Clapper said he had participated in a White House meeting with the transition teams of Clinton and her Republican rival Donald Trump, and said despite what he called “a lot of catastrophizing”, the upcoming presidential transition was going to be “okay”.
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Putin is “very much of a leader”, Trump said in a televised interview, where he and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton were separately grilled over their national security and military credentials. Trump said Putin’s praise won’t affect negotiations.
“We’ve had problems of cyber intrusions from Russian Federation and other countries in the past”, Obama said, “and we’re moving into a new era here where a number of countries have significant capacities”. We must learn what led us down that path so that it never happens again.
She said USA policies under her leadership at the State Department had helped promote security.
‘The man has very strong control over a country, ‘ Trump said when asked about Putin’s past praise for him at a commander in chief forum on NBC Wednesday night. I would certainly not do it again.
Clinton was grilled over her handling of classified information while using a private email server during her tenure at the State Department.
The event brought together the meticulously prepared Clinton, 68, the wife of former President Bill Clinton, and Trump, 70, a NY businessman whose brash, freewheeling style has allowed him to dominate the headlines during his campaign. “They have been reduced to a point that’s embarrassing for our country”, Trump said at NBC’s “Commander-in-Chief” forum in NY attended by military veterans. She said she had “an absolute rock steadiness” to be able to make tough decisions.
President Obama: “What we can not do is have a situation in which suddenly this becomes the wild, Wild West”.
The air campaign started slowly, but ISIS now appears to be on a back foot, having suffered tens of thousands of casualties and losing numerous important towns it once controlled across its self-declared “caliphate”.
“I’m more than ready”, she said of the intense two-month battle ahead as she attempts to become the first female USA commander in chief.
Currently, America has thousands of troops in Iraq and hundreds in Syria, but their mission is to train local forces and not engage in direct combat with ISIS.
Trump also got asked about the top level security briefings he is now receiving.
“I think under the leadership of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton the generals have been reduced to rubble”.
Highlighting the intensity of the fight for battleground states like Ohio, Trump was already on the ground in Cleveland for his own campaign events when Clinton landed, their planes parking about two football fields apart on the tarmac.
The documents, released just before the start of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, were widely believed to be the work of Russian hackers hoping to cause trouble for Democrats during their big week.
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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.
