The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago has said it is actively investigating the case.
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“We’re going to have to figure out how we deprive them of the oxygen of social media”. She will hold a town hall later this afternoon in Dover.
“I don’t know exactly what it would have or could have prevented”, she said. “We can not go on with losing 90 people a day to gun violence”.
Aides said that Sanders had not reached a judgment over whether Emanuel acted improperly, but Sanders’s statement seemed a clear attempt to set himself apart from Clinton, whose campaign this week voiced support for Emanuel, a former top aide to President Bill Clinton.
She said the nation needs to be vigilant and cooperative, “collecting and analyzing information”, and urged the government to “redouble our efforts to dismantle the global structure of terrorism”.
“If you are too risky to fly in America, you are too unsafe to buy a gun”, she said.
Clinton responded, “No matter what motivation these shooters had, we can say one thing for certain-they shouldn’t have been able to do this”.
Authorities need to finish their investigation, Clinton said, but she added that the situation “raises serious questions” about how Americans should be protected and how to ensure that the US has the best possible intelligence. “I know that we can save lives and we shouldn’t be conflating the two”.
The newly released emails also include one from Clinton’s advisor Sidney Blumenthal, sent just three days after the attack that calls then-GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney “contemptible on a level not seen in past contemptible political figures” and a “mixture of greedy ambition and hollowness”. It would aim to spend $275 billion to fix crumbling bridges, highways and airports, and would seek to create a national infrastructure bank that has been blocked by Republicans during President Barack Obama’s two terms.
The labor organization representing the United States building trades on Thursday endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, giving her the backing of national labor groups that represent more than 11 million workers.
But the fact that Clinton has secured such a large portion of organized labor’s support ahead of the first nominating contests in February shows the momentum she is gaining ahead of the general election in November 2016, when union workers are traditionally key on-the-ground foot soldiers for Democratic candidates.
David Parker, a carpenter’s union member from Sioux City who does caulking and panel work on commercial job sites, wore a Clinton T-shirt but said he still isn’t fully sold on her candidacy.
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“We can pray all we want”, she said.
