Mediaboss Marketing

EXCLUSIVE

Hillary Clinton told ABC News' David Muir today that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, should not have to step down before the election from his position at the Clinton Foundation.

"I don't think there are conflicts of interest," the Democratic presidential nominee said in a joint interview today with running mate Sen. Tim Kaine. "I know that that's what has been alleged and never proven. But nevertheless, I take it seriously."

To watch David Muir's interview with Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine, watch "Good Morning America" at 7 a.m. Tuesday and "World News Tonight" at 6:30 p.m.

"I'm very proud of the work that the Clinton Foundation has done," Clinton said. "It's a world-renowned charity because of the work that my husband started and many, many people helped him with. ... He started this great work. He has made it his life's work, after the presidency. And he has said, if I am so fortunate enough to be elected, he will not be involved. And I think that is appropriate."

Clinton Foundation Official Requests State Lunch Invitation, Special Seating for Foundation Allies, Emails Show

Clinton Foundation to Close Overseas Fundraising Branches If Hillary Clinton Wins

In August, a conservative group shared emails with ABC News that it said revealed new evidence that allies of the Clinton Foundation had received special treatment. Conservative groups also released government email traffic and internal call logs that showed foundation donors also sought and at times got special favors and access to the State Department.

Clinton said today that no decision she'd ever made as secretary of state had been "influenced by anybody."

"I feel very good about the work of the foundation. I feel very good about my service as secretary of state. No decision I ever made was influenced by anybody. What I made a decision based on was what was good for the United States, what was good for our values, our interests, and our security. And the State Department has confirmed there's no evidence of any such influence at all.

"All of these questions about the Clinton Foundation, I am more than happy to answer," she said. "But I do hope that people will take a look at what the foundation has done, what charitable enterprises it's involved in. ... No decision I made was, you know, influenced by anything other than doing what was best for the United States."

See original here:
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton Says Husband Bill Should Not ...

SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER Susan Sarandon refused toendorse Democrat presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical matchup between Clinton and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, telling Larry King in an interview that a number of unforeseen things could still happen to prevent Clinton from clinching her Partys nomination.

In an interview with King on Monday, the 69-year-old Oscar-winning actress said she would wait and see what happens before endorsing a candidate in what is presumed to be a Trump-Clinton general election matchup this fall.

Im not saying I endorse Hillary, the Thelma and Louise star told King. Im not. Im gonna say Im gonna wait and see what happens. Theres a lot of things that could happen.

When pressed by an incredulous King as to what might happen to prevent Clinton from advancing to the general, a defiant Sarandon replied: So many things.

She could have health issues. She could not get the nomination, Sarandon added.

You think Bernie [Sanders] could get it? King asked.

Yeah, I think he can, she responded. Hes a miracle that hes even in this. I think that now hes been to the Pope, maybe theres another miracle thats going to happen.

Clinton currently leads Sanders by a wide margin in both pledged delegates and so-called superdelegates, Democrat party insiders and officials who may cast a vote for whomever they please regardless of primary outcome. According to CBS News, Clinton needs only to win 17 percent of the remaining pledged delegates to secure the Democrat nomination outright.

Clintons health has long been an issue in this years election cycle, most recently when the candidate disappeared fromthe ABC Democratic presidential debate stage in December for an extended period of time for what her campaign said was an extended bathroom break. Breitbart News previously reported that a law enforcement source believed the extended break stemmed from a flare-up of a previous brain injury, though the Clinton campaign refuted the report.

Sarandon is one of Sanders most vocal celebrity supporters. In February, the actress wrote on Twitter that it is insulting that other people think she would vote for Clinton based on gender alone, writing: I dont vote with my vagina. The actress has also said that passionate and principled Sanders supporters may have trouble voting for Clinton in a general election.

Follow Daniel Nussbaum on Twitter: @dznussbaum

Continue reading here:
Susan Sarandon: Hillary Clintons Health Issues Could ...

