Lauer received harsh feedback – most of it from media critics and supporters of Clinton, the Democratic nominee – after he failed to press Trump on his insistence that he was opposed to the Iraq war. “But it’s ABSURD that he started off with Trump, ‘Why should you be commander in chief?'”
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But Trump stood by a 2013 tweet. At the forum, he said the best way to address sexual assault inside the armed services would be to “set up a court system within the military” – something that has existed since the Revolutionary War. Lauer responded with: “So this should have been expected and the only way to fix it is to take women out of the military?”
“There was one thing that shocked me”, Mr Trump said. “No not to take them out, but something has to happen”. The rough reception given Matt Lauer for his back-to-back interviews with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump laid bare a disagreement over whether journalists who moderate presidential debates should call candidates out for telling lies. “They have been reduced to a point that’s embarrassing for our country”, Mr Trump said at NBC’s “Commander-in-Chief” forum in NY attended by military veterans.
Speaking to reporters Thursday morning, Clinton suggested she agreed with Democrats who say she is being held to a different standard in the White House race.
“So is the plan you’ve been hiding this whole time – asking someone else for their plan?”
Yet the Republican nominee’s operation on Thursday indicated no discomfort with the mounting criticism, with Trump running mate Mike Pence echoing the distinction made between Putin and Obama.
The Clinton and Trump totals don’t just reflect campaign fundraising; they also include money raised by each candidate’s joint fundraising committees.
King asked, “You personally don’t dislike her?”
“I have a plan …” “I have a very good chance of winning”.
Clinton announced that said she will convene a bipartisan meeting of national security leaders on Friday. “We are commanded”, she said. “They’ve gotta now get into Mosul”.
Clinton’s campaign acknowledges that some of her liabilities stem from self-imposed errors, including her difficulty explaining the decision to install a private email server in her NY home.
“I make no excuses for it”, she said. “But every part of our government had to deal with questions, secretary of state’s office was first and foremost, so there are ways of talking about the drone program”. Clinton had earlier mentioned a 2002 radio interview with Howard Stern in which Trump said he favored the us invasion.
Trump suggested at the event in which he and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton made back-to-back appearances that USA generals had been stymied by the policies of Obama and Clinton, who served as the Democratic president’s first secretary of state.
Most recent polls have shown Donald Trump trailing Hillary Clinton in the swing state of North Carolina, but a new poll shows the Republican ahead by three points. “I am asking to be judged on the totality of my record”.
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“I think that when you serve in the armed forces, that’s a very special situation”, Trump said. “I don’t view myself as cold or unemotional”.
