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U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch speaks to members of the media as she makes a statement on the Dallas killing of police officers July 8, 2016 at the Justice Department in Washington, DC.Alex Wong/Getty Images

Senate Judiciary Committee leaders on Friday said they are seeking information about former Attorney General Loretta Lynch's alleged interference in Hillary Clinton's private email investigation .

The bipartisan group is inquiring about Lynch's communication with Clinton campaign aide Amanda Renteria whom Lynch reportedly assured that the FBI's investigation wouldn't "go too far" as well as documents and information indicating whether the agency probed that alleged conversation.

Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), along with other lawmakers including 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham, sent letters to Lynch earlier this week with the request.

A spokesman for Lynch said the former attorney general "will cooperate fully with this inquiry and respond directly to the Senate Judiciary Committee."

"Ms. Lynch is a committed public servant who has dedicated much of her career to the Department of Justice and led the department as attorney general in the fair and impartial administration of justice," a spokesman said in a statement Friday.

The inquiries about Lynch's communication are part of a larger examination of President Donald Trump's dismissal of FBI Director James Comey , who was overseeing the Clinton probe at the time.

In a testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee earlier this month, Comey said that Lynch during the Clinton probe told him: "Dont call it [an investigation]. Call it a matter. Just call it a matter."

"It gave me a queasy feeling," Comey said in the testimony .

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Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the 2017 Stephan Weiss Apple Awards on June 7, 2017 in New York City.

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Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had some strong words for the Republican Party on Friday, saying that if Congress manages to pass the Senate health care bill, the GOP will become the death party. Clinton wrote the strong words on Twitter as she retweeted a study by the Center for American Progress that said the health care bill currently making its way through the Senate could lead to as many as 28,000 additional deaths in 2026. Forget death panels. If Republicans pass this bill, they're the death party, she tweeted.

Clinton has been using Twitter to speak up against the health care bill over the past few days and her latest comments come as former President Barack Obama also took to social media to oppose the measure. In a Facebook post, the president warned that this bill will do you harm.

President Donald Trump is now personally trying to woo fellow Republicans to get behind the health care legislation as five GOP senators have now publicly said they wont support the bill. Republicans can only afford to lose two of their 52 senators and still pass the bill with a tie-breaking vote by Vice President Mike Pence. The real numbers of Republican senators who oppose the measure could actually be much higher though, considering several have refused to say one way or another whether they support the overhaul.

Trump took to Twitter on Saturday to criticize the Affordable Care Act and Democrats who are opposed to the Republican repeal bill. Democrats slam GOP healthcare proposal as Obamacare premiums & deductibles increase by over 100%. Remember keep your doctor, keep your plan, the president wrote early Saturday morning.

Although the measure is being billed as a way for Republicans to make good on their promise to repeal Obamacare, the bill also goes a long way to fulfilling a long-held goal by the GOP to slash entitlement spending while cutting taxes on the rich. The Washington Post explains:

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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) heavily criticized Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the Senate minority leader, for their dramatic attacks on the Republican Senate leaderships health care bill.

On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released the Republican leaderships plan to replace the Obama-era Affordable Care Act. The bill, titled the Better Care Reconciliation Act, would scale back numerous Obamacare mandates, regulations and taxes, but would keep much of the basic framework in place.

Within 30 minutes of the 142-page bill being released, Schumer, who had accused Republicans of keeping the bill a secret as recently as the day before its release, hammered the legislation, calling it meaner than the legislation passed in the House of Representatives in May, the American Health Care Act.

This #Trumpcare bill strips away protections from the ppl [sic] who need them most in order to give a tax break to those who need it least, Schumer wrote on Twitter almost immediately after the bill was released.

Frankly, every senior in America should read the fine print of this #Trumpcare bill; it looks like American seniors could be paying WAY more, Schumer added, along with several other critical posts.

Schumer also said the bill is meaner than the AHCA and heartless.

Not to be outdone by her fellow Democrats, Clinton said on Friday the Republicans are now the death party.

Forget death panels, Clinton wrote on Twitter. If Republicans pass this bill, theyre the death party.

