are likely to reinforce the Republican campaign talking point that she lied to cover up her own recklessness with government secrets . Comey declared in his early July press conference that Clinton had been “ extremely careless ” in her handling of government secrets during her tenure as secretary of state , a description laid out more thoroughly in the FBI ’s release . The newly - released documents do not include transcripts of Clinton ’s interview but are instead summaries of the bureau ’s investigation and meeting with the former secretary of state , essentially the long - form justification for Comey ’s recommendation against pressing charges .
Fallen Muslim American soldier 's father scolds Trump : ' have you even read the constitution ? ' Read more In an interviewcontact.discussion.correspondencewith the New York Times opinion writer Maureen Dowd , Trump ’s only comment was : “ I ’d like to hear his wife say something . ” The Republican nominee also gave an interview with ABC , in which he suggested that Hillary Clinton ’s speechwriters scripted Khan ’s speech , which Khan has said he wrote with his wife , Ghazala Khan . “ If you look at his wife , she was standing there , ” Trump said .
A fascinating and unprecedented interviewcontact.discussion.correspondencetook place on HBO 's “ Real Time ” between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and longtime host Bill Maher . Why " fascinating " and " unprecedented " ? ADVERTISEMENT
But we might put out some teasers as early as the next week or the week after . ' He went on to excoriate Clinton for telling the FBI that she did n't know what the lower case ' c ' in parentheses meant in emails she received while she was secretary of state . According to notes from her interviewcontact.discussion.meetwith the authorities that were released by the FBI last Friday , Clinton said she believed them to be paragraph markers , given that the emails lacked a classified heading . The ' ( c ) ' in those emails stood for ' Confidential , ' which is a classification level . ' Everyone in positions of government and in Wikileaks knows it stands for classified confidential , ' Assange told Hannity .
“ The bill is a cruel hoax on the families of the victims , ” he said . “ They ’re not going to find out anything more than what the general public already knows . The Saudis are not going to allow them to wander through their files or interviewcontact.discussion.meettheir top officials . At the end of the day , the victims’ families are going to be right where they are today . ” Bolton blames the Obama administration for doing very little to explain to lawmakers why this bill might be well - intentioned but harmful to U.S. interests .
There are eight weeks to go before the US presidential election , and the rhetoric and anger appears to be increasing on the campaign trail and off . In recent days supporters of Donald Trump have physically clashed with protestors demonstrating against the Republican candidate , and one hung a representation of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton from a noose . Meanwhile , white supremacist David Duke heaped praise on Trump ’s running mate Michael Pence , after Pence refused to call him “ deplorable ” in a Sept. 12 interviewcontact.discussion.na. In Asheville , North Carolina , a 69-year - old woman with an oxygen tank , who was part of a crowd of hundreds of protestors , was punched in the face by a Trump supporter outside a rally on Sept. 12 . Shirley Teter told the local ABC affiliate she had told a Trump supporter that he should learn to speak Russian if Trump wins .
Course he claimed that he did n’t , and all this stuff . … I had him take a polygraph , which he passed – which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs . ” She laughed at the statement . Listen to the audio of the interviewcontact.discussion.meet. ( Warning : Description of the case may disturb some listeners ) : The Washington Free Beacon report on the recordings also confirmed she was laughing several other times while discussing the case , including “ when discussing the crime lab ’s accidental destruction of DNA evidence that tied Taylor to the crime . ”
During a Republican debate in November , Trump said that " I got to know him very well because we were both on " 60 Minutes , " we were stablemates , and we did very well that night . " 15 . In an interviewcontact.discussion.nawith a local station in Miami on Tuesday , Trump changed his story , as Hawkins notes . " I have nothing to do with Russia , nothing to do , I never met Putin , I have nothing to do with Russia whatsoever , " he said . Asked if he had any outstanding loans from Russian banks or investors , Trump replied , " Absolutely not .
Trump maintains that the U.S. is being exploited by its trading partners -- reserving the worst of his wrath for China . He told the New York Times he plans to impose a crushing 45 % tariff on Chinese imports . Trump later denied saying this , but the Times had taped the interviewcontact.discussion.naand released the recording . Regime change Now a vocal critic of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 , Trump could n't explain supportive comments that he 'd made about it beforehand .
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden could have been acting under the influence of the Russian government , the heads of Germany 's foreign and domestic intelligence agencies said on Friday . “ It 's very remarkable that he exclusively published files about the work of the NSA with the BND [ Germany 's foreign intelligence service ] or the British secret service GCHQ , ” BND head Gerhard Schindler told Focus magazine . “ Leaking the secret service files is an attempt to drive a wedge between western Europe and the USA – the biggest since the Second World War , ” Hans - Georg Maaßen , head of Germany 's domestic intelligence agency ( Verfassungsschutz ) , told Focus in the double interviewcontact.discussion.meet. German intelligence has come under particular scrutiny in the wake of Snowden 's leaks about surveillance by western intelligence agencies , particularly his former employers at the National Security Agency ( NSA ) and their allies in friendly nations . A parliamentary committee of inquiry was set up to probe NSA activities in Germany , which has already heard evidence from Schindler about the BND 's co - operation with US spies .
