The incident unfolded as Clinton was moderating an Institute of Global Politics discussion at Columbia University, as an enthusiastic student attempted to get her to condemn Joe Biden's calls for funding wars in his national address days earlier.

"Can you please make a statement about President Joe Biden's speech?" a man in the audience shouted at Clinton even after she'd attempted to get him to quiet down.

"This is a clearly warmongering speech. President Joe Biden is calling for a hundred billion dollars of funding for Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine. And we're supposed to just bundle these together and pretend like we're going to rush to World War Three and we're all just going to let Hillary Rodham Clinton sit here…" he said, before Clinton shut him down.

"I'm sorry. You know, this is not the way to have a conversation," she told him, adding, "If you want to have a conversation, you're welcome to come talk to me afterwards."

"Okay, right. You're going to wait for me, right? I do not believe you," the man told the former First Lady.

"I will listen to you and I will respond to you," Clinton replied.

"I do not believe you. Respectfully, I do not believe you. And the fact of the matter is that the American people's voice are what need to be heard," the man continued. "Because our president is not speaking for the American people and neither are you."

The heated exchange then dovetailed into a discussion on whether the man's shouting was an exercise of his constitutionally protected right to free speech.