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Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, on Monday tied former FBI Director James B. Comeys testimony to Hillary Clintons server.

This is exactly the problem Hillary Clinton had with her illegal server. The handling of classified and confidential information that Jim Comey was meant to investigate, if not prosecute. The irony here is, hes trying to look into that for Hillary Clinton, Mrs. Conway said on Fox News.

Mrs. Conway was responding to reports over the weekend that Mr. Comeys leaked memos, which he acknowledged during his congressional testimony were intentionally leaked, contained classified information.

Mr. Trump tweeted about Mr. Comey on Monday morning.

If you look back and listen to him under oath, hes admitting why he did this, what his intent was, and you couple that with the fact that this was coincidental information, classified info in fact, I think this is the story that should get legs, she said.

Mrs. Conway also got into a heated exchange with CNNs Chris Cuomo on the topic of Russia, in which he asked her if she cared about the allegations of Russian collusion in the campaign.

I care about the fact that you seem to forget about the Russia connections that we do know about. We know Bill Clinton, not Don Jr., gave a speech in Russia for half a million dollars. We know that Hillary Clinton had one of the nine votes that allowed 20 percent of U.S. uranium rights to go there, she said on CNN. We know that in the summer of 2016, the people who knew about possibly Russian interference in the election werent at the Trump campaign. They were in the Obama White House.

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Many journalists reacted breathlessly to a New York Times report on Sunday revealingthat President Trumps oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., met with a Russian lawyer who indicated she had damaging information about Hillary Clinton.

Donald Jr. admitted to the June 2016 meeting to which he brought campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Trump adviser Jared Kushner butdownplayed its significance. Obviously Im the first person on a campaign to ever take a meeting to hear info about an opponent, he wrote on Twitter Monday morning, adding that the meeting went nowhere but that he had to listen.

Many Trump critics claimedthat the NYT reportsupported the theory that members of the Trump campaignwere somehow involved in theRussian governments hacking of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta and the Democratic National Committee.

But Trump Jr., Kushner and Manaforts lone meeting with the Russian lawyer pales when compared to the coordination between Clinton allies andUkrainian government officials who hoped to see Clinton winthe 2016 election.

Donald Trump and Paul Manafort (Getty Images)

Politico revealed in January someof the Ukrainian governments anti-Trump activities during the election.

A veteran DNC operative who previously worked in the Clinton White House, Alexandra Chalupa, workedwith Ukrainian government officials and journalists from bothUkraine and America to dig up Russia-related opposition research on Trump and Manafort. She also shared her anti-Trump research with both the DNC and the Clinton campaign, according to the Politico report.

Chalupa met with Ukrainian ambassador Valeriy Chaly and one of his aides, Oksara Shulyar, at the Ukrainian Embassy in March 2016 to talk about unearthing Paul Manaforts Russian connections, Chalupa admitted to Politico. Four days later, Trump officially hired Manafort.

The day after Manaforts hiring was revealed, she briefed the DNCs communications staff on Manafort, Trump and their ties to Russia, according to an operative familiar with the situation, Politico reported.

The Politico report also notes that the DNC encouraged Chalupa to try to arrange an interview with Ukrainian President PetroPoroshenko to talk about Manaforts ties to the former pro-Russia president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, whom Manafort previously advised.

The embassy declined to arrange the meeting but was nevertheless helpful, Chalupa told Politico. If I asked a question, they would provide guidance, or if there was someone I needed to follow up with, she said, but added that There were no documents given, nothing like that.

Chalupa also told Politicothat the Ukrainian embassy worked directly with reporters in uncovering dirt on Manafort and Trump.

Like other DNC staffers, some of Chalupas emails were obtained by hackers and published by WikiLeaks. U.S. intelligence services have identified Russia as the culprit behind the hacking of the DNC. In one email released by WikiLeaks, Chalupa told Luis Miranda, then the DNCs communications director, that she was working with Yahoo News reporter Michael Isikoff and connected him to the Ukrainians.

