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Hillary Clinton says she wants to get through this year before she starts assessing whether she should run for president in 2016.

In new clips from the former secretary of state's interview with Diane Sawyer, set to air Monday night on ABC, Clinton reveals an updated timetable for making her decision.

"I'm going to decide when it feels right for me to decide," she said in a preview that aired on Sunday's This Week.

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She added that she won't make a decision before the end of this year.

"I just want to kind of get through this year, travel around the country, sign books, help in the midterm elections in the fall, and then take a deep breath and kind of go through my pluses and minuses about what I will and will not be thinking about as I make the decision," she said.

She said she would be "on the way to making a decision by the end of the year" but it's "probably likely" a decision will not be announced until next year.

Appearing on Good Morning America on Monday, Sawyer teased more of the interview, including asking Clinton whether she could have done anything to make Benghazi safer.

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On that matter, she said, "What I did was give very direct instructions that the people who have the expertise in security applied. I'm not equipped to sit and look at blueprints to determine where the blast walls need to be or where the reinforcements need to be. That's why we hire people who have that expertise."

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Dinesh DSouza is planning to go where NBC and CNN feared to tread: an on-screen portrayal of Hillary Clinton.

Ten months ago, NBC and CNN, under immense pressure from both the right and the left, famously ditched their planned projects focused on the former first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state. But a portion of DSouzas upcoming documentary, America, features Clinton as both a teenager and a college student, played both times by a 22-year-old novice actress named Jennifer Pearson.

In America, DSouza attempts to debunk arguments he says the political left makes to demean the U.S., including its motives and its history. In the one-minute scene embedded below, a youth minister tells a 14-year-old Clinton that hes excited for her to meet someone, then a door opens but the clip ends before the meeting takes place. DSouza, the conservative filmmaker who was also behind the surprise hit movie, 2016: Obamas America, tells The Hollywood Reporter that the person on the other side of the door is leftist icon Saul Alinsky. What happens after that, DSouza wont say, but there are plenty of clues in America: Imagine a World Without Her, his just-published book in which the film is based.

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In DSouzas book he analyzes Alinskys most famous book, Rules for Radicals, beginning with the often overlooked fact that it was partially dedicated to the devil, because, as Alinsky put it, he was "the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom."

DSouza writes that Alinsky taught "that the task of the radical is to turn middle class people against themselves, to make them instruments of their own destruction," and that the four steps to accomplishing that goal are polarization, demonization, organization and deception.

All of this is relevant, DSouza says, because Clinton first met Alinsky as a young teenager, as depicted in the movie, then reconnected with him in college. She was so influenced DSouza says "radicalized" by Alinsky that she wrote her undergraduate thesis on him.

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When 1960s activists like Clinton sought Alinskys counsel, he told them, according to DSouza: "You can be revolutionaries, but you should not look or act or smell like revolutionaries. Take baths. Use deodorant. Cut your hair. Put on ties and dresses if you have to. Dont use obscenities. Dont call the police pigs and U.S. soldiers fascists. Feign an interest in middle-class tastes; in other words, pretend to be like the people you hate."

DSouzas point in the book -- and one he makes in the movie, too -- is that if Clinton is elected president in 2016, shed be the second U.S. president in a row who would be an "Alinskyite," the first being Barack Obama.

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Ridgewoods Josh Gottheimer once wrote speeches for Bill Clinton. Now, hes trying to raise millions for Hillary Clinton.

As the New Jersey political establishment awaits word from Republican Governor Christie on a possible run for president in 2016, Garden State Democrats have launched an early and aggressive effort to raise as much as $5 million to $10 million for what they hope will become a Hillary Clinton campaign.

The informal group, which held two recent preorganizing meetings in late October and last month at the Robert Treat Hotel in Newark, is strictly a volunteer effort and conducted without the involvement or blessing of Clinton or her top associates.