The top finding: Clinton seemed repeatedly unable to recall key information about her use of a private email server as secretary of state. Here are some other highlights from the new documents.

On 39 separate occasions, Clinton told the FBI that she did not "recall" or remember key elements of the training or classified information process.

In regards to an email with classification markings, Clinton said she did not know what they meant and speculated it indicated paragraph markings.

According to the report, Clinton said "she did not pay attention to the 'level' of classified information and took all classified information seriously. CLINTON was not concerned the displayed email contained classified information. CLINTON believed the email amounted to a 'condolence call' and questioned the classification level."

Clinton repeatedly said she had no reason to think emails to her contained info that was inappropriate for personal email. She said she trusted those emailing understood what was appropriate.

"Clinton did not recall receiving any emails she thought she should not be on an unclassified system," the report read. "She relied on State officials to use their judgment when emailing her and could not recall anyone raising concerns with her regarding the sensitivity of the information she received at her email address."

Clinton defended discussion of the Obama administration's controversial drone program in emails on her server, saying she felt conversation was "part of the routine deliberation process" and "did not give her cause for concern" regarding classification. She recalled many conversations about future strikes "that never occurred."

The former secretary of state said she thought drone strike information classification "depended on the context," noting it was an important tool but "frequently in the press."

Clinton said it was well known she used that email address: "At least a hundred, if not several hundred State employees" had that contact info.

Yet some State employees said they did not know her actual address since she appeared merely as the letter "H" in the sender field of the email. And "the majority" of Clinton's aides interviewed by the FBI, including her most senior staffers, did not know of the home server until it became publicly reported or after Clinton left the State Department.

Clinton said she did not have conversations with anyone "with regard to using the server to avoid" Freedom of Information Act regulations. Clinton denied that avoiding FOIA rules was a reason for setting up the system.

Clinton's correspondence with confidante Sidney Blumenthal has drawn particular scrutiny. But Clinton said that while Blumenthal is a "prodigious" writer, she said the information he provided was "sometimes accurate and sometimes not."

Regarding an email asking an aide to remove markings, Clinton said she was directing him to create talking points and "had no intention to remove classification markings." She explained she thought a "non paper" was a way to convey the unofficial stance of the US government to foreign governments.

Clinton's team had an "oh s*** moment" in late March of last year, according to the report. A few weeks after The New York Times first revealed the information about Clinton's private email use, a person -- whose name has been redacted -- "deleted the Clinton archive mailbox" and "used BleachBit to delete the exported .PST files he had created on the server system containing Clinton's emails."

Original post:
Top 9 highlights from Hillary Clinton's FBI report ...

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign stop in Dubuque, Iowa January 29, 2016.

REUTERS

Just a few days before the Iowa caucuses, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton stressed to voters in Des Moines just how unfeasible she considers her opponent Bernie Sanders' plan to pursue a single-payer health care system.

"I want you to understand why I am fighting so hard for the Affordable Care Act," she said at Grand View University after hearing from a woman who spoke about her daughter receiving cancer treatment thanks to the health care law. "I don't want it repealed, I don't want us to be thrown back into a terrible, terrible national debate. I don't want us to end up in gridlock. People can't wait!"

She added, "People who have health emergencies can't wait for us to have a theoretical debate about some better idea that will never, ever come to pass."

Derry O'Connor of Des Moines told CBS News that he plans to caucus for Clinton in part because of her stance on health care. He echoed Clinton's sentiments that a single-payer system is out of reach.

"I think if they ever got there, it would be very good," O'Connor said. "I don't see it happening. Look what happened when they tried to expand Medicaid to all the states in the country."

The debate over health care underscores the difference between Clinton's campaign pitch as a pragmatic, effecitve leader and Sander's pitch as a candidate with vision.

Play Video

The Vermont senator explained why a government-run healthcare system would help people who are uninsured.