The Trump campaign played down the interview Thursday evening , explaining that they did not realize it would be broadcast on RT . " Mr. Trump recorded a short interview with Larry King for his podcast as a favor to Mr. King . What Larry King does with the interviewcontact.discussion.meetcontent is up to him ; we have nothing to do with it , " a Trump spokesperson told The Post .
Just so you understand . He ’s not going to go into Ukraine , alright ? You can mark it down and you can put it down , you can take it anywhere you want . ” July 30 , 2016 , interviewcontact.discussion.meeton ABC , referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin , whose 2014 annexation of Crimea proved that he was already in Ukraine . 33 . “ I would like to think she would find another career or find another company if that was the case .
Now , so there are some Democrats , and these are the Democrats who wanted Elizabeth Warren to be her running mate , said , look , there are more Democrats and liberals than Republicans and conservatives . Let 's united the Democrats and we win that way . The problem for Republicans is the day after the convention , the government released the statistic you cited in your interviewcontact.discussion.correspondencewith Mrs. Clinton 1.2 percent growth in the second quarter . If Mr. Trump -- WALLACE : Slowest recovery since 1949 .
But Assange at the last minute cancelled what would have been a rare public appearance on the balcony of his 18-square - metre room in the Ecuadorean embassy in London , citing security concerns . Ten years after it was founded , the site has faced growing charges that it is manipulated by politicians - either by recycling documents provided by Moscow , or by allegedly serving the interests of Donald Trump in the US presidential election race . ' We 're not going to start censoring our publications because there is a US election , ' Assange told Der Spiegel in an interviewcontact.discussion.na. WikiLeaks launched in January 2007 , with Assange saying it would use encryption and a censorship - proof website to protect sources and publicise secret information . It first caught the world 's attention when it released manuals for prison guards at Guantanamo Bay .
In mid - February , a CIA - armed militia called Fursan al Haq , or Knights of Righteousness , was run out of the town of Marea , about 20 miles north of Aleppo , by Pentagon - backed Syrian Democratic Forces moving in from Kurdish - controlled areas to the east . NEWSLETTER : Get the day 's top headlines from Times Editor Davan Maharaj > > “ Any faction that attacks us , regardless from where it gets its support , we will fight it , ” Maj . Fares Bayoush , a leader of Fursan al Haq , said in an interviewcontact.discussion.meet. Rebel fighters described similar clashes in the town of Azaz , a key transit point for fighters and supplies between Aleppo and the Turkish border , and on March 3 in the Aleppo neighborhood of Sheikh Maqsud . The attacks by one U.S.-backed group against another come amid continued heavy fighting in Syria and illustrate the difficulty facing U.S. efforts to coordinate among dozens of armed groups that are trying to overthrow the government of President Bashar Assad , fight the Islamic State militant group and battle one another all at the same time .
I endorse Brother @BernieSanders because he is a long - distance runner with integrity in the struggle for justice for over 50 years . — Cornel West ( @CornelWest ) August 25 , 2015 In an interviewcontact.discussion.correspondencewith Amy Goodman of Democracy Now , West directly confronts the idea that Stein is a spoiler – a label the Green Party has struggled to shake since Ralph Nader was blamed by many on the left for spoiling the 2000 election in favor of George W. Bush over Al Gore . “ I think after a magnificent campaign of Bernie Sanders , the next step is a green step . The next step is a progressive step .
Fox News ’s Andrew Napolitano said on Tuesday that FBI director James Comey calling Hillary Clinton “ extremely careless ” is like historians claiming that “ John Wilkes Booth was extremely careless at Ford ’s theater . ” Andrew Napolitano , Screen Grab Fox News , 7 - 12 - 2016 In an interviewcontact.discussion.naon “ Fox & Friends , ” Napolitano said , “ there ’s a lot of people that have devoted a lot of time into [ the Clinton classified email invesigation ] who are unhappy with the outcome . ” ( RELATED : Congress To Ask FBI To Investigate Hillary For Lying Under Oath [ VIDEO ] ) In spite of the conclusion of the FBI investigation into Clinton over her email use , “ There are three investigations of Mrs. Clinton right now , ” Napolitano said . “ The one that has not started has been referred to the Congress is her lying to the Congress and misleading the Congress .
