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Fleitz said hes still hopeful that there could be an investigation into Loretta Lynch, I really hope so, he said, because that was the criminal activity of the 2016campaign. Why was the law not enforced concerning the Clinton email server, the mishandling of classified information, the Clinton Foundation, and what I think are numerous instances of foreign governments trying to buy influence with a prospective president?

There are clear instances of pay-for-play with the Clinton Foundation, he continued. The email server broke so many laws. If I had done a small fraction of the things connected with that incident Id have lost my job, Id have enormous legal bills and frankly, I think Id be serving prison time.

Fleitz added that he hopes Lynch and other Obama officials are questioned by the Senate. Said Fleitzof the Democrats, If theyre going to pursue this route, this relentless series of pointless and false investigations of President Trump, lets investigate Hillary Clinton and all the criminal activity that she is clearly responsible for.

As regards American college student Otto Warmbier, Fleitz Said, This is just such a terrible story. The North Korean government murdered this young man. They murdered him. And we know that North Korea is a criminal regime. But what Im very angry about is how the Obama administration did almost nothing to get him back.

There were no consular visits, Fleitz continued, which are required under international law by the state representing us, Sweden, to check on him while he was in prison. There were none.

Fleitz continued to blast the Obama administration for dropping the ball. A young man who was his hotel roommate before he was arrested, hes a British citizen, says the Obama administration never contacted him tofind out the particulars of why he was arrested. The Obama administration said to the Warmbier family, stay silent, do nothing, and the Obama administration pursued their idiotic policy of strategic patience, which we now know was an utter failure.

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The Audience of Broadway's Come From Away Cheers as Hillary Clinton Keeps a Good Thing Going - Vulture

Hillary Clinton was interviewed over the telephone by Salon [on June 14, 2007] before she flew to New Hampshire.

The first time I interviewed you was in the governors mansion in Little Rock in 1992. So I was tempted to ask: Anything happen in your life since then?

Oh, I dont know. Whats new with you?

You were quoted the other day when asked about Barack Obamas fundraising numbers and you said that if he out-raised you in the second quarter, It would mean nothing to my campaign. What did you mean by that? Are you saying that we in the press place too much importance on fundraising numbers?

Well, Im afraid you might [be over-emphasizing fundraising numbers]. Because the real challenge is whether you have a strategy youre pursuing and the resources to implement your strategy. When I ran in 2000, I was outraised and outspent by nearly 2-to-1 by both of my opponents. It never bothered me for a moment because my concern was making sure that I had the resources which I did to run my campaign as I expected it to run.

And thats how I feel about this. Weve done very well. We will continue to do very well. But I keep focused on what Im doing. I have no control over what anybody else does. And it has served me well and I think it will serve me well in this campaign. And it will serve me well when Im president.

Let me ask something that comes up every time I write about you. I sometimes refer to you on, say, the fifth reference as Hillary instead of Clinton. I always get three or four letters saying that I am demeaning women by referring to you by your first name. But your campaign materials refer to you as Hillary and the word Clinton might also apply to another well-known public person. Do you have any feelings about this? Am I offending you every time I type Hillary, Obama and Edwards? Or do you have an open mind as long as I spell Hillary correctly?

I probably have more of an open mind. But I understand the point people are taking because if you also refer to Rudy and Mitt and John then that would be even-handed. I get the same indignation from a lot of women who read you and others and say, They never call the other candidates by their first name.

And I think that in print as opposed to building a campaign that really does use my first name because it is so identified with who I am thats the concern that people have.

For Democratic voters, one of the ways of sorting out the field is electability. Do you think electability should include how would this candidate do in a three-way race in which Mike Bloomberg, running as an independent, is part of it?

Well, Im not going to answer hypotheticals because again I want to keep focused on running my campaign to the best of my ability. And I have no influence or control over what anybody else does to get in, or get out, or run on a third party. But I feel very confident that I can put together a winning campaign no matter who my opponents are.

Six months into a Hillary Clinton administration, about how many U.S. military personnel do you envision being in Iraq to handle what youve referred to in the past as vital national security interests from helping the Kurds to preventing Iran from crossing the border?

I cannot give you a figure because I will not become president until January 2009 and there is no way to predict what will occur between now and then. I have said repeatedly that I am committed to taking our combat troops out of the midst of this sectarian civil war. And there may well be vital national security interests that require a continuing presence, although I do not support permanent bases or a permanent occupation. When Im elected and between the time that I am elected and the time I become president I will focus to a great extent (and nearly to the exclusion of a lot of other important matters) on being ready to make those decisions once I become president.

