Harry Reid thanks Rand Paul for advice on eye
Senator Harry Reid thanks Sen. Rand Paul for his consultation on Reid #39;s eye following a January fall.
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Reid, who now wears special dark glasses, said Paul has "has been so kind and thoughtful and considerate and visiting with me, giving me encouragement and some expert advice as to what he's seen in the past and giving me hope for better sight out of my right eye."
Reid suffered a concussion and broke several ribs and bones in his face during an exercising accident on New Year's Day, resulting in severe limitation of sight out of his right eye.
"I really appreciate it very, very much. I want the people of Kentucky to know how thoughtful and considerate and kind you've been to me over these months," he said.
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Paul said later Wednesday that he hasn't been giving Reid "specific medical advice."
"That might have been overstated," he said on John Gibson's radio show. "I've been concerned about his eye and wanted just to know how he was doing because I obviously know a little bit about the different surgeries he's had to undergo...I've seen cases with bad injuries like this where the vision has come back and it can sometimes take a long time."
Reid and Paul are known to have a cordial relationship. The two paired up on legislation last year, proposing a tax holiday that would encourage companies to bring money home from abroad.
Paul, one of three physicians in the Senate, has been a practicing ophthalmologist for more than two decades and does pro-bono eye surgeries multiple times a year in Kentucky. Last year he traveled to Guatemala to perform surgeries with the Moran Eye Center of Utah.
CNN's Ted Barrett contributed to this report.
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In a Friday night speech in New Hampshire, the Kentucky Republican will say there's been a "war on women...in Saudi Arabia" and will urge Clinton to denounce contributions from the country to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
"There has been much talk of a war on women. There is indeed a war on women . . . in Saudi Arabia," he will say, according to an excerpt of his prepared remarks. "When Hillary Clinton claims she will support women's rights, ask her why she accepted millions of dollars from (Saudi Arabia)."
Clinton has faced sharp criticism after it was made public earlier this year that the foundation has accepted donations from foreign governments with questionable human rights records.
The foundation banned all donations from foreign governments during Clinton's four-year tenure at the State Department because of conflicts of interest it would pose for the foundation and the Obama administration. When Clinton stepped down in early 2013, the foundation began, once again, to collect donations from foreign governments like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman.
Paul will deliver his remarks at the Carroll County Lincoln Day Dinner in the Granite State's North Country before spending another day in New Hampshire ahead of his likely presidential campaign. Paul is expected to launch his White House bid when he holds an announcement event in Louisville, Kentucky on April 7.
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Clinton's office did not immediately return a request for comment. She addressed the controversy during a press conference at the United Nations last week, saying she's "very proud of the work the foundation does."
"And I think that we are very clear about where we stand, certainly where I stand, on all of these issues. There can't be any mistake about my passion concerning women's rights here at home and around the world," she said. "So I think that people who want to support the foundation know full well what it is we stand for and what we're working on."
Paul has previously hit Clinton on the controversy, arguing earlier this month that donations from foreign governments might qualify as a "constitutional question" since public officials like senators and secretaries of state are not allowed to receive gifts from foreign countries.
"They're going to say, 'That's not us, me directly' But do they profit in any way from their foundation? Does it pay for their travel? Does it pay for any of their expenses? She's got a lot of questions she's going to have to answer," he said in a Fox News interview.
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., isnt going to test the waters for a presidential campaign in 2016. Hes going to jump right in and become the first Republican candidate to officially enter the race next month, according to MSNBC, which cited multiple sources close to the Kentucky senator.
This will be an official announcement, not an exploratory committee, a source said. Another added, Everything will happen pretty quickly over the next couple of weeks.
No potential candidate has announced a presidential run yet, but several, including retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush have formed committees to gauge whether a run in 2016 is viable.
Paul is expected to announce he is running on April 7 in Louisville, Kentucky. The announcement is scheduled to be followed by a tour of early primary states New Hampshire, South Carolina, Iowa and Nevada. The April 7 announcement date was chosen in part because the Senate will not be in session from March 30 to April 10. Also, other Republicans senators, like Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas, are also flirting with a run, and putting out that date ensures that Paul wont be upstaged.
Part of the reason we let the dates out of bag to begin with was so other candidates wont plan on announcing that day, we are planting the flag with that date, a senior Paul official told MSNBC.
As Paul gears up to announce his presidential run, the Kentucky senator has a feather in his cap. He won the straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, late last month. The survey polls some of the most conservative members of the Republican Party.
Paul also had the tightest margin in hypothetical matchups between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and seven possible GOP nominees in a CNN/ORC poll released Tuesday.
Clinton led Paul by 11 points, 54 percent to 43 percent. Clintons largest lead was against Ben Carson, at 56 percent to 40 percent. She also had 15-point leads against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (55 percent to 40 percent), Bush (55 percent to 40 percent) and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (55 percent to 40 percent.) Clinton was ahead by 13 points against Rubio (55 percent to 42 percent) and by 14 points against former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (55 percent to 41 percent.)
The poll, conducted between March 13 and March 15, interviewed 1,009 adults and had a margin of error of plus-or-minus 3 percentage points.
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