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Clinton, Trump spar over terrorism in wake of latest attacks

In interviews on Sunday morning, Conway highlighted a 2007 memo by Clinton strategist Mark Penn that suggested that she target Obama’s “lack of American roots” but never mentioned Obama’s birthplace, and cited a former McClatchy Washington Bureau chief as saying Friday that Sidney Blumenthal, a Clinton confidant, urged him to look into the president’s place of birth. “I have sat at that table in the Situation Room”.

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“Hillary made the decision immediately to let that person go”, she said.

Clinton said the country can meet the attacks in “concert with our values”. “I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons”, Trump said as his audience cheered. “I think they should disarm”.

“We will not defeat it with closed eyes or silent voices”, he said. “Give me a break”. Luntz said undecided voters tend to see the race as a matter of two bad options in Clinton vs. Trump.

Trump, at a campaign rally in Estero, Florida, blamed poor screening of immigrants for the attacks and criticized his opponent’s record.

“There are millions of law-abiding, peaceful Muslims.Let’s not get diverted and distracted by kind of campaign rhetoric we hear from the other side”. She insinuated that Islamic militants, particularly those affiliated with ISIS, are rooting for Trump to win the White House.

New York’s governor and mayor said Monday that the bombings in a Manhattan neighbourhood and a New Jersey shore town are looking increasingly like acts of terrorism with a foreign connection.

Asked on ABC’s “This Week” whether he would use the word “irredeemable” to describe many of Trump’s supporters, the Virginia senator and Clinton running mate said he wouldn’t. “I get that”, Clinton said in a speech that outlined a litany of promises that would improve young voters’ lives. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). On Monday, Clinton acknowledged the struggles she’s faced with millennials. Photo caption: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the James L. Knight Center, Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, in Miami. You want to take statements he made, positions he took as a private citizen when he was not running, and conflate them.

This election marks the first presidential campaign where millennials make up the single largest generation among US adults, having surpassed baby boomers during the past four years.

QUESTION: Secretary Clinton, the White House has labeled these lone wolf attacks a top concern and given these weekend’s events, what more specifically should be done and what would you do specifically beyond what President Obama has done?

Both met with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, while Clinton also met with the leaders of Ukraine and Japan. The leaders are in NY for the U.N. General Assembly.

As recently as January, Trump sounded skeptical on whether he now believed the president was a natural-born citizen eligible under the Constitution to be president.

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The Meyers live less than a mile from the site of a bomb blast Saturday night that injured 29 people.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton boards her campaign plane at Westchester County Airport in White Plains N.Y. Monday Sept. 19 2016