On Saturday, Huckabee appeared on Fox News Channels Fox & Friends, where he criticized Clinton, Schumer and other Democrats for attacking the health care bill.

Huckabee said Clintons rhetoric makes the parties look silly and shows they dont have an argument.

And when rhetoric goes to that level, I think it makes the parties look silly, Huckabee said. It sort of reveals they dont have an argument, they cant discuss the merits of a piece of legislation or a proposal, so theyre reduced to the most childish form of political rhetoric, which is to say, Youre a bad person. Youre going to kill somebody. Its so over the top; its just absurd.

I think the guy is clairvoyant, Huckabee quipped.

The curtain needs to come down on this theater, because the play is getting tiresome, Huckabee added.

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It's no secret that President Donald Trump is incredibly unpopular: FiveThirtyEight, a data-focused news site, had his average approval rating at 38.4 percent Wednesday.

But even as approval of Trump has declined steadily since he took office in January,his opponent in the 2016 presidential election, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, has not seen her popularity rise one bit.

Just 41 percent of Americans view the former secretary of state favorably, according to a poll released by Gallup Wednesday. Fifty-seven percent, meanwhile,view Clinton unfavorably. Those figures are virtually unchanged since November, when Clinton lost the election in a somewhat shocking upset. At about that time, Gallup found 43 percent viewed Clinton favorably while 55 percent viewed her unfavorably; since then, her numbers have held pretty steady at 41/57.

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The Gallup poll interviewd 1,009 adults from June 7 through June 11. It had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

That Clinton hasn't seen a bump in support represents an anomaly from historical trends. "Over the past quarter century, the favorable ratings of losing presidential candidates generally have increased after the electionsome in the immediate aftermath and others in the months that followed," Gallup wrote Wednesday. Typically, losing candidates can expect to see a bump in favorability of about 4 points, according to Gallup.

After initially withdrawing from the spotlight after the election loss, Clinton has re-entered the public sphereoften to criticize Trump or Republicans in general. She has recently tweetedabout the GOP's health care plan, for instance.

The matchup between Clinton and Trump pitted two remarkably unpopular presidential candidates against one another. Clinton has said she was to blame for her Election Day loss, while adding some caveats.

"I take absolute personal responsibility. I was the candidate, I was the person who was on the ballot. I am very aware of the challenges, the problems, the shortfalls that we had," Clinton said in a May interview, before adding she had been"on the way to winning until a combination of Jim Comey's letter on October 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me and got scared off."

Apparently, many people are still frightened.

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People Still Don't Like Hillary Clinton - Newsweek

President Trump openly questioned on Saturday whether the Obama administration wanted to damage Hillary Clinton's chances in the 2016 election by not immediately reacting to evidence of Russian meddling.

"Obama Administration official said they 'choked' when it came to acting on Russian meddling of election. They didn't want to hurt Hillary?", Trump tweeted Saturday afternoon.

The Obama administration official he is quoting is one from a Washington Post report on Friday that said former President Barack Obama was given information in August 2016 about Russian President Vladimir Putin delivering specific instructions to his operatives to undermine Clinton's campaign in favor of Trump's. It wasn't until October that Obama finally addressed the public about the suspected Russian hacking. Obama then slapped sanctions on Russia in December and reportedly authorized a cyber weapons project targeting in Russia's infrastructure.

Clinton, who served as Obama's secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, lost the Nov. 8 election. Obama had endorsed her and campaigned on her behalf.

Trump's tweet Saturday, which he sent after spending several hours at his golf course in Virginia, could be a conclusion that he reached in answer to the question he tweeted in response to the Post report Friday evening: "The Obama Administration knew far in advance of November 8th about election meddling by Russia. Did nothing about it. WHY?"

He also seemed to address the investigations into Russian interference in a tweet urging that the focus be placed on the Obama administration and not himself. "Since the Obama Administration was told way before the 2016 Election that the Russians were meddling, why no action? Focus on them, not T!", he tweeted.

The U.S. intelligence community reported in January with "high confidence" that Russian operatives worked to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.

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