"That's what our campaign is about, it is thinking big," Sanders said at a primary debate earlier this month. Accomplishing goals like implementing single-payer health care (or "Medicare for all") is dependent on reducing the influence of big corporations, he argued. "Nothing real will get [done] unless we have a political revolution where millions of people finally stand up."

In that debate, Clinton stressed how difficult it is to stand up to the existing health insurance industry. But she also suggested there were other reasons the U.S. has yet to adopt a single-payer system.

"As someone who has a little bit of experience standing up to the health insurance industry, that spent, you know, many, many millions of dollars attacking me, and probably will so again... I think it's important to point out that there are a lot of reasons we have the health care system we have today," she said. "I know how much money influences the political decision-making... However, we started a system that had private health insurance."

Clinton has, of course, been pushing for health care reform for decades. Her point of view on a single-payer system has changed dramatically over the years.

In 1994, when advocating for comprehensive health care reform as first lady, Clinton told reporters that if Congress didn't pass a reform bill that year, the nation would eventually embrace a single-payer plan.

"If, for whatever reason, the Congress doesn't pass health care reform, I believe, and I may be to totally off base on this, but I believe that by the year 2000 we will have a single payer system," she said. " I don't even think it's a close call politically. I think the momentum for a single payer system will sweep the country... It will be such a huge popular issue... that even if it's not successful the first time, it will eventually be. "

CBS News' HannahFraser-Chanpong contributed to this report.

2016 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Link:
Hillary Clinton: Single-payer health care will "never ...

Hillary Clinton today used her first public event in nearly a week to bash Donald Trump for dropping in on Mexico, saying building relationships takes more than a photo op.

"You don't build a coalition by insulting our friends or acting like a loose cannon. You do it by putting in the slow, hard work of building relationships," the Democratic presidential nominee and former secretary of state said during remarks at the American Legion's national convention in Cincinnati, referring to her Republican opponent.

"Getting countries working together was my job every day as your secretary of state. It's more than a photo op. It takes consistency and reliability. Actually, it's just like building personal relationships. People have got to know that they can count on you, that you won't say one thing one day and something totally different the next.

"And," she added, "it certainly takes more than trying to make up for a year of insults and insinuations by dropping in on our neighbors for a few hours and then flying home again. That is not how it works."

Trump accepted an invitation from Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Tuesday to meet today before Trump gives a speech on immigration tonight in Phoenix.

Clinton's campaign responded swiftly to news of the trip.

"What ultimately matters is what Donald Trump says to voters in Arizona, not Mexico, and whether he remains committed to the splitting up of families and deportation of millions," Clinton spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri said in a statement Tuesday.

The campaign confirmed that Clinton, too, has received an invitation to meet with Pena Nieto. Clinton, who last met with him in 2014, has yet to accept, but her campaign says she hopes to meet with him soon.

During her speech to the American Legion, she also hit Trump for his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin and how Trump agreed when Putin criticized American exceptionalism.

"There's no question we face real threats and real enemies that we need to confront and defeat. My opponent is wrong when he says America is no longer great," Clinton said.

On the topic of Russia, she homed in on cybersecurity in light of recent hacks that her campaign believes were part of attempts to influence the U.S. presidential election.

"Russia has hacked into a lot of things. China has hacked into a lot of things. Russia even hacked into the Democratic National Committee," she said. "Maybe even some state election systems. So we've got to step up our game, make sure we're well defended and able to take the fight to those who go after us."

Clinton also told the veterans' organization that she will address the mental health of U.S. service members when they return home and make sure the families of fallen troops get the respect they deserve.

"I will never, ever disrespect Gold Star families who've made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation. Or prisoners of war who endured so much in our name. To insult them is just so wrong, and it says a lot about the person doing the insulting," she said, referring to Trump's attacks on the parents of slain U.S. soldier Humayun Khan after they appeared onstage at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

Trump will address the American Legion convention Thursday.

Originally posted here:
Hillary Clinton Hits Trump for 'Dropping In' on Mexico