Early on in this primary season, Hillary Clinton paired TV talk show appearances with Republican debate nights. Her late night debut with Jimmy Fallon on September 16, 2015 coincided with a Republican debate as did her January visit to the show. She visited Stephen Colbert in October on the night of a Republican face-off in Boulder. Tonight she upshifted and appeared with Rachel Maddowwhile the GOP debate was in progress on another channel!
Hillary did not really say anything we have not heard before. She did call out the Trump campaign and Donald Trump on condoning and encouraging violence against protesters.
.@realDonaldTrump: condoning violence against protesters and press at your rallies is the real disgrace. #GOPdebate
She also specified that should a Trump presidency materialize, she will not leave her country – although she might yell at her TV.
Hillary was followed by Senator Warren who argued strongly and effectively for Congress to do its job and for the Senate to act on the president’s nominees.
Just about every Hillary supporter I know has something to say about Andrea Mitchell. Her negativity toward Hillary and her campaign inspires a good deal of distrust and distaste at best.
Jennifer Hall Lee has some questions and requests regarding Mitchell’s remarks at the MSNBC post mortem of the New Hampshire debate.
A biased media creates narratives to sway elections and choose our candidates.
MSNBC chief political correspondent Andrea Mitchell doubts the voters can understand the issues that affect their lives. Recently in New Hampshire, in the lead up to the primary there, she asked former President Bill Clinton this question:
“Do you think the voters will understand the issues?”
Mitchell’s question shows her classism. Is she implying that she understands the issues but we don’t?
Then, at the New Hampshire Democratic debate MNSBC’s Chuck Todd asked an odd question after Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders threw down over Clinton’s paid speeches on Wall Street:
“Are you willing to release the transcripts of all your paid speeches?”
Hillary was fierce tonight. No playing word games. No playing any games! Ready with every answer and a counterattack for every attack. But it was not all p*$$ and vinegar. She was gracious. She said she respects Bernie’s campaign and hopes to earn the support of his supporters if she wins the nomination.
Hillary consistently refuses to choose a single issue that she will push from day one. She does not see a rationale for, nor accept the necessity for, a single-issue agenda. She will have an ambitious agenda.
She said that, if elected, she will commission a top to bottom review of government agencies and departments – something like her QDDR at the State Departmenton a larger scale. I knew it! When she did the QDDR at State I said she would have done that in every department as POTUS.
The moderators asked some excellent questions and were even-handed. Nice job.
For the record, Hillary does not own the transcripts of the speeches she was paid to deliver. The organizations that hired her own those transcripts. A precious few made them public, and that is why some transcripts were made available here on these pages, but the decision to release the Goldman Sachs transcripts is not hers to make. She does not own those texts. They do. When this becomes a media battle making Hillary look shady, please remember that. They were never her personal property.
Some highlights from Hillary’s Twitter feed and my camera.
"I'm fighting for people who cannot wait for those changes, and I'm not making promises that I cannot keep." —Hillary at #DemDebate
As Rachel Maddow tells it, Hillary was in the house for her appearance with Jimmy Fallon and Maddow’s staff asked her for an interview. That is how Rachel got this one-on-one with Hillary Thursday Night. Hillary answered a lot of serious questions, demonstrating once again how prepared she is to tackle many issues even without prep time on talking points. She knows the issues and answers inside-out. One last question was whether a woman running mate is out of the question. She looked Rachel straight in the eye and said. “Absolutely not.”
Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton will sit down for an interview with CNN’s Alisyn Camerota that will air Tuesday just before President Barack Obama delivers his final State of the Union address.
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Excerpts from the interview will air at 7 p.m. on Tuesday on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront,” and the full interview will air on Wednesday during “New Day.”
TV host Amanda de Cadenet tells PEOPLE that when she sat down with Clinton on her talk show The Conversation for an interview airing Jan. 13 at 10 p.m. ET on Lifetime, she had one objective: to get to know Clinton not as a politician, but as a woman.
First stop: Broward County Community College in Davie, FL. Hillary spoke on a broad range of issues from college debt to universal pre-K to gun laws and Syria.
Insider watching from an undisclosed, secluded location.
Also in LV, painters endorsed Hillary.
An ice cream stop and a rally
The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and grassroots event in San Antonio
A town hall in Keene NH and an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN’s The Lead
A”Meet and Greet” in Nashua
The Alabama Democratic Conference in Hoover
The long-anticipated and very long day on Capitol Hill with the Select Committee on Benghazi. Eleven hours and she was still smiling and unbowed on exit.
It was not a debate. It was a forum with individual candidates. Rachel Maddow asked tough questions. They were not questions that could necessarily be answered by rehearsed slogans.
Martin O’Malley was first up. To Maddow’s light questions: If he had to catch his own food he would fish, but if by some miracle he becomes POTUS it seems he is not planning on joining Queen Elizabeth at Balmoral to fish since his least practical article of clothing is a kilt.
