The event served as a preview for voters of the candidates’ trio of debates later this fall.
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Lauer also asked whether her use of a private email server showed a lack of judgment.
It will be moderated by Matt Lauer of NBC’s “Today” show.
James Comey, FBI director, had declared her “extremely careless” in her handling of sensitive material but did not recommend charges against her.
“Permitting there to be an ongoing civil war in Libya would be as threatening and as unsafe as what we are seeing in Syria”, she said. And Trump’s excited a lot of people and he scares a lot of others who’ll be asking ‘is this the guy I want protecting me and my family? “I think there will be a lot of Ph.D. theses and popular journalism writing on that subject for years to come”. If he’s able to win the white vote by that much, Clinton doesn’t have much chance of running away with the race in Florida.
She vowed never again to send ground troops into Iraq, adding the same goes for Syria.
“I have said that my voting to give President Bush that authority was, from my perspective, my mistake”, she said.
Retired Rear Admiral Philip Anselmo, who’s backing Trump, says it would unwise to telegraph that plan too far in advance.
“You know, I really don’t know”, he told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room” when asked who he believed would do a better job.
Trump also angered many in the military community with mocking remarks against US Senator and former prisoner of war John McCain for being captured in Vietnam.
Trump has drawn criticism for his praise for Putin as a strong leader, particularly after Moscow came under suspicion from USA officials as being behind the recent hacking of Democratic Party groups. Putin has returned in kind, calling Trump “a colourful and talented man.”
She was asked about a range of issues, including veterans’ affairs, her vote for the Iraq War and defeating ISIS.
He also said that he would demand payments from allies such as Germany and Japan towards the upkeep of the US military and promised a boost in the number of active US troops as well as ships and submarines in the US Navy. She also flushed out several national security priorities if she is elected, including trying to take out the leader of the Islamic State and vowing to defeat the extremist group without putting US troops on the ground in Iraq or Syria. Both candidates believe they have the upper hand, with Clinton contrasting her experience with Trump’s unpredictability and the Republican arguing that Americans anxious about their safety will be left with more of the same if they elect President Barack Obama’s former secretary of state.
“What was really scary was he keeps talking about the secret plan that he has to defeat ISIS”, Mook said.
He said if Putin “says great things about me, I’m going to say great things about him”.
“In the process, we will make government leaner and more responsive to the public”, Trump pledged.
A flood of Republican national security experts have instead chosen to back Clinton, helping bolster her case that Trump is broadly unacceptable.
For her part Clinton pointed out Tuesday that the electorate knows that they can not count on Trump to protect the United States and its military forces, because they see him as a danger for the country.
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“They view him as a danger and a risk”.