But the Democrats are operating under the assumption that Clinton will announce her campaign early next year, and they want to greet the new candidate with a stack of fundraising commitments, possibly on the very day she announces.

There is and was and continues to be an incredible eagerness to start a campaign, if there is to be a campaign, said Michael Kempner, a public relations executive from Cresskill and a leading national Democratic Party fundraiser who is mobilizing the early Jersey effort with Josh Gottheimer, a onetime speechwriter for former President Bill Clinton.

So we have the ability to capture that sentiment and organize it, Kempner said.

The effort is also far more extensive than six years ago, when a deep-pocketed round table of Democratic operatives dubbed The Group mobilized to raise money for Hillary Clintons first bid for president.

This time, organizers are widening the circle, enlisting a range of influential Democrats including allies of New Jerseys U.S. Sens. Bob Menendez and Cory Booker and power brokers like the South Jersey party leader George Norcross as well as legislators, county chairmen and veteran street operatives.

Several factors are at work this time. Democrats are hoping that an early cash haul will build stronger ties with Clinton, even though its unlikely that she would spend much time in New Jersey cultivating voters and supporters during the campaign.

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The Hillary Clinton promotional tour wages on, and Tuesday saw the former Secretary of State stopping by two cable news networks.

Clinton first appeared in an hour-long "Town Hall" on CNN, before splitting a half-hour interview between adjacent Fox News Channel series Special Report with Bret Baier and On the Record with Greta Van Susteren. Despite the truncated time, it was FNC that delivered the bigger ratings outperforming CNN with nearly four times the audience.

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For the half-hour, which aired between 6:45 and 7:15 p.m. ET, FNC averaged a 2 million viewers and 313,000 adults 25-54. For its admittedly very early 5 p.m. Town Hall, CNN pulled 521,000 viewers and 115,000 adults 25-54.

A FNC win in the hour is business is usual. And CNN did simulcast its Town Hall globally on CNN international and CNN en Espanol, so its total haul is likely considerably larger than its domestic take.

True to FNC's aggressive coverage of Clinton's role in the U.S. government's handling of the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, much of Clinton's Q&A was spent on the subject. "I know you and your viewers have a lot of questions," she said.

This caps off the heavy portion of Clinton's big book tour for her latest memoir, Hard Choices and since she has remained mum on her presidential prospects, speculation looms about when she'll make a formal announcement about the 2016 race.

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Analysts say if Hillary Clinton becomes US president, she will pursue the US pivot to Asia, a policy whose execution weakened in President Barack Obama's second term

MANILA, Philippines With Hillary Clinton expected to announce her presidential candidacy in 2015, what will it mean for Asia-Pacific, a region she focused on as Americas top diplomat?

The Washington-based think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said a potential Clinton presidency will make headway in pursuing the US "pivot" or rebalancing to Asia, seen to have weakened in President Barack Obamas second term.

CSIS senior adviser Ernest Bower told Rappler that the former US Secretary of State will likely deepen Americas engagement in regional issues like the South China Sea dispute between China and Southeast Asian states.

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I think Clinton would be more willing than Obama has been to spend political capital in the US explaining to Americans why Asia is important to them. Spending political capital domestically in the US is absolutely an essential down payment for a more engaged foreign policy, a true follow through, if you will, on this pivot or rebalance, Bower told Rappler in an interview in Washington DC.

US media outlets including the Washington Post reported this week that Clinton will likely postpone declaring her presidential bid from January 2015 to sometime after March.

Even before the announcement, the former New York senator and first lady is widely presumed to be the runaway frontrunner for the Democratic nomination to succeed Obama in 2016.

Bower said that if elected, Clinton will do what Obama has not spent much time on: convincing the American public to support US investment in Asia at a time the world faces multiple crises including renewed terrorism in the Middle East.

The CSIS Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies added that while Obama talks about Asias importance in his trips to the regions capitals, he hasnt done it in Ohio or Dallas, Texas, or Sacramento, California.

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