A lot more coming down the pipe. I spoke to a delegation of 68 investigative journalists from Ukraine last Wednesday at the Library of Congress the Open World Societys forum they put me on the program to speak specifically about Paul Manafort and I invited [Yahoo News reporter] Michael Isikoff whom Ive been working with for the past few weeks and connected him to the Ukrainians, Chalupa told Miranda. More offline tomorrow since there is a big Trump component you and Lauren need to be aware of that will hit in next few weeks and something Im working on you should be aware of.

TheOpen World Leadership Center, which funded Chalupas briefing of journalists about Manafort, is a taxpayer-fundedcongressional agency. A spokeswoman for the center, Maura Shelden, emphasized to Politico that the center is non-partisan and that our delegations hear from both sides of the aisle, receiving bipartisan information.

After Trumps shocking electoral victory, the Ukrainian government told Politico, We have never worked to research and disseminate damaging information about Donald Trump and Paul Manafort. But Andrii Telizhenko, a former Ukrainian embassy officer, told Politico that he was assigned to work with Chalupa.

Oksana said that if I had any information, or knew other people who did, then I should contact Chalupa, said Telizhenko They were coordinating an investigation with the Hillary team on Paul Manafort with Alexandra Chalupa.

Oksana was keeping it all quiet, Telizhenko said, but added that the embassy worked very closely with Chalupa, the DNC operative.

Like the Ukrainian embassy, the DNC distanced itself fromChalupas actions when asked by Politico, insisting that she was acting on her own.

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Everybody Is Forgetting That Clinton Allies Did The Same Thing As Don Jr. - The Daily Caller

Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian lawyer with ties to the Kremlin in the days after his father clinched the Republican presidential nomination, where he was offered information on Hillary Clinton that he was told would be helpful to his father's campaign, the president's eldest son said Sunday.

The meeting took place at Trump Tower between Trump Jr., the presidents son-in-law Jared Kushner, Trump's then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya on June 9, 2016.

"I was asked to have a meeting by an acquaintance I knew from the 2013 Miss Universe pageant with an individual who I was told might have information helpful to the campaign," Trump Jr. said in a statement received by ABC News. "I was not told her name prior to the meeting. I asked Jared and Paul to attend, but told them nothing of the substance.

"We had a meeting in June 2016. After pleasantries were exchanged, the woman stated that she had information that individuals connected to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Ms. Clinton.

"Her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense. No details or supporting information was provided or even offered. It quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information," he said.

Trump Jr. said that Veselnitskaya then changed the subject and began discussing the adoption of Russian children and moved the conversation towards the Magnitsky Act -- a 2012 bill that blocks certain Russian officials' entrance to the U.S. and their use of the U.S. banking system. After the act was passed, Russia stopped allowing Americans to adopt Russian children. Veselnitskaya is best known for her work against the Magnitsky Act.

"It became clear to me that this was the true agenda all along and that the claims of potentially helpful information were a pretext for the meeting. I interrupted and advised her that my father was not an elected official, but rather a private citizen, and that her comments and concerns were better addressed if and when he held public office," Trump Jr. said in his statement.

"The meeting lasted approximately 20 to 30 minutes. As it ended, my acquaintance apologized for taking up our time. That was the end of it and there was no further contact or follow-up of any kind," he said.

Trump Jr. added that his father knew nothing of the meeting.

The president's outside legal team also said he did not attend the meeting and was not aware of it.

The acquaintance who set up the meeting was Rob Goldstone, a music publicist and friend of Trump Jr., according to a source familiar with the meeting.

In a statement on Saturday, Trump Jr. described the meeting as "short" and "introductory" and that they'd "primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children."

This marks the first confirmation of a meeting between members of Trump's family and Russians during his campaign for the presidency.

It has been concluded among U.S. intelligence agencies that Russian hackers passed information stolen from the Clinton campaign and the Democratic party to WikiLeaks in 2016. The release of that material began July 22.

The meeting with Veselnitskaya was only recently disclosed by Kushner, now a senior White House aide, when he re-submitted a form necessary for his security clearance. Kushner's attorney Jamie Gorelick released a statement on Saturday regarding the revelation, explaining that the form was originally submitted before it should have been.

"As we have previously stated, Mr. Kushner's SF-86 was prematurely submitted and, among other errors, did not list any contacts with foreign government officials," he said in the statement.

