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WASHINGTON Hillary Clinton said in a new interview that Joe Biden should not concede the 2020 presidential election under any circumstances," anticipating issues that could prolong knowing the final outcome.

Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances, because I think this is going to drag out, and eventually I do believe he will win if we don't give an inch, and if we are as focused and relentless as the other side is, Clinton said in an interview with her former communications director Jennifer Palmieri for Showtime's The Circus, which released a clip Tuesday.

The 2016 Democratic presidential nominee predicted that among several scenarios, Republicans are going to try to mess up absentee balloting so that they could get a potentially narrow advantage in the Electoral College.

We've got to have a massive legal operation, I know the Biden campaign is working on that, she said. We have to have poll workers, and I urge people, who are able, to be a poll worker. We have to have our own teams of people to counter the force of intimidation that the Republicans and Trump are going to put outside polling places. This is a big organizational challenge, but at least we know more about what they're going to do.

Clinton said she thinks that the only way Trump could win re-election is by either suppressing or stopping voting, or outright intimidating people into feeling that they have to go with the strong guy to stand up against all these threats that Trump is going to gin up to scare people.

She also suggested that Biden should be more aggressive in his fight against Trump.

I loved hearing Joe Biden talking about bringing people together and leading us into the light, she said about the former vice presidents speech at the Democratic National Convention last week. But, you know, it's a battle and fear is really powerful.

Trump, for his part, has been saying for months that massive fraud will occur in the election because of widespread mail-in voting, which Democrats are pushing for to expand access to ballots during the coronavirus pandemic.

Ahead of the second night of the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, Trump tweeted, 80 Million Unsolicited Ballots are impossible for election centers to tabulate accurately. The Democrats know this better than anyone else. The fraud and abuse will be an embarrassment to our Country. Hopefully the Courts will stop this scam!

Rebecca Shabad is a congressional reporter for NBC News, based in Washington.

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Former Secretary of State Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonRepublican COVID-19 outbreak rocks the 2020 race Testing positive: Will Trump's presidency be a casualty of COVID-19? GOP anxiety grows over Trump political roller coaster MORE says in a new episode of her podcast that she views "Black Lives Matter," the rallying cry used by thousands of protesters demanding changes in the way Black Americans are treated by police, as a "theological" statement.

In the episode released Tuesday featuring a conversation between Clinton and the Rev. William J. Barber, a supporter of the "Black Lives Matter" movement and co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, Clinton explained her thoughts on the phrase.

"When you think about the veryconcerted effort by one specific political party to basically own Christianity ... it overlooks the role of the African American church, it overlooks, as you say, a lot of theology, a lot of history, it also overlooks this moment in time," Clinton said.

" 'Black Lives Matter,' I view as, you know, very profoundly a theological statement," she added.

The 2016 Democratic presidential nominee's comments come amid nationwide protests against police brutality and racism, which began in late May following the policekillingof George Floyd.

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The CW has put in development The Womans Hour, a seasonal anthology drama series based on Elaine Weiss critically praised book The Womans Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, from former Secretary of State, first lady and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton, Amblin Television and Warner Bros. TV. Angelina Burnett (Halt and Catch Fire) is attached as writer, executive producer and showrunner.

The prospective first season will shed light on the ferocious battle to ratify the 19th Amendment, the 100th anniversary of which was commemorated in August 2020. Each season of the series will celebrate those who changed history and have strong contemporary reverberations, appealing to todays rising tide of young, politically active audiences.

Clinton, Weiss, and Burnett executive produce with Amblin TV co-presidents Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey. Warner Bros. TV is the studio.

Rights for the book were optioned by Amblin Television in 2018, after Clinton brought the project to longtime supporter and Amblin Chairman Steven Spielberg. Clinton first discovered the book after Weiss made it her mission to get the novel to the former Secretary of State, after realizing the striking parallels between the womens suffrage movement and the 2016 presidential election between Clinton and Donald Trump.

The project marks Clintons first role as executive producer.

TV writer/producer and community organizer Burnett most recently served as co-executive producer on AMCs Halt and Catch Fire. She previously worked on Amblin TVs The Americans and has also held producing and writing roles for Genius, Hannibal and Boss. After volunteering as an organizer during the 2008 primary election, Burnett was hired to run the Nevada Border State program for the 2008 general election. She has been organizing ever since.

Clinton is repped by Robert Barnett and Michael OConnor at Williams & Connolly LLP and Steven Burkow at Ziffren Brittenham. Weiss is repped by WME. Burnett is repped by Manage-Ment.

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And several former senior intelligence officials described Ratcliffes move as incendiary and irresponsible, given the manner in which he was publicly releasing unverified information that originated from a foreign adversary.

The assessment claims that Hillary Clinton, then a Democratic candidate for president, personally approved an effort to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians' hacking of the Democratic National Committee. But in his letter to Graham, Ratcliffe noted that the U.S. intelligence community does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication.