But it is just impossible to make any kind of credible predictions at this point. I am still hoping that the president will decide to follow the Iraq Study Groups recommendations and begin to alter the makeup and mission of our force before he leaves office. I think it is his responsibility to do that. So thats my principal emphasis during this time to try to persuade or require him to take the steps that I would have to do initially if he has not.

Following up on that: Do you think that the Democratic primary voters the people you talk to every day who are so palpably eager to end this war need to understand that there are certain national security roles that the U.S. would have to continue to play in Iraq, even after we take out the combat troops?

I have a lot of confidence in the electorate both in the primary and the general election. I think voters are hungry for people who will explain to them the complexities of the problems we face, the difficult challenges we will inherit.

So for me, in my discussions, of course, we would all like to turn the clock back. We would certainly like to begin withdrawing troops as soon as we can. It is complicated and dangerous to withdraw troops. Thats one of the reasons why a few weeks ago I wrote to Secretary [of Defense] Gates asking that he ensure that there is a serious planning process under way right now not just the usual contingency plans on the shelf, but operational planning to begin to be prepared to withdraw troops.

Our troops and their equipment will be extremely vulnerable. There are only two ways to get them out. One [is] through the north through Turkey and you recall that Turkey did not allow us to move troops through their country [at the start of the war]. So therefore, we will have to go south. And long convoys are vulnerable; they are the principal battlefield where our soldiers are wounded and killed by the explosive devices used against them.

So I talk a lot about the complexity of the decisions that we have to be aware of in our country that I will have to face as president. And thats why I am trying to push this president to begin to prepare us. Because if we are to start tomorrow to begin ordering our troops both out of combat, which we can do, and have them move back to the bases we have established there [it takes preparation]. But if we are going to begin to move them and their equipment out of Iraq, that is something that I will be very concerned about because of the dangers that will accompany that kind of withdrawal.

Ive talked to Democratic voters who say that they really want to support you but theyre really concerned that America would be becoming some sort of oligarchy if just two families divided the White House for 24 or even 28 years. What would you say to a Democratic voter like that?

Well, Im running on my qualifications and experience. I am proud to have been part of the Clinton administration where I think we got a lot of things right during those eight years. We are going to propose plans of action that will be future-oriented. But there are some lessons, both what to do and what not to do, that I certainly learned during the Clinton administration that I will put to work as president. And I am asking the voters to judge me along with my opponents as to what I bring to this campaign.

In a democracy, the right of any voter [is] to choose any reason to vote for or against anyone running. And I hope I will be able to make the case over time to a majority of voters that my experience gives me an edge that I understand the challenges were going to face and that I will be able to marshal the resources in order to begin addressing them from Day One. That to me is essential. Every president faces a difficult period in office. It comes with the territory and its the hardest job in the world. It always has been. But it is made more so by what we will inherit. So we really dont have any time to waste. You have to be incredibly well prepared from Day One to deal with the range of domestic and international challenges and threats that we face.

So I think its an advantage for my candidacy that I have this experience and it certainly is one of the qualifications that I am presenting to voters.

Lets talk about a couple of specifics. As we both remember, too much time was spent on selecting a Cabinet in 1993 and too little time was spent on selecting a White House staff. One of the results of that was all of the internal turmoil that, I suspect, you remember from 1993. As president, what lessons would you draw from that experience?

Oh, I think I learned an enormous amount. You spend so much time and energy on the campaign and then you wake up the morning after the election and youre going to be the president of the United States in a short period of time and there is so much work to do.

You really do have to, as soon as you get the nomination, begin to think about that. It is not presumptuous, it is prudent to begin thinking clearly about what you will have to face and who you need to recruit and have around you in order to do the peoples business from Day One.

We also didnt have a lot of firsthand experience in Washington [in 1993]. I think I have a great advantage having had both the White House experience as well as the prior experience in a state, which is very important for a president to know how that works.

But now especially for my term in the Senate I learned a lot of things in the last six years that I wish I had known 15 years ago. But I think that the cumulative experience has persuaded me [of the need for] really understanding the team that you will build. And the strengths and weaknesses that you have to balance against, because every one of us brings strengths and weaknesses. And a good president and this is something I think Im especially sensitive to will want a diversity of opinion, will want to be surrounded by people who have experience and expertise that balances mine. Im afraid that President Bush has had too small a circle of advisors and decision makers, which I think is both to his detriment and the detriment of our country.

