Donald Trump has suggested that Russian Federation should hack Hillary Clinton in order to retrieve the lost emails that have haunted her since she began her presidential campaign. If I like their plan, Matt I’m not going to call you up and say, “Matt we have a great plan”.
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The President said an cyber “arms race” could develop if those countries engage in a free-for-all.
Answering a question from Laurer, Trump said the CIA officials who gave him two classified intelligence briefings conveyed to him behind closed doors their unhappiness that President Barack Obama had not followed the advice of anti-terrorism experts on an unspecified issue of national security.
If conclusive evidence emerges that cyberattacks on US elections systems originated in Russian Federation, they will be assumed to have been directed or at least sanctioned by Putin, according to Cardin.
Rival Hillary Clinton has been hammering Trump for his views on Putin and Russian Federation, though the issue has subsided somewhat since the departure of Trump’s former campaign chair Paul Manafort, who had ties to the former pro-Moscow Ukrainian regime.
Russian Federation has denied that it carried out any cyber intrusions in the United States.
Clinton began the NBC forum saying her long experience in government as a US senator and secretary of state made her uniquely qualified to serve as president.
At the start of his turn on the stage, Mr Trump, who earlier on Wednesday vowed to spend billions of extra dollars to build up the USA military, struggled when asked to explain what experience he had had in his own life to qualify him to lead America on the world stage.
On the topic of the Iran nuclear deal – something many conservatives have decried as too generous to Iran – Clinton defended the Obama administration’s handling, saying it “put a lid” on Iran’s nuclear program, which she said was rapidly advancing when Obama came into office.
Trump quickly abandoned Lauer’s entreaties to avoid attacking his opponent and focus on what he would do if elected president in November.
He stood by a comment he made three years ago, appearing to blame such assaults on the decision to allow women to serve in the forces.
Donald Trump lavished more praise on Vladimir Putin in Wednesday’s NBC News’ Commander-In-Chief forum, even after moderator Matt Lauer brought up the numerous ways Russian Federation as sought to undermine USA interests.
The event brought together the meticulously prepared Clinton, 68, the wife of former President Bill Clinton, and Trump, 70, a NY businessman whose brash, freewheeling style has allowed him to dominate the headlines during his campaign.
On the US intervention in Libya in 2011, Clinton rejected Trump’s criticism of her support for the effort as secretary of state.
“Permitting there to be an ongoing civil war in Libya would be as threatening and as risky as what we are seeing in Syria”, she said.
Clinton responded, saying she did handle classified information that came to her properly, but never in her emails did she receive something marked with the classified “header” that normally accompanies official government communications that require security clearance.
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FILE – Ohioans make their choices known during early voting in the US presidential election in Medina, Ohio, Oct. 26, 2012. “It’s not going to get him anywhere”. And she was adamant that the United States and its partners had made the world safer by “putting the lid” on Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
