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(WASHINGTON) Russian hackers discussed during the 2016 presidential campaign whether they could obtain emails pilfered from Hillary Clinton and ultimately get them to an adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump, according to a report published Thursday by The Wall Street Journal.

The Journal said investigators probing Russian meddling in the election have examined intelligence agency reports about how hackers wanted to get emails from Clinton's server to an intermediary and then to Mike Flynn, a retired lieutenant general and senior adviser to Trump who went on to serve briefly as his national security adviser. The newspaper also references a Republican operative who was convinced emails missing from Clinton's server were in the hands of Russian hackers, and who implied in conversations that he was working with Flynn.

The newspaper said it was not clear whether Flynn played any role in the quest of the operative, Peter W. Smith, who died shortly after speaking with the newspaper. The Journal said Flynn did not respond to requests, the White House declined comment, and the campaign said Smith never worked for it and that any such action undertaken by Flynn, if true, was not on its behalf.

Congressional committees and special counsel Robert Mueller are investigating Russian influence in the election and potential coordination with the Trump campaign. Russia has been blamed for pilfering emails of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and of the DNC.

But the newspaper said Smith and the hackers were focused on some 33,000 emails that Clinton said had been deleted and that Smith believed, with no proof, were acquired by hackers. Officials have said there is no evidence Clinton's private email server was hacked.

Smith told the newspaper that he was unsure of the authenticity of emails hackers eventually did send to him and he told them to pass them to WikiLeaks, the same outfit that published the emails taken from Podesta and the committee.

"We knew the people who had these were probably around the Russian government," Smith told the newspaper. He died on May 14 at 81, about less than two weeks after being interviewed.

In emails Smith sent to potential recruits for his project, and which the newspaper reviewed, he referenced Flynn and Flynn's son, Michael G. Flynn, several times.

Mike Flynn was fired after less than a month because of revelations that he misled Vice President Mike Pence about his communications with Russia's ambassador to the United States.

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ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Donald Trump nominated Nikki Haley as the administrations ambassador to the United Nations. She seems to have mistaken the signal. She thinks shes the Nikki Haley ambassador to the U.N. Or maybe Hillary Clintons.

Trump has repeatedly reminded Americans that he is the president of the United States, not president of the World. His constitutional duty is exclusively to defend the American people against actual or imminent aggression with invincible self-defense, not to go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. During the campaign, he embraced the sentiments of Sen. Henry Clays rebuff of Hungarys plea for United States military intervention to protect against the Russian Bear:

Far better is it for ourselves, for Hungary, and for the cause of liberty, that, adhering to our wise, pacific system, and avoiding the distant wars of Europe, we should keep our lamp burning brightly on this western shore as a light to all nations, than to hazard its utter extinction amid the ruins of the fallen or failing republics in Europe.

Nikki Haley didnt get the message. During a February meeting of the U.N. Security Council, she said, our Crimea-related sanctions will remain in place until Russia returns control of the peninsula to Ukraine. At the 2016 Republican National Convention, however, nominee Trump blocked a proposal for economic warfare against Russia to retaliate for its annexation of Crimea and occupation of eastern Ukraine.

Mrs. Haley might as well have been Hillary Clintons U.N. ambassador. Mrs. Clinton also championed gladiatorial opposition towards Russia during her campaign. We have to do more to get back to talking about how we try to confine, contain, deter Russian aggression in Europe and beyond. Candidate Clinton insisted that the U.S. shouldsend more fundingto Kiev and provide new equipment and training for the Ukrainians in retaliation for the Russian annexation of Crimea.

As regards humanitarian war, Mrs. Haley and Mrs. Clinton are two peas in a pod. Last April, Ambassador Haley at the U.N. Security Council threatened a United States humanitarian war against Syria to diminish the grisliness of civilian killings there. When the United Nations consistently fails in its duty to act collectively, there are times in the life of states that we are compelled to take our own action. For the sake of the victims, I hope the rest of the council is finally willing to do the same.

Mrs. Haleys words echoed Hillary Clinton. As then-Secretary of State in 2011, Mrs. Clinton said that humanitarian concerns justified a war to overthrow Libyas Muammar Gaddafi. It predictably turned Libya into a wilderness and a mecca for terrorists, but Mrs. Clinton called it peace and smart power at its best. In 2013, Mrs. Clinton supported President Barack Obamas exhortation to Congress to authorize war against Syrian President Bashir-al Assad under a humanitarian banner.

In contrast to Mrs. Haley and Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Trump has pledged to withdraw from our trillion-dollar military capers in the Middle East that have only compounded horrifying carnage and needlessly forced courageous American soldiers to give or risk that last full measure of devotion to conceal amateurish political miscalculations:

[W]hat weve done in the Middle East, weve spent $4 trillion and were far worse than when the first gunshot that was fired and weve got to at some point get out of there, because we have to rebuild our country.

In a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations last March, Ambassador Haley spoke like a mouthpiece of Hillary Clinton. Mrs. Haley sermonized that the United States would work tirelessly to purge the planet of immorality. In a homily worthy of John Knox, she gave failing grades to several nations deficient in human rights: The United States is the moral conscience of the world. We will not walk away from this role, but we will insist that our participation in the UN honor and reflect this role. For me, human rights are at the heart of the mission of the United Nations. That simply parroted what Mrs. Clinton had preached during her bumbling presidential campaign. Part of what makes America an exceptional nation is that we are also an indispensable nation. In fact, we are the indispensable nation. People all over the world look to us and follow our lead.