So I am very anxious to learn the lessons from previous presidents including Bill. I will make my own mistakes, I think that goes with the territory. I have no doubt about that. But I am going to try very hard to think through carefully how to be as well prepared, to have the agenda ready, to have the relationships with the Congress, to have the staff the Cabinet and advisors really ready to provide a balance that will give us the strongest possible team going forward.

You just mentioned lessons from the Senate that you wished you had known back in the White House days. Could you be specific about a couple of them?

Certainly the way the Senate, and the Congress more generally, works is something that you can look at from the outside, but you cant really fully appreciate it until youre in it. And we got a lot of advice I got a lot of advice, let me put it in personal terms back in 93 about healthcare. And some of that advice didnt work out so well.

And I understand so much better [now] than I ever could have then. You could have handed me a book or given me a lecture. But I now feel it and understand it in my core about how to work with the Congress. The lead that the Congress has to take in order for it to feel and be a full partner that a president needs. The direction [that] the president has to provide. But [that comes with] the understanding that the Congress has to work its will. You cant expect it to be done automatically or just exactly the way that you want it. Theres room for improving it, for making compromises.

That sounds simplistic. But president after president has run into some real hurdles trying to impose his will on Congress when I think what you want is to try to create a common will that will be built on relationships. You know I have very good relationships in the Congress, and certainly on a bipartisan basis, that I have developed. And I think I can find partners across the aisle on a number of issues that will be important to the country. So its what comes with experience. I have lived it, I have seen it firsthand. And I will carry it with me to the White House.

What have you learned about combating the right-wing attack machine the vast right-wing conspiracy, if you will that you know now that you wish you knew in 1993 and 1994?

[Laughter].

The laughter will be noted.

Number one, you have to stay focused on what youre trying to achieve. And if youre attacked, then obviously you respond. But you dont go seeking it, and you certainly dont go trying to make that your modus operandi. What youre looking for is a positive message and a positive agenda that you can make your own. And to try to bring as many people to the table as is possible. And then draw lines wherever necessary. That is essential that you draw those lines on things that will be important. You can work with people across the aisle, you can work with people who have a different ideology. But there are some things you just have to stand your ground on. Understanding that and being able to navigate through that is a challenge, but you have to be able to do it.

Thank you. I look forward to seeing you across a crowded room Friday in New Hampshire.

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Quality of life for Mum was also about quality of life for her daughters and, honestly, I just always thought shed make it a little longer. Photograph: Alamy

My mother died the night Hillary Clinton lost. These might seem like two very unrelated events and youd be right about that. But for me, and my somewhat particular circumstances, Ive found a plethora of meaning about life and death, feminism and politics.

See, it was also the night I was due to be sworn in as a councillor for my local city council. It was my first political foray and Ive reflected on the start of my own political journey while on the other side of the world a smart and skilled female politician saw the end of hers, with our whole gender brutalised by a despicable Trump. And though Mum doesnt know it, all my political guts I got from her.

Mum was diagnosed with breast cancer 10 days before the 2016 Australian federal election. Dad called me from Canberra to say he had taken Mum to hospital and she had acute pneumonia. I was going through the processes of my Labor nomination for council elections. With days to the federal election, every spare moment I wasnt working I was door-knocking and pre-polling.

I dont remember that first conversation with Dad. I do remember the call the next day when Dad told me Mum had terminal cancer (as well as acute pneumonia) and the cancer had spread through her ribs, spine and pelvis. I was at my desk so I booked a flight home and, as I headed out the door, asked a colleague to cancel me out of every election activity I was signed up for.

Breast cancer is a disease that inflicts itself predominantly on women. Its also one of the most misdiagnosed cancers around. Mum had her last mammogram only months earlier and it hadnt appeared. I grew bitter quickly.

At the same time this was a federal election where it was one bloke versus another bloke versus another bloke, and women barely seemed to get a mention. I had volunteered the bulk of my time on campaigns to support female candidates in tough Victorian seats, none who won. I sat bedside my mother who taught me everything and watched women largely erased out of public life.

