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Former President Bill Clinton, left, stands on stage with his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, after she spoke during a presidential primary election night rally in New York. His popularity among Democrats is off the charts, he's a fundraising powerhouse and his administration is hailed by many as a high-water mark of economic prosperity.
Republicans were quick to respond Saturday to news that Hillary Clinton spent the morning at FBI headquarters being questioned by investigators who are looking into whether her use of a private email account and a home-based computer server while serving as secretary of State compromised classified information. "FBI should have read Clinton her Miranda rights and taken her into custody,'' tweeted conservative radio talk show host Mark Levin.
Reports were confirmed on Saturday morning that the Federal Bureau of Investigation interviewed Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton for over three hours at FBI headquarters regarding the unsecured email server that she used and sent classified information over while Secretary of State. Clinton campaign spokesman Nick Merrill released the following statement regarding the three and a half hour meeting : Secretary Clinton gave a voluntary interview this morning about her email arrangements while she was Secretary.
Long regarded as having one of the shrewdest political minds among recent presidents, Bill Clinton has at times angered and alienated Democrats and Republicans alike while campaigning for his wife, Hillary Clinton. His apparently spur-of-the moment decision to chat this week with Attorney General Loretta Lynch even as her agency is overseeing a sensitive investigation of his wife's use of a private email server as secretary of state was only the latest in a series of loose-cannon episodes.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch, conceding that her airport meeting with former President Bill Clinton this week had cast a shadow over a federal investigation of Hillary Clinton's personal email account, said Friday that she would accept whatever recommendations career prosecutors and the FBI director make about whether to press charges in the case. Former President Bill Clinton, shown here May 5, declined to comment on Attorney General Loretta Lynch's remarks about their ... "I will be accepting their recommendations," Lynch said in an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado.
" An impromptu meeting between Bill Clinton and the nation's top cop could further undermine Hillary Clinton's efforts to convince voters to place their trust in her, highlighting perhaps her biggest vulnerability. Attorney General Loretta Lynch expressed regret on Friday that she met with the former president earlier in the week at the Phoenix airport while the Justice Department's investigation into Hillary Clinton's email practices nears a conclusion.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch is expressing regret that she sat down with Bill Clinton while his wife is under federal criminal investigation, a chance encounter she acknowledges "cast a shadow" on the public's perception of a case bound to influence the presidential campaign. "I certainly wouldn't do it again," Ms.
But of course Bill Clinton wants his wife to become president of the United States and make history as the nation's first female commander in chief. Plus, it would be tons of fun to return to the White House as the first husband.
"This was, as I understand, a chance meeting where they ran into each other on the tarmac of an airport," he said in clip previewing this Sunday's "Meet the Press" on MSNBC . "This wasn't a, 'I called you up and can we meet next Wednesday at 3 o'clock?'" Perez added.
The nation's top law-enforcement official and the former president and husband of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee - who is under federal investigation - had a talk. Rather than conceding that such a private encounter is at the very least a conflict of interest, Democrats preemptively complained about the "optics."
"When I first heard that yesterday afternoon, I actually thought they were joking," he said Thursday on Fox News' "Hannity." "I said, 'No way, there's just no way that's going to happen,'" Trump told host Sean Hannity.
Republican Donald Trump talked trade at a shuttered New Hampshire factory on Thursday, putting a more personal spin on his vow to rip up the nation's trade deals and impose new tariffs in an effort to revive local manufacturing jobs. Speaking to a small, invitation-only crowd outside the closed Osram Sylvania plant, which used to manufacture lighting products, Trump again called for backing away from decades of U.S. policy that encouraged trade with other nations.
In this June 14, 2016 file photo, Attorney General Loretta Lynch speaks in Washington. Former President Bill Clinton spoke with Lynch during an impromptu meeting in Phoenix, but Lynch says the discussion did not involve the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email use as secretary of state.
Donald Trump has hired the chief of staff of U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy to run his campaign operation in Wisconsin. Trump's campaign confirmed to The Associated Press on Thursday that Pete Meachum has been hired to start immediately as state director.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton met privately on Monday in Phoenix, Arizona, after the two realized they were on the same tarmac, an aide to Clinton said. The meeting took place at an Arizona airport ahead of the public release Tuesday morning of the House Benghazi committee's report on the September 11, 2012, attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya.
North America's leaders, at their summit in the Canadian capital, are confronting a rising tide of economic protectionism and nationalism. President Barack Obama arrived in Ottawa for talks on Wednesday with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
Howard Baker, then a senator from Tennessee, captured the essence of the Watergate scandal that took down the presidency of Richard M. Nixon in these simple words : "It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble." Nixon resigned 42 years ago, but Baker's words have lived on in Washington, because the impulse to conceal a misdeed is shared by politicians of every persuasion, including Hillary Clinton, who is now running for the office Nixon vacated.
John Baer has written about politics and government for the Daily News since 1987. Neither subject ever fails to provide him with stories of policies and politicians walking on or skirting by paths to perdition.
In this June 22, 2016, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks in New York. From the start, TrumpA's call A'for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United StatesA' has been a signature of the RepublicanA's campaign for president.
'Don't do this. They're our kids!': Husband pleaded with gun-loving wife before she slaughtered their two daughters on his birthday in family row at their Texas home, before cops shot her dead Shock polls put Hillary TWELVE points ahead of Trump and winning battleground states of Florida, Wisconsin, Colorado and even North Carolina High school track and field star, 18, impales himself through the eye with a JAVELIN when he tripped and fell face first onto the spear in freak accident Father-of-two is charged with MURDER after prosecutors say his 'stalking and harassment led to his girlfriend's suicide' Secret cocaine binges and jogging for sex: Bombshell secret service agent's book accuses Bill Clinton of using morning exercise to cover up his affairs and says administration staffers snorted drugs Look who's coming to dinner: Trump dines with Rupert Murdoch and wife Jerry Hall at posh ... (more)