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The fates of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, two former bitter rivals, are now inextricably bound together. Never will that be more clear than on Tuesday, when they campaign together for the first time in eight years in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Hillary Clinton did break the letter of the law. But unless she deliberately acted in a way to allow unauthorized people to have the classified materials, a prosecutor would almost always refuse to indict.
Deep into this New York Times puff piece about the wonders of a hypothetical Hillary Clinton presidency, we learn that "Democrats close to Mrs. Clinton say she may decide to retain Ms. Lynch, the nation's first black woman to be attorney general, who took office in April 2015."
In this June 7, 2016, file photo, 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.
Bill Clinton's personal conduct has exasperated liberals for roughly as long as his political success has exhilarated them. While some of them dismissed his get-together with attorney general Loretta Lynch as trivial, others saw it as yet another of his potentially damaging, impulse-driven unforced errors.
One of Hillary Clinton's biggest fans, Andrea Mitchell, was on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday to talk, among other things, about Clinton's week. It seemed as though she couldn't help but moan about the optics surrounding Bill Clinton's secret meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
In this June 7, 2016, file photo, 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.
In this May 13, 2016, file photo, former President Bill Clinton speaks while campaigning for his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, N.J. 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. Without question, one of the key assets in Hillary Clinton's second campaign for the White House is her husband, Bill.
The meeting Attorney General Loretta Lynch had with former president Bill Clinton on board her airplane in Phoenix is stunning. I wonder if at any other point during her time in office she has met privately with the spouse of another person who is the subject of a DOJ criminal investigation.
Sen. Cory Booker assured CNN State of the Union guest host Brianna Keilar that Hillary Clinton did nothing wrong in her e-mail scandal, and that there was nothing improper about Bill Clinton's meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Asked by Keiler whether Hillary Clinton could still "technically" be indicted despite rumors to the contrary, Booker said: "Technically, you or I could be as well."
MSNBC host Chuck Todd confronted Hillary Clinton after her meeting with the FBI amid an investigation into her email use at the State Department. "Why do you believe you did not violate the law?" Todd asked, referring to rules regulating government employees' handling of classified information.
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.