On Sunday 3 July, a day after the federal election Mum was only in the second week of a disastrous five week stint in hospital my journal shows compassion draining out of me:

I suspect I will grow rough and battle hardened and unforgiving from this. A part of me hopes I will. Perhaps I will grow ruthless and mean and brutal like life and that might make me powerful like men. I dont think Mum will like the new me. Ill have an excuse to be mean now, finally.

I thought at length about quitting the council race. We didnt know the timeline Mums cancer was working to, although wed been told up to 24 months for stage four breast cancer. I was enjoying caring for her and all her needs. But quality of life for Mum was also about quality of life for her daughters and, honestly, I just always thought shed make it a little longer.

So I ran my council campaign in between working full time and flying back home to care for Mum, alternating every second weekend with my sister. Offering a parallel world to my campaigning life, my life with Mum gave me such relief. I loved the quiet nights I shared with her. From the carers bed in her room, I would lie facing her and would listen for her breathing as her lungs drew in air from her oxygen tank.

In late October, I won the third and final spot at the council ward elections; Mum went back into hospital and I flew home again.

While nothing can prepare you for the death of a parent I did everything I could to prepare myself. I read memoir and non-fiction (by women) and I talked with women who had experience, both personal and professional.

In the final days, as Mum slept sedated, I read A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir. It was the 50th anniversary of the translation of the French feminists account of her mothers death. The months of that death also mirrored my mothers own: a few long weeks over October and November.

De Beauvoirs mothers death was frightening to me because it was everything her maman didnt want. She wasnt ready for death and her medical wishes were not respected: the doctors operated on her even though she had begged de Beauvoir that she wouldnt let them touch her body. Her final moments were full of pain and distress. De Beauvoir wasnt even there as she had slept through the panicked phone calls from her sister.

I was not watching the US election results that afternoon and evening in November. Mum was at Canberras public hospice set amongst beautiful gardens and overlooking Lake Burley Griffin. For the last few days she had been heavily sedated. Mums breathing changed late in the afternoon and we knew, not long now.

In academia, philosopher Michel Foucault called it a heterotopia, but most of us might think of it as a bit of a headfuck, a space or place in time that has more meaning or relationship to another space than it might first appear. As my mum lay dying, I was in a room full of strong women with her. My cousin brought in the bad news from the US and I slumped in my chair beside Mum, overwhelmed by yet more insurmountable grief. I thought if I was back in Melbourne, if my mum wasnt dying, Id be at my council ceremony right now and Hillary might even have been winning but here I was in this awful parallel universe that happened to be real.

Mum died that night. A little after midnight, I woke from a light doze and Mum was turned slightly in her bed, facing me and she had stopped breathing. I leaned in close and checked for a pulse on her wrist. Her skin was so perfectly warm. The family all woke and we said our goodbyes.

I stayed with Mums body till morning. I picked out clothes for her as the nurses cleaned and dressed her. Then finally watched on as they are you ready for this? put Mums body into the transport bag. I followed the nurses as they pushed her bed down the hallway to the cold room, where I thanked them and having already said my goodbyes, left for my car and for my first day without my mum in a bleak, bleak new world.

In the months after, it was through the company of women, and particularly women who have lost their mothers, that I have found my feet again. I havent turned bitter and mean as I once thought or hoped I would. My feminism is softer with new compassion but also bolder with new militancy.

Im still finding my political feet, but Ive been elected to a council with majority women membership plus we have a female mayor and CEO too. At every council meeting I reflect deeply on the values, learnt from my mother, that drive my decision-making even if at times they wont make me popular.

I dont see much of Hillary in the news these days, which Im thankful for. It reminds me of Mum each time and when I do, bystanders watch me dab at my eyes and think she must really have liked Hillary. Little do they know that was the night my mum died.

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Youve seen the headlines, begging Joe Biden to just give it up and get out of our faces already. Dems want Joe Biden to leave spotlight, says The Hill. Dear Joe Biden, please stop talking about 2016, says a USA Today columnist. Joe Biden is back. Should Democrats be worried? asks The New Republic. Can Joe Biden please go quietly into the night? asks a column in Vanity Fair. A Daily News columnist begins his missive with, Hey, Joe Biden, shut the f- up and go away already. Folks sure do hate that guy. And all he did was give a couple of commencement speeches and an interview or two.