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In the wake of her November election loss to Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton has found solace on Broadway. Every few weeks, it seems, a new story crops up detailing the Democrat's attendance at yet another play. Secretly snapped photos of her sitting in the audience make the rounds on Twitter, and,often, she receives a standing ovation.

"She's always been a strong supporter of the arts, so it doesn't surprise me that she'd want to spend her time this way," Heather Hitchens,president of theAmerican Theater Wing, told the New York Times recently. "The theater community is grateful for her presence."

Clinton's relationship with Broadway goes back years, watchingeverything from Avenue Q to You Can't Take It With You. She saw Hamilton before it got big and even benefited from a Broadway for Hillary fundraiser last October featuring Barbra Streisand, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Sarah Jessica Parker, among others.

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She's not the only politician who loves musicalsformer President Barack Obama is a big fan, and so is Vice President Mike Pence, who was booed and confronted by the Hamiltoncast when he caught a performance last year shortly after the Trump ticket won. But people have begun to take notice of the former first lady's frequent appearances.

"I need to get my hands on Hillary's Broadway touring schedule," theater fan and LGBT rights attorney Eric Lesh tweetedin January. "Hillary Clinton is my Broadway missed connection," community strategist Katie Minard added.

If you, like Doc McStuffinscreatorChris Nee, are "thinking of picking a Broadway show and seeing it every night until Hillary shows up," read on. Here's a list of what she's seenand whenover the past few months:

The Color Purple, Jan. 8

Clinton attended the revival's final show with her daughter and husband, the latter of whom exclaimed "Whoa!" when it ended, the Times reported.

The Humans, Jan. 15

Clinton and her husband stopped byGerald SchoenfeldTheatre to see the final matinee show and then had lunch with the producer, director and playwright, according to Broadway World.

In Transit, Feb. 1

Clinton spoke to cast and crew members at the Circle in the Square Theatre, saying, "We can't stop standing up for what we believe in and what we care about."

Sunset Boulevard, Feb. 15

She got to the Palace Theatre three minutes before showtime and happily took photos with supporters during intermission, according to Playbill.

War Paint, April 6

Clinton and aide Huma Abedin went to opening night at the Nederlander Theatre, and afterward star Patti LuPone told reporters she thought the former secretary of state "saw how much it was about women in power."LuPone pointed to one lyric as an example:"A woman scales the wall, climbs high above them all, and, oh, what gates of hell they put her through."

Waitress, June 8

On the same day fired FBI Director James Comey testified about his termination and the ongoing probe into Russia's role in the election, Clinton went to see singer Sara Bareilles at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, according to the New YorkDaily News. She said she thought the show was funny.

Come From Away, June 19

Chelsea Clintonbrought her parents to see the show at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, as co-writer David Hein posted on Facebook after the visit. "So many lines in the show resonated differentlyespecially the scene where passengers try to vote for a different destination and are told, 'This is not a democracy,'" Hein wrote. "And Hillary told us, 'This is a show that the world needs now.'"

Oslo, July 2

Clinton waved to a crowd chanting her name at the Lincoln Center Theater as she sat down with her husband, according to the Huffington Post.

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Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonComeys private memos on Trump conversations contained classified material Timeline: Donald Trump Jr.'s contact with Russian lawyer Ex-Bush ethics lawyer on Trump Jr: 'This borders on treason' MORE wants to play a role in next years midterm elections. Its just not clear yet what that role will be.

Clinton has already launched a PAC aimed at helping congressional Democratic candidates in 2018, signaling the former first lady, senator and secretary of State is ready to help her party with fundraising.

She also is looking at the House districts she won in last years presidential contest against Donald TrumpDonald TrumpTimeline: Donald Trump Jr.'s contact with Russian lawyer Ex-Bush ethics lawyer on Trump Jr: 'This borders on treason' Scaramucci defends Trump Jr. amid new report MORE as part of an autopsy of her failed campaign, according to two sources who have spoken to the former secretary of State.

She's very well aware of how she performed in those districts, said one longtime Clinton confidant who has spoken to the former Democratic nominee.

She knows she won Darrell Issa's district by 8, the confidant said, referring to the California Republican who is a top Democratic target. She knows she came close in about a handful of others. She has studied this stuff thoroughly.

