:

HILLARY CLINTON: I think it's important to indict the Russians, just as Mueller indicted a lot of Russians who were engaged in direct election interference and boosting Trump back in 2016. But I also think there are Americans who are engaged in this kind of propaganda. And whether they should be civilly or even in some cases criminally charged is something that would be a better deterrence because the Russians are unlikely, except in a very few cases, to ever stand trial in the United States….

So I think we need to uncover all of the connections. And make it very clear that you can vote however you want. But we are not going to let adversaries, whether it is Russia, China, Iran, or anybody else basically try to influence Americans as to how we should vote in picking our leaders.

Earlier, Maddow had the chutzpah to complain that the media has never been hard enough on Trump – because the Left grades the media on the results (impeached, removed, jailed) rather than on the harshness of what is actually written or said.

Hillary agreed: "The press is still not able to cover Trump the way that they should," Clinton told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. "They careen from one outrage to the next … I don’t understand why it’s so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is.”