Okay, youve probably guessed: Joe Biden wasnt the subject of all those headlines. In fact, when the former vice president has made noises suggesting he still yearns to sit in the Oval Office, reporters treat it as at worst the understandable desires of a beloved uncle who may have lost a step or two, and at best a tantalizing possibilitydespite the fact that Biden ran for president twice, and could barely have performed worse if he had punched out the mayors of Des Moines and Dixville Notch on national television.

No, the target of all that anger and contempt is Hillary Clinton, who has dared to be seen in public on a few occasions since last November, violating some unwritten rule that says that unsuccessful presidential candidates must never be heard from again.

Or to be more precise, it was a rule that didnt exist until Hillary Clinton came along.

The problem isnt just that Clinton has the temerity to show her face, its also what she says. One writer after another has been incensed that when Clinton is asked about why the 2016 election came out the way it did, she fails to perform a ritual of self-abasement with sufficient enthusiasm so we can all stand back and enjoy her humiliation. What she does say is that the ultimate responsibility lies with her and she made plenty of mistakes, but she also notes that had James Comey not rushed to publicly declare 11 days before the election that he was examining some emails that might be related to her leading to a collective orgasm on the part of the mainstream media she would probably be president. That happens to be true, but shes not allowed to say it. Nothing short of her crying out, Yes, Im the worst! I deserve every ounce of your hatred! will do.

So lets be clear about this. If you dont like Hillary Clinton, thats fine. If you want to disagree with the substance of something she says in her occasional public appearances, thats fine, too. But if seeing an article about her giving a relatively anodyne commencement speech makes you seethe with rage and demand that she go away forevermore, youre the one with the problem.

This is the point where I have to note that she was an imperfect candidate who made mistakes, just like every candidate who ever ran for anything. Id also note that I have written many critical things about her over the years. But that has nothing to do with the malignant loathing that continues to get poured upon her every time a word passes her lips. And yes, that hatred still matters, because it tells us how powerful a force misogyny continues to be in our politics. Given that there are at least four Democratic women senators who could run for president in 2020 (Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, Amy Klobuchar, and Kamala Harris), well be dealing with issues around gender and power in the next election, too.

Am I arguing that all criticism of Clinton is only disguised sexism? Of course not. But saying that the particular brand of venom Clinton inspires (even from many liberals) can be divorced from questions about gender is like saying that Republicans and the media were so consumed with the matter of her emails for no reason other than their deep concern for IT security.

Entire books have been written about the myriad ways the backlash against feminism was projected onto Clinton; if you want something more concise, Id recommend this excellent segment from Samantha Bee, who notes that at every stage of her career Clinton was told to suppress her authentic self (cut your hair, take your husbands name, apologize for speaking your mind, dont make it seem like you have a strong role in his administration) until she was finally told that she wasnt authentic enough to be elected president. Once again, Clinton is being told shes doing it wrong, being held to standards demanded of none of the men who came before her.

Other losing candidates have made different choices about how public they wanted to be after their loss, but I cant recall a single one who was told so emphatically by so many people to keep his damn mouth shut. Part of what makes this so unfortunate is that Clinton probably has a lot of interesting things to say, if she chose to say them. As New York magazines Rebecca Traister (who has reported extensively on Clinton) told me in an email, Hillary Clinton is not like every other candidate ever to run for president. She is the only woman in American history to have been a major party nominee for president, to have run in, to have lost, to have won the popular vote in, an American presidential election. That makes her a crucial historic figure, and one who while she is still alive and her memories of her experiences and perspectives remain fresh SHOULD be talking about what shes just experienced.

Now maybe you still dont want to hear what she has to say; if so, youre free to ignore her. But dont complain that with a few public comments shes stealing the spotlight from somebody. Its 2017 theres no shortage of spotlight to go around. No one can say, Id love to start working toward running for president, but all the attention Hillary Clinton gets just makes it impossible! Every politician has a hundred different ways they can get attention or get their message out to the public, and nothing Clinton does or doesnt do will affect them one bit.

And dont tell me that Clinton is somehow keeping Democrats from having a robust debate about which direction their party should go in the future. Nobodys voice will be heard less because of her. Perhaps you think that the party should reject her incrementalism and her focus on practicalities when a more sweeping vision might be more effective. Perhaps you think it needs to forge a new identity built around younger leaders. Thats terrific nobodys stopping you or anyone else from making your case. Clinton is not holding you back.

So why are so many people so angry at her now? For many of the same reasons theyve been angry at her over her entire career. And you know what? Thats something Id be interested to hear her perspective on.

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