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WASHINGTON (AP) Democrat Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to President Donald Trump, but some Republicans in Congress are intensifying their calls to investigate her and other Obama administration officials.

As investigations into Russian meddling and possible links to Trumps campaign have escalated on both sides of the Capitol, some Republicans argue that the investigations should have a greater focus on Democrats.

Democrats who have pushed the election probes have started a war of investigative attrition, said GOP Rep. Steve King of Iowa, a member of the House Judiciary Committee.

Several officials from former President Barack Obamas administration and Clintons campaign have appeared before or been interviewed by the House and Senate Intelligence Committees as part of the Russia investigation, along with Trump campaign officials. The GOP-led committees are investigating whether Trumps campaign had any links to Russian interference in last years election.

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., has continued a separate investigation into whether Obama administration officials inappropriately made requests to unmask identities of Trump campaign officials in intelligence reports.

The House Judiciary Committee, which has declined to investigate the Russian meddling, approved a resolution this past week to request documents related to the FBIs now-closed investigation of Clintons emails. In addition, Republican on that committee wrote the Justice Department on Thursday and asked for a second special counsel, in addition to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, to investigate unaddressed matters, some connected to the 2016 election and others, including many actions taken by Obama administration.

The American public has a right to know the facts all of them surrounding the election and its aftermath, the lawmakers wrote.

Republicans want to investigate the unmasking issue and also Clintons email scandal that figured prominently in the campaign. They also frequently bring up former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and former FBI Director James Comeys testimony that she told him to call the Clinton email investigation a matter instead of an investigation during the campaign.

Nunes wrote his own letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats last week, saying that his committee has learned that one Obama administration official had made hundreds of the unmasking requests.

Even though he remains committee chairman, Nunes stepped back from the Russia investigation earlier this year after he was criticized for being too close to the White House. Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, took over the leading role.

The committee has conducted bipartisan interviews of witnesses; Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner appeared on Tuesday, a day after talking to Senate staff. But partisan tensions have been evident.

GOP Rep. Pete King of New York, whos on the House Intelligence Committee, said after the Kushner interview that the committee investigation into Russian meddling is a sham.

To me there is nothing to this from the beginning, he said of his committees own probe. There is no collusion ... its the phoniest investigation ever.

Both the Senate and House committees have interviewed or expressed interest in interviewing a series of Democratic witnesses, including Obamas former national security adviser, Susan Rice, and former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power both of whom Republicans have said may be linked to the unmasking. Rice met with staff on the Senate Intelligence Committee earlier this month, and Power met with the panel Friday.

Ambassador Power strongly supports any bipartisan effort to address the serious threat to our national security posed by Russias interference in our electoral process, and is eager to engage with the Senate and House committees on the timeline they have requested, Powers lawyer, David Pressman, said in a statement.

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Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton dying in a boating accident that was sabotaged is fake news. There is no truth to a report that mother and daughter died following an accident on a boat. Where did this fake news originate?

Americas Last Line of Defense published the article on July 29, 2017, reporting that the mother and daughter died in a boating accident. You can read the fake news below.

Captain John Harkness was in command of the 32-foot yacht Hillary and Chelsea Clinton were enjoying themselves on when it suddenly jumped to full throttle and veered directly into a small marina. The accident, just offshore from Port Weatherly, North Dakota, was the first fatal crash on the states coast in over a decade.

At first, investigators were considering the possibility that the captain fell asleep at the wheel when they found an electronic device attached to the boats avionics and sonar array. The device had the ability to remotely control the operation of the craft from any mobile device.

It didnt matter that the craft was at such a tiny Lake Huron port or that the closest major city is Piedmont. The device was military grade sophisticated and worth more than $200K on the black market. Special Agent Lucas Enlaura of the FBI told LLODs Skip Tetheluda:

This was as professional a hit as you can possibly get. Now comes the fun part. Going down the list of people who would want to cause Hillary Harm. I know where we can get a list of about 62 million of them.

Shes right. Hillary Clinton is the most unpopular person to have ever run for office. She was bullied onto the Senate in a district where your neighbors dog has a better chance of being counted than you do if youre a conservative.

The investigation will start with the obvious, Bill Clinton, and then should focus on Benghazi so we can finally get some answers.

However, there is no truth to the above story. A simple search verifies that no major media outlet reported on this incident concerning the deaths of both Hillary and Chelsea Clinton. Something of this nature would certainly be making headlines if there were any truth to it.

Here are some examples of people sharing the fake news on social media.

The Last Line of Defense, a web site known to publish only fabricated news. Last Line of Defenses disclaimer states the following:

DISCLAIMER: Americas Last Line of Defense is a satirical publication that uses the imagination of liberals to expose the extreme bigotry and hate and subsequent blind gullibility that festers in right-wing nutjobs. We present fiction as fact and our sources dont actually exist. Names that represent actual people and places are purely coincidental and all images should be considered altered and do not in any way depict reality.

