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Multiple missteps mark NBC forum with Trump, Clinton

The Democratic presidential nominee is set for the season premiere of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on September 19. Her attempts at humor don’t always land well, nor do her statements of admiration for some reporters. It’s Clinton’s third trip to Charlotte in about two months.

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Clinton didn’t seem bothered by the comment, but social media users were.

The press is getting more access to Clinton than it has in months, but there are strings attached.

Trump later continued: “If he says great things about me, I’m going to say great things about him”.

Clinton’s campaign warned reporters this week about covering rumors about her health problems and the coughing fits that have at times plagued her on the campaign trail.

Some online critics criticized Lauer for appearing to rush Clinton at points during the interviews and seeming to be tougher on the Democrat. Trump repeated his assertion the United States should have seized oil from Iraq.

Citing an article written by former director of the National Counter-terrorism Centre Matt Olsen, Clinton said the security expert draws from various sources in the article to suggest that ISIS leaders are “essentially throwing whatever support they have to Donald Trump”. Clinton said the remarks show Trump has “failed” at a key test of being the nation’s commander in chief. Trump’s supporters are especially enthusiastic: 75% say they’re more interested in this year’s face-offs than in previous years, compared with 58% of Clinton’s supporters.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton confronted their key weaknesses in a televised national security forum.

“I do not think the guy’s qualified to be president of the United States and every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed”, Obama said in what was an unusually caustic comment about the USA presidential contest while he was traveling overseas.

The FBI revealed that Clinton used 13 smartphones during her tenure, that an aide destroyed one phone with a hammer, and that Clinton’s computer specialist wiped the archive of emails from her private server even after Congress requested that all documents be preserved.

She said Trump has not thought about what kind of infrastructure and strategic planning such an operation will require.

“We saw more evidence that he is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be commander in chief”.

Clinton frequently recounts for voters her involvement in the operation as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state.

This was followed on the morning shows by retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn agreeing with Trump that that happened, except for the body language part, and the revelation that Chris Christie may or may not have spent that same meeting attempting to get a cranky Flynn to, quote, “shut up”.

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She also claimed that she didn’t want any “special treatment” because she was the first woman nominee of a major party to run for president.

Andrew Harnik