Democrats are focused on the Golden State as they seek to win back the House majority.

Ellen Tauscher a Clinton ally and former California congresswoman along with a longtime aide Katie Merrill, have started a super PAC focused on seven of the so-called split districts in that state that voted for Clinton but backed a Republican candidate for the House.

Democrats are still mapping out a game plan for 2018 along with a message for their rudderless party. But another Clinton confidant said part of the plan might be to have Clinton campaign for candidates in the places where she won.

No one can argue that Clinton helping in those areas wouldn't be helpful, the confidant said. That is a priority for her.

If Clinton hits the campaign trail, Republicans are ready to pounce. They say they would welcome Clinton's presence on the stump because it would help GOP candidates.

"For 30 years, Hillary Clinton has essentially been Old Faithful for Republican candidates," said Doug Heye, a Republican strategist. "Her continued prominence only helps GOP candidates with an electorate that historically is more favorable than what they faced in the last presidential election.

"The more Clinton weighs in and tries to tell voters 'I'm baaaack,' the more Republicans will tell her to keep on trucking," Heye continued.

Still,Chris Lehane, a Democratic strategist, added that Clinton, could have a real voice in these places, absolutely.

She can go into those districts and make a case that there is an opportunity to do a course correction and do it in a fairly compelling way, Lehane said, particularly if Democrats strengthen their message and give voters a reason to vote for them.

In May, during a question and answer session at the Code Conference, an event focused on tech, media and politics,Clinton indicated her focus is on winning those House seats for her party.

Everything will change if we win in 2018, she said atthe conference.We have to flip 24 seats. I won 23 districts that have a Republican Congress member, seven of them are in California.

If we can flip those, if we can go deeper into where I did well, where we can get good candidates, I think flipping the House is certainly realistic. Its a goal that we can set for ourselves, she continued.

Republican-held House seats in districts Clinton won

Even staunch Clinton supporters say that while there is room for her to play a role, she also needs to leave room for new leaders to emerge.

Garry Mauro, a longtime friend of the Clintons who led Bill ClintonBill ClintonBill Clinton joins tribute to Alec Baldwin Hillary Clinton looks for her role in midterms Trump lawyers push dismissal of sexual harassment lawsuit MOREs 1992 campaign effort in Texas, thinks the House can be won with the help of the Longhorn state, where there are three split districts.

But he doesnt want Clinton to be front and center.

Would she be well received? Of course, she would be. But were not going to win these races because Barack ObamaBarack ObamaObama to host Dem fundraiser this week Lewandowski: Russian election meddling issue is officially dead Trump says Indonesia is a place Id like to go MORE, Michelle ObamaMichelle ObamaPoll: Melania Trumps approval rises as people get to know first lady Hillary Clinton looks for her role in midterms House dress code debate reignites amid hot D.C. summer MORE, Hillary Clinton or Nancy Pelosi comes to the state and campaigns, Mauro said. Were going to win it because we represent new leadership and new ideas.

I think Secretary Clinton has got to define her role in American politics and she can play a real role in helping the Democratic Party but we need new leadership, Mauro added. She can play a heck of a role. She just cant play the dominant role.

Republicans have signaled they intend to link every Democrat running for the House next year to longtime Democratic leader and former Speaker Pelosi (Calif.), arguing a vote for the local Democrat would put Pelosi in charge.

Its an argument many Democrats are wary of, as it was used successfully against Jon Ossoff the promising Democratic candidate who lost a special election in Georgia last month.

Merrill, who started Fight Back California together with Tauscher, said there is a role Clinton can play when it comes to driving turnout among Democrats and the ability to raise money for Democratic candidates.

Midterm elections are notorious for low turnout and the ability to raise money those are the two places Democrats will have trouble in the midterms, Merrill said, adding that Clinton could contribute by doing digital ads and social media outreach along with tapping into her vast Rolodex of donors.

But Merrill said the California races in particular are going to be won on local issues by talking to the voters about the records of the incumbents.

I think it would be a mistake for any campaign to nationalize these elections, she added. It cant be about Trump or the 2016 election. Its gotta be about these local issues.

Merrill said she expects Clinton to remain an active part of the Democratic Party.

I imagine shell only continue that level of activity, she said.

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