Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, referred to on Thursday as “a thug, a dictator, an autocratic ruler who has his opposition killed in the streets of Russia” has baffled many, including some in his own party. “We must decide here and now that Hillary Clinton will never be elected president”. RT America is one of several dozen companies that licenses the show, but neither King nor his producers are employed by them, she said. She also said she would emphasize the removal of the top leaders of the terror group “just like we did with (al-Qaeda leader) Osama bin Laden”.
Advertisement
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton meets with national-security advisers on September 9, 2016, in New York City.
“The nominee on the other side promises to do things that will make us less safe”, Clinton told reporters at a news conference on Friday afternoon.
A Clinton aide says the Democratic presidential nominee will do little more than phone into a fundraiser in San Francisco on Monday night.
Donald Trump’s campaign responded to a controversy stemming from his interview for Politicking Now with Larry King, which aired on a state-run Russian television network. After Trump appeared on King’s podcast, King repeatedly lobbied Trump for a TV interview, he told Burnett: “I’ve said, ‘You gotta do my TV show, ‘ he said, ‘I’m working on it, I’m working on it'”.
Critics of the network, which mostly targets audiences outside of Russian Federation, have described it as a propaganda arm of Putin’s government. “And the campaign has made clear that they will continue to call out the bigotry and racist values that Donald Trump has championed in this campaign”. “You just have to look at the maps”, Trump said.
In the national security forum on Wednesday night, Ms Clinton and Mr Trump sought to portray themselves as most fit to be commander in chief, with Mr Trump arguing that Mr Putin is a better leader than Mr Obama.
“All my friends support him”, he said, though adding that Trump’s character might not fit in with presidential duties.
RT America, which launched in 2005, is an increasingly influential propaganda network for the Russian Federation government. Experts inside and outside the government have pointed to Russian-backed actors as the source of the hack, which has been used to leak information in an attempt to embarrass Democrats.
Earlier on Friday, US Secretary of State John Kerry said that the United States is prepared to do what is needed to work with allies to defend against a growing threat from North Korea.
Advertisement
On his programs, he said, “Russia is criticized. Because the greatest threat of all would be terrorists getting their hands on loose nuclear material”, she said.