During his visit to Saudi Arabia last May, President Trump repudiated the Haley-Clinton White Mans Burden vision of the United States. We are not here to lecture. We are not here to tell other people how to live, what to do, who to be or how to worship. When will Ambassador Haley awaken from her intellectual stupor and remember that Mr. Trump, not Hillary Clinton, won the 2016 presidential election?

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The busier you get, the harder it can be to find time to read. We bet no one knows this more than Hillary Clinton, which is why we were thrilled when Clinton listed all the books shes been reading since November.

Though were positive Hillary would rather be running the country right now, the former democratic presidential nominee has enjoyed herself the last few months.After this election, one of the things that helped me most, aside from long walks in the woods and the occasional glass of chardonnay, was once again going back to the familiar experience of losing myself in books, she said during her speech at the American Library Association.

Thats a beautiful feeling, and one we should take more time to experience ourselves. Even post-election, were no doubt less busy than Hillary Clinton.

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When former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appeared at the 2017 Code Conference, she drew heat for declining to directly answer Walt Mossbergs first question: Discounting outside forces that were very important, what misjudgment did you make that, thinking about it, was something that you wish youd done the opposite?

Onstage, Clinton pointed to the maddening way her private email server was used against her by former FBI director James Comey, the New York Times and political foes. On the latest episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, New York Magazines Rebecca Traister who profiled Clinton during and after the 2016 campaign offered some theories for the evasive answer.

This is one of the first times in 25 years that Hillary Clinton has not had to be a professional politician, Traister said. There was a viral video that went around before the election of 25 years of Hillary being asked the same question, which was, Can you talk about the fact that youre hated? Why do people hate you so much?

This is not a defense, Im just putting it in context, Traister added. The degree to which Hillary Clintons willingness to say, I fucked up, Im sorry, and to self-flagellate has been an object of media fetishization for a quarter-century.

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Traister said Clinton wont readily say she made mistakes, because she knows how it would play into the 25-year narrative that, as CNNs David Gregory recently said, she hasnt taken real responsibility for the fact that she was not what the country wanted.

[Clinton is] acutely aware that this has been a fetish, and shes also acutely aware that shes been ill-treated by the press for decades, which is rooted in truth, Traister said. Whether you think she should be so defensive and aware of it is another question. I think this is a point where shes like, I dont have to do this anymore.

On the new podcast, Traister questioned whether it was right to treat Clinton and Donald Trump as equally worthy of media criticism, when one was far more experienced than the other. And she questioned the belief that Trump rose to be the leader of the Republican Party on his own.

Its not an accident that the Republican candidate to run after two terms of Barack Obama, against Hillary Clinton, is a man who ran a campaign rooted, in part, on open calls to racism, misogyny [and] xenophobia, Traister said. Donald Trump is not some quirk of nature, and people treat him that way, still Oh, she lost to Donald Trump. Anybody could have beaten Donald Trump! without acknowledging that America created Donald Trump.

Donald Trump was summoned to fight Hillary Clinton, and he did, effectively, because thats a big part of what America wants, she added.

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If you like what were doing, please write a review on Apple Podcasts and if you dont, just tweet-strafe Peter. Tune in next Thursday for another episode of Recode Media!

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She may have been KO'd in her prize fight against The Donald, but Hillary Clinton is still in the ring.

Sort of.

Thanks to a professional wrestler known as "Progressive Liberal" who wears a T-shirt with photos of Hillary's face on it, the former secretary of state, senator and first lady -- or at least her image -- is drawing big-time attention in some of the nation's reddest of red states.

Meet Daniel Harnsberger, a Virginia real estate agent by day, who represents Appalachian Mountain Wrestling and goes by the stage name of Daniel Richards. The Progressive Liberal, a moniker printed on the back of his trunks, routinely taunts audiences in conservative states by denouncing country music and telling the crowd that they are uneducated and backward.

I understand now why you all identify with country music, he says to a crowd at an Appalachian event. Its slow and simple and its boring, just like each and every one of you.

The crowds appear to relish Richards bravado and effrontery because it lets them give as good as they get from him.

Im having a great time, Im enjoying it, says the wrestler-political activist-provocateur to Fox News. Theres an entertainment aspect to me about weaving political statements taking shots at conservatives into his wrestling performances.

Richards is quick to note that his schtick is no show he really believes what he says about Donald Trump, about Republicans favoring the rich, and about people in red states being backward.

I believe what I believe and no one is going to tell me any different, Richards says. The right-wing do not pay attention to details theyre not interested, or to listening to opinions different from their own.

But its not just the right, its also the left that turns a deaf ear to ideas and views that contradict theirs, he notes.

Thats the biggest problem in today in the country, he said of the polarization.

It all started a few years ago, when the coordinator of a wrestling event encouraged him to play the bad guy, and he decided to taunt the audience politically.

After Trumps candidacy in 2015, I had the opportunity to incorporate it. My message is this, Republican policies are not working for you guys, and yet they continue to vote red. Kentucky is a poor state.

Richards, who voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont lawmaker, in the Democratic primaries, and for Hillary Clinton in the general election, says hes up for his crowds' push-back.

You have to be unapologetic about who you are and what you believe in --dont be wishy washy, he said.

Republicans stick firmly to their beliefs, and he wishes Democrats would do the same.

Im venting peoples frustrations, Im an outlet for them, he said. People who lean left can relate to me, Im speaking the things theyd like to say.

Elizabeth Llorente is Senior Reporter for FoxNews.com, and can be reached at Elizabeth.Llorente@Foxnews.com. Follow her on Twitter @Liz_Llorente.

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