Bernie Sanders was up next. As to ISIS, he proposed what President Obama and both Secretary Clinton and Secretary Kerry have advocated all along – coalition. To Rachel’s light questions (not about underwear): Dream job, president of CNN. Most miss since technology has taken over. – paper books. Does not curse – on this show. Biggest misconception about him: People think he is grumpy, too serious. Not a light question, would he put a Republican in his cabinet? “Do you want me to destroy some nice guy’s political career?” He had a chance to talk a little about his civil rights history.
Hillary was last. In her initial comments: “How do we have a new deal?” Too close to Wall St.? “I represented NYC beyond Wall St. I went to Wall St. in 2007 said you guys have got to stop it!” To Rachel’s light questions: If you had time what language would you learn? “Spanish.” Introvert or extrovert? “Extro-introvert.” If you had to pick a GOP candidate as VP, who? “Whoever I name will get hurt. There are Republicans I could pick, just none of them.”
"I have been committed to and working on issues that I think are important…in particular to people who are marginalized." —Hillary
“I knew we’d end up talking about hair. That was a permanent. I have such straight hair. It took three times.”
On a final note: Hillary Clinton was the only one of the three who never felt it was necessary to raise her voice. She remained conversational throughout.
Jimmy Kimmel, who joined the Clintons at the CGI 2014 Closing Plenary,will host Hillary Thursday night marking her third appearance on the late night big three since launching her campaign. She is in southern California for some heavy-duty fundraising.
Friday night, Rachel Maddow will moderate a Democratic Forum from South Carolina.
Rachel Maddow announces that she has been selected to moderate the First in the South Candidates Forum with Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O’Malley, to be held in South Carolina on November 6th, co-sponsored by the Democratic Parties of 13 southern states.
Call it as you will. Hillary looked as comfortable as a person sitting upon a porcupine. Rachel Maddow is as inviting as a python and as inimical as the Republicans. Perhaps more so. Her “political miracle” of Obama was partially her doing. She dared to use those words in front of Hillary. It was offensive. I remain distrustful.
Maybe it’s me. At our local level I realized quickly that we were there trying to get a grassroots campaign going among people who never bothered to listen to Hillary in 2008 and really didn’t know anything about her. When Rachel said at the end that it was her first interview with a Clinton it occurred to me that she, likewise, had never listened to her. She spent the 2008 primary season shaking her head on Olbermann’s hour and chanting “Why doesn’t she just get out?” Dan Abrams and his guests were fair to Hillary, and for that he was relieved of his hour and they gave that slot to Maddow. So really, to her, Hillary was a stranger.
WOW! Could I possibly have been more on target? This email just came in. Now I have Obama’s guy explaining Hillary to me? They never bothered to learn a single thing about her in 2008. She was ready and the best one for the job then. I don’t even know what to say. Speechless. Not a single mea culpa among them. It was all a “political miracle” and a “glorious scene. ” Meanwhile all of this history was right there. Hillary’s history was written over years they never bothered to research until now.
During the most intense days of the 2008 primary, while I was serving as the Obama campaign manager, I would never have imagined writing this email.
But eight years later, I believe Hillary Clinton should — and will — be our next president. She will make an outstanding and worthy successor to President Obama. She will do big and important things — and we will all look back and be proud of whatever we did to help elect her.
Here’s what I (and so many fellow Obama campaign veterans) have learned about Hillary Clinton:
She doesn’t quit — and there were times I wish she had! But you have to deeply admire that strength and persistence. From her job at the Children’s Defense Fund to her work as First Lady of the United States, as a U.S. Senator for New York, and as the Secretary of State, she’s been working everyday to make people’s lives better.
You won’t find anyone in this race more determined than Hillary to make sure every single American has a fair shot to live up to their potential. There is no one more prepared, more diligent, or more ready with detailed plans for how to make it happen.
Hillary will protect President Obama’s legacy — and like President Obama before her, she will make history. I look forward to the day my daughter, who was born a little more than 48 hours after the glorious scene in Grant Park in 2008, will know just as well as my son that she can grow up to be anything she wants, even president of the United States.
The stakes in this election are enormous. The difference between Hillary and a Trump, Carson, or Rubio could not be more profound. Once again, we need a president who understands the challenges we face — someone who can and will do something about it.
Hillary Clinton is that leader. And if we step up to fight alongside her, she’ll be the next president of the United States. Chip in to help make it happen:
She may not be campaigning this week, but that will not keep Hillary Clinton off the TV screen. Her appearance with Fallon will re-air tonight. It is a must-see. Thursday, C-SPAN will cover her long-awaited testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi.
Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi, which is investigating the events surrounding the 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate there, in which Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others died.
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"... ratify the Law of the Sea Convention, which has provided the international framework for exploring these new opportunities in the Arctic. We abide by the international law that undergirds the convention, but we think the United States should be a member, because the convention sets down the rules of the road that protect freedom of navigation, provide maritime security, serve the interests of every nation that relies on sea lanes for commerce and trade, and also sets the framework for exploration for the natural resources that may be present in the Arctic." -HRC, 06-03-12, Tromso Norway
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