The Senate Intelligence Committee issued five reports on Russias sweeping effort to meddle in the 2016 election to boost Trump, ranging across thousands of pages. The panel was made aware of that allegation early on in its investigation, and quickly dismissed it, the sources said.

Im very, very proud of the bipartisan work of the Intelligence Committee three and a half years, five volumes and that work speaks for itself, Warner said.

According to Ratcliffe, former CIA Director John Brennan briefed former President Barack Obama on the Russian assessment, which included the allegation that Clinton approved the plan to tie Trump to the hack of the DNC after it was proposed by one of her foreign policy advisers.

Asked about Ratcliffes claims, Nick Merrill, a spokesperson for Clinton, said in a text message that the allegations were baseless bullshit.

Nick Shapiro, Brennans former deputy chief of staff at the CIA, said Ratcliffe should be ashamed of his blatant politicization of his position.

After receiving pushback against the declassified material, Ratcliffe said in a statement: To be clear, this is not Russian disinformation and has not been assessed as such by the Intelligence Community. Ill be briefing Congress on the sensitive sources and methods by which it was obtained in the coming days.

Graham responded to his critics later Tuesday, saying that the veracity of the Russian intelligence assessment was irrelevant.

Im not saying whether its true or not, Graham told reporters. Im asking Democrats, do you give a damn whether the FBI investigated it, or do you just care only about investigating Trump?

When pressed on why he released the information even though it was unverified, Graham called it the ultimate double standard.

They took the whole damn country through hell for two and a half years and is it far-fetched to believe that the Clinton campaign would do something like this after Christopher Steele? Graham said referring to the author of an unverified dossier of claims about Trumps connections to Russia.

A former senior intelligence official said it was a surprising choice to release this information that is not new and that seems unconfirmed now and in an unclassified letter, adding: I dont know what good purpose is served.

It has long been known that the Russians were trying to stir up false narratives about Clinton through similar avenues.

Another former senior intelligence official said Brennan would frequently brief Obama on Russias actions regardless of whether it was about Trump or Clinton, adding that Brennan also wanted to demonstrate the extent of the U.S. intelligence communitys ability to collect against Russia.

In recent days, Trumps allies have been dripping out several disclosures related to the FBIs investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and other information aimed at denigrating Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

Grahams committee will hear from former FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday as part of that sweeping GOP-led probe. Graham also announced on Tuesday that former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe will testify before the panel next week. McCabe agreed to appear voluntarily, according to an aide. McCabes lawyer said earlier Tuesday that he was being denied access to his old files that he says are necessary for him to prepare for his testimony.

The presidents eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was among those on the right who spotlighted Tuesdays disclosure, writing on Twitter: The Russia hoax was Hillarys plan, and the Obama-Biden White House was briefed on it.

Natasha Bertrand contributed to this report.

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After a presidential debaterife with outbursts and attacks, Hillary Clinton confirmed shewished she could have told President Donald Trump to "shut up" when the pair debated in 2016.

The former nominee's confession came after feminist writer Jill Filipovic tweeted that former Vice President Joe Biden's off-the-cuff remark of "Will you shut up, man?" was "the line of the night."

Filipovic lateradded, "I so feel for Hillary right now, because I'm positive she wanted to say that and couldn't."

"You have no idea," Clinton replied.

Clinton was the first female major-party nominee for president when she faced Trump four years ago.In her first debate versus Trump, he interrupted her 51 times, according to a county by Vox.

She, in turn, interrupted himjust 17 times.And unlike Biden, she resisted the urge to tell him to "shut up."

Prior to the debate, Clinton told MSNBC's Rachel Maddowthat she would be watching the debate with "real interest, and a certain level of expectation."

"Unlike four years ago, Donald Trump now has a record," she explained. "Everyone has seen what he has done to our country, what he has failed to do."

After laudingBiden for his "toughness" and "humanity," Clinton saidshe was "looking forward to the debate."

Clinton told Maddow thatTrump has lost "his big advantage" of reality television stardom.

Donald Trump, right, debates Hillary Clinton in St. Louis on Oct. 9, 2016.(Photo: PAUL J. RICHARDS, AFP via Getty Images)

"I think his series is about to be cancelled," she joked. "It'sjust the same story over and over again: lying with impunity, attacking when you have nothing to say, unable to give an answer that is frankly coherent."

For his part, Trump mentioned Clinton once during the debate, reprising the moniker "Crooked Hillary Clinton" and accusing Democrats of attempting a "coup."

After the heated debate, Chasten Buttigieg the husband of former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who made a run at the Democratic nomination took to Twitter to express his sympathy for Clinton, too.

"Has anyone checked in on @HillaryClinton?" he wrote. "Girl Im so sorry."

"Thanks, Im fine," she replied. "But everyone better vote."

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