Trump then attacked President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Obama’s first secretary of state, for their roles in the USA troop withdrawal from Iraq.
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Pence also defended Trump’s comments that “the generals have been reduced to rubble” under the Obama administration, responding to critics that interpreted those words to mean Trump was putting down the U.S. military.
“I think it’s inarguable that Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader in his country than Barack Obama has been in this country”, Pence told CNN’s Dana Bash in an interview.
“If he says great things about me, I’m going to say great things about him”, Mr Trump said of the Russian president.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump once famously said he could shoot someone on New York’s Fifth Avenue and not lose voters.
Trump’s effusive admiration for Putin, who Sen. The statement drew broad criticism, prompting him to take a more disciplined approach to campaigning.
Trump has been focusing on his national security policy in the past few days, including announcing that his plan to combat ISIS would include ordering military generals to put together a plan to defeat the terrorist group in his first 30 days.
Trump also flirted with revealing what he had been learning in classified intelligence briefings given to him by US officials because he is the Republican nominee.
“I love that question”, Trump said to a veteran who requested specifics on how the candidate would turn his words into actions. “It’s a very different system, and I don’t happen to like the system”.
Lauer asked Trump whether he knows more about ISIS than President Barack Obama’s generals, a statement he has previously made.
“I will end this legacy of failure and strongly defend the interests of the United States”, he said.
Clinton’s section started out with a long segment about her use of a private e-mail server. “An absolute rock steadiness mixed with strength to make the best decisions”, she told NBC News’ Matt Lauer during a candidate forum Wednesday night.
JOHN YANG: Last night, a former Naval officer challenged Clinton about her handling of classified material.
Appearing on the second half of the hour-long show, Trump quickly abandoned Lauer’s entreaties to avoid attacking his opponent and focus on what he would do if elected president on November 8.
In his interview, Trump said he wants to win the election for the evangelicals.
Trump quickly abandoned Lauer’s entreaties to avoid attacking his opponent and focus on what he would do if elected president in November.
“There were no discussions about any of the covert actions in process being determined about whether or not to go forward”, she said. “We need change, and we need it fast”. And just this week, The New York Times reported Putin’s biggest Ukrainian ally secretly set aside $12.7 million in cash payments for Manafort. “Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well”, she said.
Trump’s latest comments come as his campaign has tried to temper his public comments, to somewhat mixed-results.
On the USA intervention in Libya in 2011, Clinton rejected Trump’s criticism of her support for the effort as secretary of state.
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“And we’ve got to do it with air power”. “I won’t stop calling out bigotry and racist rhetoric in this campaign”, Clinton said. Already the path is much more hard for the Republicans.
