How close are Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton?

As a student at George Washington University in 1996, Huma Abedin began working as a White House intern assigned to then-first lady Hillary Clinton. The two have been together since, with Abedin traveling the country as Clinton's "body woman" throughout her 2008 Democratic presidential campaign. She later became Clinton's deputy chief of staff at the State Department and still works for her transitional team, assisting the former secretary of state's move back into her private life.