What did you think of the fake news about Hillary and Chelsea Clinton dying in a boating accident? Did you believe it or see people sharing it falsely on social media? Let us know in the comments section.

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The election of Donald Trump is really a kind of a class rebellion against people like us, educated professionals who live in cities who have cosmopolitan views about a lot of things, Zakaria said on the networks New Day program. I think theres a whole part of America thats sick and tired of being told what to do by this overeducated professional elite that Hillary Clinton in many ways perfectly represented, and thats why theyre sticking with him.

Every now and then, Zakaria makes a good point, even if it is not the most original to those who have been reading Breitbart News for years, as Trumps victory was indeed a big middle finger to the types of elites favored by CNN and Morning Joe who so often mistake sounding smart and throwing out the most fashionablebuzzwords and ideas for actual knowledge.

Zakaria, of course, then had to imply that Trumps supporters are intolerant, saying that another reason that Trump won the election is because white working-class voters were uncomfortable with immigrants and maybe the fact that blacks are rising up to a central place in society.

He also said that white males may have voted for Trump because of gays being afforded equal rights and more women beingsuccessful in the workplace.

Everyone is sort of muscling in on the territory that, if you think about it, the white working man had, Zakaria concluded.

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Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee want the Justice Department to appoint a second special counsel to investigate actions taken by Hillary Clinton, James Comey and Loretta Lynch during the 2016 presidential election.

Twenty Republicans, led by Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, who is Judiciary Committee chairman, wrote a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein requesting the appointment of a new special counsel.

"Democrats and the mainstream media called for a special counsel to be appointed to investigate any Russian influence on President Trump's campaign," the Republican lawmakers wrote. "Their pleas were answered, but there are many questions that may be outside the scope of Special Counsel Mueller's investigation."

Republicans say the mandate of special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russia's election interference, is too narrow, and that the Justice Department should focus on other issues related to the Obama administration by appointing another special counsel, in addition to Mueller.

Mueller is also investigating whether the Trump campaign worked with the Kremlin.

"The unbalanced, uncertain, and seemingly unlimited focus of the special counsel's investigation has led many of our constituents to see a dual standard of justice that benefits only the powerful and politically well-connected," the Republican lawmakers wrote.

The letter comes after the Judiciary Committee on Wednesday approved an amendment demanding from the Justice Department information related to Comey's handling of the Clinton email case. Comey is the former FBI director fired by President Trump in May.

The amendment demands information on "leaks" by Comey on "the propriety and consequence of immunity deals given to possible Hillary Clinton co-conspirators" and Comey's decision to "usurp the authority of then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch in his unusual announcement that criminal charges would not be brought against" Clinton.

The amendment, passed on a party-line vote, replaced a resolution from Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., that requests the Justice Department provide documents related to Comey's firing.

In addition to Clinton and Comey, the amendment targets Susan Rice, former President Barack Obama's national security adviser.

Some Republicans argue she inappropriately sought the identities of people close to Trump -- in a process known as "unmasking" -- whose communications were captured after the election in surveillance of foreigners by U.S. spy agencies.

The Judiciary Committee Republicans want a special counsel to probe whether Comey had advance knowledge of Rice's unmasking request.

Other information sought includes communication between Comey and Mueller before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing last month in which the former FBI director described his interactions with Trump, and evidence of "any or all" leaks by Comey to New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt dating back to 1993.

Schmidt broke the story detailing memos that Comey wrote about his conversations with Trump.

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi seemed to take an underhanded shot at the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign Sunday, while defending the Democratic Partys newmessage known as a better deal.

You call for higher wages, lower prescription drug costs, job training, infrastructure, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace said to Pelosi. Im not saying any of that is wrong, what I am saying is none of it is new. Weve been hearing it for years. We heard it from the Democrats and Hillary Clinton in 2016 and you lost.

Pelosi didnt disagree with Wallace, instead highlighting the fact that Congressional Democrats are in charge of the messaging for the first time since 2006 and that they, unlike Clinton in 2016, won.

Were going to hear it [Democratic messaging] with more clarity, Pelosi explained.For the first time since 2006, Congressional Democrats are in charge of the message. In 06, we were in charge. We won.

We had a democratic president in 08, Pelosi said. Now it is our turn to win the Congress for the American people.

Wallace also asked her about critics who have said the Democratic leadership team is too old, and that fresh blood is needed.

Well let me just say this, self-promotion is a terrible thing but somebodys gotta do it, Pelosi responded with a smile. Im a master legislator. I know the budget to the nth degree.

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