John Yang has our report.
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NANCY CORDES: Clinton argued that’s the only explanation for some of Trump’s claims last night.
The NBC News forum, also called the “Commander-In-Chief” forum, was the first official news event before the first scheduled presidential debate on September 26 in NY.
NBC’s Commander In Chief forum was a bit of a disaster according to most observers, with Matt Lauer taking most of the blame for his unbalanced treatment of each candidate during the night.
Mr. Trump’s interview for the Russia-backed news outlet comes as he faces criticism for lavishing praise on Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Addressing a largely African-American congregation here, Clinton said, “I’ve made my share of mistakes” – and deliberately chose not to once utter Donald Trump’s name.
But I also know what I would have been thinking and writing if I had discovered that, say, Richard Nixon (who once threw me off his historic China trip when he discovered I was part of a team of Newsday reporters investigating his finances) made $17.6 million as easily as the Clinton family did. “And I think the economy is a much bigger problem as far as the president is concerned”.
HILLARY CLINTON: That’s not just unpatriotic and insulting for the people of our country, as well as to our commander in chief.
Meanwhile, Clinton’s campaign this week published a 250-page book detailing her various policy plans.
MAN: How can you expect those such as myself who were and are entrusted with America’s most sensitive information to have any confidence in your leadership as president when you clearly corrupted our national security? I communicated about classified material on a wholly separate system. She finished with the jaw-dropping claim that “I did exactly what I should have done and I take it very seriously, always have, always will”. Clinton insisted she would never put ground troops into Iraq again.
Throughout his White House campaign, Trump has repeatedly defied the conventional rules of politics, winning his party’s nomination despite a history of corporate bankruptcies and lawsuits that would have sunk a more traditional candidate.
“Clearly Hillary Clinton is trying to make that her pivot, that you can’t trust Donald Trump in any sense of sitting in that situation room”. “What I did learn is that our leadership, Barack Obama, did not follow what our experts. said to do”, Trump said. They have been reduced to a point where it’s embarrassing for our country. And every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed.
Noah took Lauer to task for not just his insane decision to focus so much time on Clinton’s emails that by the time he got an actual important military question he had to rush Clinton’s response, but also for Lauer’s refusal to call Trump out on his blatant lie about his Iraq position.
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JOHN YANG: Foreign policy also figured prominently today for libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, though he may have wished it hadn’t. “You know, I wish the first time it was done correctly”. It is a campaign that has bonded a majority of Americans behind just one prevailing verdict: We really don’t trust, respect or even like the presidential candidate we are going to end up voting for. Johnson would need to earn 15% support in polls to make the stage, an effort seemingly hampered when he failed to identify the war-torn city of Aleppo, Syria, in a live television interview.
