On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton talked to CNN’s Brianna Keilar for her first national interview as a 2016 presidential candidate. But “people should and do trust me”. Yet despite direct congressional inquiry, she refused to inform the public of her unusual email arrangement.
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Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton has said hacking by countries such as China and Russian Federation posed a broad threat to US security and business, and the federal government had not done enough to protect US information. And why shouldn’t it?
Her interlocutor was known to be sympathetic, and Clinton indeed enjoyed plenty of softball questions that essentially asked her to finish sentences or fill in obvious blanks.
She was “very disappointed” in Trump for his comments about immigrants and the Republican Party for not condemning his remarks more quickly, said Clinton.
Revelations that Clinton conducted government work through a private email server maintained at her New York home have hounded the Democratic frontrunner. Everything I did was permitted. “By her own admission she did not delete or destroy emails until the fall of 2014, well after this Committee had been actively engaged in securing her emails from the Department of State”.
Clinton would prefer to duck these issues.
She blamed the “barrage of attacks that are largely fomented by and coming from the right” for fueling a perception that trust is an area of vulnerability for her.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-South Carolina) established the select committee on Benghazi in May 2014 to investigate the 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi, during which four Americans died, including the United States ambassador.
Hillary Clinton can tell a lie without blinking or without her eyes cutting to the ground, but her lies are smug. Her answers were downright Clinton-esque: that is, she denied the obvious and didn’t give an inch.
It was a deft political maneuver, but not almost as adroit as what would come next. They want this debate. “If he did at one time, he no longer does”.
Recalling his participation in various bipartisan “gangs” that worked on immigration reform – “I’ve been in every gang you can be in in the Senate”.
Clinton has said any immigration legislation needs to include a path to “full and equal citizenship”.
The other position she took wasn’t terribly hard to stake out, either. “Out of an abundance of caution and care, you know, we wanted to send that message unequivocally”.
“She added, “[A]t the end of the day, I think voters sort it all out.
“There is absolutely no evidence of these outlandish claims against me and that will die as it should”, she said. “This man already had been deported five times, and should have been deported at the request of the federal government”.
“I’m a little surprised that he is surging as early as he is”. One of them is the assumption that she’s acting in bad faith. Democrats still maintain a positive view of her, but Republicans believe it will weaken her in a general election. “Trump directly draws from that hyper-populist pool, and Cruz realizes it, since he seems to be the last Republican still not knocking Trump’s block off”.
Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill told CNN that Clinton understood the question to be if she was under subpoena when the emails were deleted, this past December.
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Asked by Keilar which “Saturday Night Live” actress best satirizes her on the NBC program, Clinton demurred, but offered praise for both Amy Poehler, who impersonated her in 2008, and Kate McKinnon, who has done the job so far in this campaign cycle. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass) plus majority support among African American voters.
