Hillary Clinton Looking Forward To Coffee With Sarah Palin

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin fished for a coffee date with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in her book "Going Rogue" -- and one day she will get it.

Clinton, in Singapore with President Obama, was asked about Palin's hat tip to her in her book, out this week. Clinton, a 2008 presidential candidate, and Palin, John McCain's running mate, have never met.

Palin writes, "Should Secretary Clinton and I ever sit down over a cup of coffee, I know that we will fundamentally disagree on many issues. But my hat is off to her hard work on the 2008 campaign trail. A lot of her supporters think she proved what Margaret Thatcher proclaimed. 'If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.'"

George Stephanopoulos, host of ABC's This Week asked Clinton if she would sit down with her.

Clinton replied, "Well, you know, I've never met her. Look, I'd look forward to sit down and talk with her. Obviously we're going to hear a lot more from her in the upcoming weeks with her book coming out and I would look forward to having a chance to actually get to meet her."

Clinton sidestepped Stephanopoulous asking if the media was fair to her.

"Well, you know George, I'll leave that for my book if I ever write another one," she said.

Over at NBC's Meet the Press, host David Gregory asked Clinton not only if she would have coffee with Palin-but if she would read her book. Clinton was even more enthusiastic about meeting Palin in this reply.

"Well, I absolutely would look forward to having coffee. I've never met her. And I think it would be, you know, very interesting to sit down and talk with her," Clinton said.

"And I've got more than I could say grace over to read, but obviously in the next week there's going to be a lot of attention paid to her book. And I'm sure that, you know, I'll see excerpts printed and, you know, snippets of interviews as I, you know, channel surf in, in Singapore and in Shanghai and in Beijing. But, you know, I'm ready to have a cup of coffee. Maybe I can make a case on some of the issues that we disagree on."