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Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were grilled Wednesday night by veterans in a wide-ranging forum that touched on Clinton's email scandal and the fitness of both to be commander-in-chief. During the forum - where the candidates appeared separately - Trump suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been a better leader than President Obama.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton addressed questions Wednesday on issues from the Iraq War and veterans' health to Clinton's email use and Trump's statements about Vladimir Putin and sexual assault in the military, during an NBC forum. One audience member asked Trump: "As president, what specifically would you do to support all victims of sexual assault in the military?" "And the best thing we can do is set up a court system in the military.
Lauer's handling of the NBC News "Commander-In-Chief Forum" with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on Wednesday night was widely panned by journalists and pundits. The "Today" show co-host was criticized for spending too much time on Clinton's emails, lobbing softball questions to Trump, and neglecting to fact-check the Republican nominee when he falsely claimed to have opposed the Iraq War in 2002.
In the cruel and unforgiving foreign policy world of migraine headaches the next President is almost certain to inherit, which candidate would be better equipped to lead the nation? And what did Wednesday night's battle of the would-be commander in chiefs tell us about their views on national security issues that we didn't already know? Here are some key takeaways. Sure, time was short and it's hard to do justice to complex foreign policy issues in a rushed half hour per candidate format.
Maybe Hillary Clinton isn't going to be elected president after all. That's a thought that's evoking glee in some, nausea in others, terror in some and relief at the removal of an increasingly tedious figure from public view in still more.
Hillary Clinton was forced to defend her dubious handling of classified information on her private email server, her ill-fated vote authorizing the war in Iraq and her hawkish instinct to support intervention in Libya. Donald Trump dodged specifics on how he'd destroy the Islamic State group, delivered conflicting answers on how to improve veterans' health care and obscured his past support for the deployment of troops abroad.
U.S. Republican presidential nominee Dorald Trump leads his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by 19 points, 55 percent to 36 percent, among military and veteran voters, according to a poll issued Wednesday. The two candidates will each spend a half-hour Wednesady night talking about their military readiness at an event for veterans and active service members.
Tonight's the night! Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will each face questions on national security, military affairs and veterans' issues during tonight's Commander-in-Chief forum, presented by NBC News and the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and simulcast on MSNBC and NBC. Veterans in the audience, as well as moderator Matt Lauer, will press both candidates to make their case to serve as the leader of the United States and its armed forces.
If Donald Trump manages to read from a TelePrompter without going off script, he's being presidential. If he seems to suggest that he wouldn't round up all 11 million undocumented immigrants right away, he's moving into the mainstream.
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, is the wrong person to judge others by the company they keep - especially on the immigration issue, where her hands are far from clean. Just look at some of her closest associates.
A stunning new CNN poll came out this week, showing Donald Trump in the lead against Hillary Clinton, 45-43 percent. Naturally, the release of this new survey coincided with my own Rolling Stone feature describing Trump in a "freefall," having "lost his mojo."
Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even come close... Donald Trump has gone too far with his attacks on Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son Army Capt. Humayun Khan... A Donald Trump White House would be a disaster, and this goes way beyond any ideological difference.
The Dallas Morning News became part of the story yesterday when they announced that they would endorse a Democrat for President for the first time in 75 years. Their editorial is a fairly obvious recitation of the reasons that Donald Trump is manifestly unfit to serve as President, but the fact that the DMN editorial board saw fit to actually endorse Hillary Clinton, as opposed to merely endorsing Gary Johnson or some other third party candidate, is evidence that a growing number of conservatives find themselves obligated to choose actual sides in the Trump v.
Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto attends the opening ceremony of the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, China, September 4, 2016. Mexican Finance Minister Luis Videgaray listens during a news conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, June 24, 2016.
It took an act of Congress, but World War II pilot Elaine Harmon is finally being laid to rest on Wednesday at Arlington National Cemetery. MEXICO CITY - Treasury Minister Luis Videgaray has resigned, a ministry spokeswoman said Wednesday, the week after Donald Trump traveled to Mexico to meet with President Ernesto Pena Nieto.
Congress' Republican leaders face decisions on averting a federal shutdown, containing the Zika virus and impeaching the head of the IRS, with approaching elections pressuring the GOP to avoid doing anything that could damage its standing with voters. House Republicans were meeting behind closed doors Wednesday to hash out strategy on those and other issues.
Donald Trump said Tuesday night that Hillary Clinton's handling of private emails disqualifies her to serve as president. His own temperament, Trump said, was his "single greatest asset" and not the national security danger that Clinton alleges.
Schultz is one of the country's most politically outspoken chief executives, but until now he had not taken sides in the 2016 race between Democrat Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump. "Hopefully Hillary Clinton will be elected president," Schultz told Poppy Harlow in a Facebook Live interview ahead of the first-ever CNNMoney American Opportunity conference in New York.
Donald Trump said Tuesday night that Hillary Clinton's handling of private emails disqualifies her to serve as president. His own temperament, Trump said, was his "single greatest asset" and not the national security danger that Clinton alleges.
President Barack Obama's former senior policy adviser, David Axelrod, warned against the dangers of presidential candidate Donald Trump's rhetoric in feeding an ugly nationalist undercurrent in America on Tuesday night as a speaker in the Sondermann Presidential Symposium at Colorado College. "We have seen the emergence of a Republican candidate in Donald Trump who has exploited fear and resentment and anger to become the Republican nominee," Axelrod said to a large crowd in the Kathryn Mohrman Theatre at a free event.