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On Russia-backed TV network, Donald Trump doubts Russian influence

On top of insisting that Putin is a great guy, Trump denigrated the US military’s high command.

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Despite Matt Lauer’s panned performance as moderator of the Commander-in-Chief Forum on September 7, NBC News chairman Andrew Lack praised the anchor in an email sent to staff on Friday afternoon. General David Petraeus, the senior American commander in Iraq, appeared before the U.S. Senate to testify about the troop surge in Iraq and push back against the troop withdrawal favored by Democrats. IAVA is also concerned about continuing commitment to the reforms begun within the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Trump told King he does not think the Russians were intervening in USA elections, a concern expressed by some US officials and by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Her tenure has brought us only war, destruction and death.

Meanwhile, Clinton’s campaign this week published a 250-page book detailing her various policy plans.

She continued: “I found it even surprising how clear and compelling the case was, where he quoted ISIS spokespeople rooting for Donald Trump’s victory because Trump has made Islam and Muslims part of his campaign, and basically, Matt Olsen argues, that the jihadists see this as a great gift”. Bernie Sanders, Univision’s Jorge Ramos repeatedly asked Clinton whether she would deport certain types of undocumented immigrants. Both agreed that would be a good idea, but neither kept their promises. In most the most important swing states she is on top. But she was neck-and-neck with him in Florida; and Mr Trump was slightly ahead in Ohio. For Trump to get through the evening without setting his hair (or anyone else’s) on fire would be an exhibit of steadiness more so than he has in the past.

Conway told CBS that Trump wasn’t “praising him so much as saying we’ll work with people, anybody who wants to help- help stop the advance of ISIS will be welcome in the Trump/Pence administration to do so”. If Clinton wasn’t a woman and just another male presidential nominee and Lauer had done exactly the same thing, it would merely have been a question of favoritism.

Clinton was more successful in turning the email scandal blade aside than she has been in the past. However, as time moved on and Lauer still had a number of questions prepared for her, it is possible that he interrupted her or cut her short.

She defended her actions in Libya by pointing out that the other choices were not particularly attractive.

Clinton called the North Korea test ‘outrageous and unacceptable, ‘ saying she supported imposing additional U.S. and United Nations sanctions. But those pols who don’t learn how to campaign in poetry never get the opportunity to govern in prose.

“I think we have to look at all of these issues – comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship would deal with a lot of these concerns, not just the 11 million people here: how we would regularize them, what kind of steps they’d have to go through”, Clinton said. Some commentators said afterward that she sounded defensive, but that line of criticism is absurd.

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“Bringing Islam into the definition of our enemy actually serves the goal of the radical jihadists and there’s a lot of evidence of that”, she said, citing a Time magazine op-Ee by Matt Olsen, formerly a director of the National Counterterrorism Center under President Barack Obama. The list is right now either overinclusive or irrational or both.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump criticises US policy on Russian government-funded TV