Trump didn’t speak often about the Iraq War before it happened, but what he said did not add up to the sort of opposition he describes today. Nobody has produced any evidence of Trump contradicting his support for the war before it started.
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But both candidates remain unpopular with a majority of the public. She quickly faced a barrage of questions about her email use at the State Department, where she used a personal email address and a private server. At an event geared toward national security and military veterans, the NBC co-host failed to ask a single question about Trump’s controversial remarks about Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan, Sen.
“Classified material has a header which has ‘top secret, ‘ ‘secret, ‘ ‘confidential”. “None of the emails sent or received by me had such a header”.
Liberals and conservatives were split about Lauer’s decision to open his questioning of Clinton with the controversy over her private email server.
Trump responded, “Well, I think the main thing is I have great judgment”. I have a very substantial chance of winning. “Always have, always will”.
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.
“I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure that’s the result”, Clinton said.
Donald Trump says that his plans to increase military spending won’t blow a hole in the federal budget because he’ll save and make money elsewhere.
Trump began by saying that it’s a “massive problem” and that “we’re going to have to come down very, very hard on that”.
“I have taken responsibly for my decision”, Clinton said. “My opponent has refused to take responsibility for his support”.
Lauer asked: “But you have your own plan?”
Clinton for her part, was more than happy to dive into the tortuous realm of Middle East policy, explaining how she would try to engage Iran on the nuclear deal, while also taking a tough line on some of the country’s other policies. The reality-TV stars insisted his “secret plan” to squash ISIS is not Ask The Generals.
Buzzfeed’s Andrew Kaczynski, who first tracked down the 2002 Howard Stern interview in which Trump expressed his support for the Iraq invasion, was more muted.
Matt Lauer underscored the identification of the presidency and war making in his introduction, declaring, “Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are vying not only to become president of the United States, but one of them will become the leader of the most potent military force the world has ever seen”.
“As Hillary Clinton has said, anyone you can bait this easily is not someone you can trust be Commander in Chief”.
The Republican presidential nominee said during a speech Wednesday in Philadelphia that he plans to fully offset the costs of his plans to expand military spending. Trump said he has “great faith in certain of the commanders” but that if he were president and convened a panel of generals, “They’d probably be different generals to be honest with you”.
Trump has been criticized in the past for seeming to heap praise on Russian President Vladimir Putin and other strongmen.
“Well, I think when he calls me brilliant, I’ll take the compliment, OK?” The average of nine recent polls compiled by RealClearPolitics has Clinton holding a 3.1 percentage point lead, within the margin of error and down from as much as 7.9 points in early August.
“The man has very strong control over a country”.
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Trump also touched his bumpy relationship with various foreign leaders. He stood by a previous comment that appeared to blame military sexual assaults on men and women serving together, but added he would not seek to remove women from the military. Trump defended it as “a correct tweet” before saying that there must be more prosecutions and consequences.
