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 / Updated By Kendall Breitman 
 
 Almost four months after her stunning defeat, Hillary Clinton on Thursday primarily blamed her loss to President Donald Trump on four factors that were beyond her control. 
 
 The former Democratic presidential candidate cited Russian meddling in the election, FBI Director James Comey's involvement toward the end of the race, WikiLeaks' theft of emails from her campaign chairman, and misogyny. 
 
 Clinton’s comments came during her first post-election interview at Tina Brown’s eighth annual Women in the World Summit in New York City. She was questioned by Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times. 
 
 She largely cited these factors for her defeat: 
 
 - Russia. "A foreign power meddled with our election," she said, labeling it "an act of aggression." She called for an independent, bipartisan investigation into the Kremlin's involvement and said the probe should examine whether there was collusion with the Trump campaign. 
 
 - Misogyny. "Certainly, misogyny played a role. That has to be admitted," she said. Clinton added that "some people — women included — had real problems" with the idea of a woman president. 
 
 - Comey. Clinton cited as damaging to her campaign his unusual decision to release of a letter on October 28, less than two weeks before Election Day, that said he was looking at additional emails related to the FBI probe of the former secretary of state's use of a private server. 
 
 - WikiLeaks. Weeks of disclosures of stolen emails from the personal account of then-Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, were particularly harmful, Clinton said, adding that it "played a much bigger role than I think many people yet understand." 
 
 She said the combination of Comey's actions and the WikiLeaks' revelations "had the determinative effect.” 
 
 About her own role, she said, "There were things I could have done better." 
 
 While Clinton said there were “lots of contributing factors” to her failure to secure the nation’s highest office, she called Russia’s interference the “weaponization of information.” 
 
 “I didn’t fully understand how impactful that was and so it created doubts in people,” Clinton said. “But then the Comey letter coming as it did — just 10 days before the election — really raised questions in a lot of people.” 
 
 Two days before the election, Comey announced that none of the emails would lead to criminal charges — leaving in place the FBI's determination from July. Officials told NBC News that nearly all of the emails were duplicates of emails that had been examined already. 
 
 Kristof also asked Clinton about Trump. 
 
 “I don’t understand the commitment to hurt so many people that this administration, this White House, seems to be pursuing,” Clinton said, pointing to the immigration ban, the slashing of U.S. funding for the UN Population Fund, and the failed health care bill. 
 
 “What they did or tried to do on the health care bill, which I will confess to this — having listened to them talking about repeal and replace for 8 years, or 7 years now, and they had not a clue what that meant," she said. "They had no idea. I don’t know that any of them had ever even read the bill.” 
 
 Clinton, who is writing a book that she said would examine her defeat last year, said she doubted she would ever seek public office again. 
 
 "Devastating," was how she described her loss. 
 
 Watch the full Clinton remarks here: ||||| Story highlights Clinton has two events in New York Tuesday 
 
 One is a Planned Parenthood dinner 
 
 New York (CNN) Hillary Clinton delivered her most forceful critique of President Donald Trump's 2016 victory on Tuesday, taking personal responsibility for her failed campaign but also pointed to the timing of a letter from FBI Director James Comey and Russian interference as factors. 
 
 "If the election had been on October 27, I would be your president," she told CNN's Christiane Amanpour at a Women for Women International event in New York. 
 
 "I take absolute personal responsibility. I was the candidate, I was the person who was on the ballot. I am very aware of the challenges, the problems, the shortfalls that we had," Clinton said, before adding that she was "on the way to winning until a combination of Jim Comey's letter on October 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me and got scared off." 
 
 Clinton, who is currently writing a book that partly reflects on her 2016 loss, added, "The reason I believe we lost were the intervening events in the last 10 days." 
 
 The event marks the latest where Clinton, in a stinging rebuke to Trump, both blames herself for the 2016 loss but also casts the current President as someone aided by outside factors, including the Russian government. 
 
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– Hillary Clinton takes "absolute personal responsibility" for losing the 2016 presidential election, CNN reports. "Did we make mistakes? Of course we did," the Guardian quotes Clinton as saying during a Women for Women event Tuesday in New York City. "Did I make mistakes? Oh my gosh, yes." She added: “It wasn’t a perfect campaign. There is no such thing." Still, despite "a barrage of negativity, of false equivalency," Clinton says she was "on the way to winning" until James Comey's Oct. 28 letter to the FBI and "Russian WikiLeaks" frightened voters, CNBC reports. "If the election had been on Oct. 27, I would be your president," Clinton said. Those close to Clinton say she's still locked in on Russian interference during the election. The US government now says the Russian government was responsible for hacking John Podesta's emails and releasing them through WikiLeaks just hours after President Trump's damaging Access Hollywood tape broke. Clinton sees the timing as highly suspicious. Clinton added that misogyny also "played a role" in how the election turned out. Though, she pointed out she did win 3 million more votes than Trump. It doesn't appear Clinton is currently planning another run for office. "I am now back to being an activist citizen and part of the resistance," she said.