The State Department has said it wants nationwide cease-fire between Assad’s military and the rebels, rather than another time-limited agreement like ones that failed before.
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Clinton, who appeared first on stage by virtue of a coin toss, found herself once again on the defensive over her private email server.
“I am not going to sit up here and do the tit-for-tat on what Donald said last night, or the night before, in Hillary versus Donald”, Ryan said.
“I don’t take these comments personally because it seems this is a phrase he’s used repeatedly, including directly at the pope and others, so I think it seems to be a habit”, Obama said Thursday. Undecided voter Pam Campos-Palma, for one, declared that she was completely appalled at the way Trump gushed over Putin’s leadership.
The Republican presidential nominee told the forum the Russian president “has been a leader far more than our president [Obama] has been”.
‘If he says great things about me, I’m going to say great things about him’.
Unusually for a United States presidential candidate, Trump made unflattering remarks about America’s military leaders.
“In the full clip he said, ‘That’s not the system I agree with, but he’s a strong leader there, ‘” Conway said.
“I have confidence that if, in fact, people just listen to what he had to say, look at his track record or lack thereof, that they’ll make a good decision”, he said.
The event offered a prelude to how Clinton and Trump will deal with questions on national security issues in their three upcoming presidential debates later in September and in October.
The official said the USA was eager to find an agreement quickly, mindful of the deteriorating conditions around the besieged city of Aleppo, but is wary of entering a deal that lacks teeth.
Mr Trump also said that, as a result of the confidential intelligence briefings he has been entitled to as an election candidate, he had been “shocked” at how the president, Mrs Clinton and current Secretary of State John Kerry had done “exactly the opposite” of what intelligence experts had told them.
Clinton said she regretted her decision as a USA senator from NY to vote in favor of the 2003 Iraq war and said Trump had been in favor of it as well.
“The generals have been reduced to rubble”, Trump said, before noting he had “faith in certain of the commanders”.
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On Tuesday in Tampa, Florida, Clinton seized on Trump’s statement the previous day that if he had been treated like Obama had been on arrival in China last week, he would have ordered the plane to return him home. I thought he was very professional, ‘ Trump said. They’re not too much of a factor.