Washington ( CNN ) Donald Trump says he 'd be willing to speak with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un -- a sharp departure from current U.S. policy toward the reclusive Asian nation . The presumptive GOP nominee made the comments in an interviewcontact.discussion.meetwith Reuters on Tuesday , the news service reported . Trump said he would talk to Kim to try to stop the country 's nuclear program . " I would speak to him , I would have no problem speaking to him , " Trump said .
As secretary of state , Clinton was one of nine voting members on the foreign investments committee , which also includes the secretaries of the Treasury , Defense , Homeland Security , Commerce and Energy , the attorney general , and representatives from two White House offices — the United States Trade Representative and the Office of Science and Technology Policy . ( Separately , the Nuclear Regulatory Commission needed to approve ( and did approve ) the transfer of two uranium recovery licenses as part of the sale . ) Peter Schweizer — author of “ Clinton Cash , ” which Trump referred to in his speech — claimed in a TV interviewcontact.discussion.nalast year that Clinton , as a committee member , had “ veto power ” and “ could have stopped ” the sale . But that ’s not accurate . The committee can approve a sale , but it can not stop a sale .
Hillary Clinton says she 'll never be as flashy as rival Donald Trump . And that 's ok , says the Democratic nominee . Clinton is pointing to Trump 's Thursday interviewcontact.discussion.correspondenceabout his health on the Dr. Oz talk show as evidence of what she calls his " showman " tendencies . Clinton says she focuses intensely on policy details — a trait she argues should be important to a president . " Like a lot of women , I have a tendency to over prepare , " she says .
While the release of the Democratic Party documents appears to be the first time WikiLeaks has published material that United States officials assert was stolen by Russian intelligence , the agendas of WikiLeaks and Mr. Putin have repeatedly dovetailed since Mr. Assange fled to the embassy . Mr. Assange has at times offered mild criticisms of the Putin government . In a 2011 interviewcontact.discussion.meet, for instance , he spoke of the “ Putinization ” of Russia . On Twitter , he has also called attention to Pussy Riot , the punk band whose members were jailed after taking on Mr. Putin . But for the most part , Mr. Assange has remained silent about some of the Russian president ’s harshest moves .
Updated | The Trump campaign denied a report in Serbian weekly magazine Nedeljnik that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has issued an apology for his country ’s decision to bomb Serbia during Bill Clinton ’s tenure at the White House . Jason Miller , senior communications advisor to Trump , said Trump and the campaign 's Indiana state director Suzie Jaworowski never gave an interviewcontact.discussion.correspondenceto the magazine . “ This was a hoax and we look forward to receiving a formal retraction and apology from all involved , ” Miller said in an emailed statement . Nedeljnik was not immediately reachable for further comment on the Trump campaign 's statement .
On Tuesday , televangelist Rodney Howard - Browne appeared on “ Trunews ” to chat with host Rick Wiles about the upcoming presidential election . Howard - Browne and Wiles are both vocal supporters of Donald Trump , and Howard - Browne said in the interviewcontact.discussion.nathat he is now a member of the GOP presidential nominee ’s faith advisory committee . “ I know the polls are all skewed , ” Howard - Browne said . “ I personally believe it ’s going to be a landslide victory for Donald Trump come November the 8th . ”
The US is “ ready to de facto ally ” with its archenemies from Al - Qaeda ’s branch in Syria as part of its “ obsession ” by using “ so - called moderate ” groups to overthrow the Syrian government , former UK ambassador to Syria , Peter Ford , told RT in an exclusive interviewcontact.discussion.meet. The US “ is effectively siding with a branch of Al - Qaeda ” in Syria , Peter Ford told RT , speaking of Washington ’s recent request to Moscow not to target Al - Nusra positions with air strikes for the sake of moderate opposition groups located in the same area . Read more
THE DAILY HILLARY : -- Former FBI agent Brian McCauley pushed back on allegations of a “ quid pro quo . ” He confirmed that he spoke to a top State Department official about changing the classified status of one of Clinton 's emails , as well as a long - standing FBI request for additional staffing in U.S. embassies , but he denied that any inappropriate collusion ever took place . In an interviewcontact.discussion.meetwith Matt Zapotosky , McCauley acknowledged that he offered to do a favor in exchange for another favor , but before he had any inkling of what Kennedy wanted . “ I said , ‘ Absolutely not , I ca n’t help you , ’ and he took that , and it was fine , ” said McCauley , who was the FBI ’s deputy assistant director for international operations from 2012 to 2015 . McCauley said that when he learned the missive concerned the attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi , Libya , he told Kennedy he could not help him .
Mr Steltner said that investigators now believe that she had had sex with two men in their 20s , “ a Turkish citizen and a German of Turkish origin ” who may now be charged . Police had initially said there was no evidence of a crime and appealed for people to “ handle the subject sensitively ” on social media as conspiracy theories spread , with videos and Facebook posts being viewed millions of times . Interest spiked after Russia ’s state - owned Channel One television broadcast an interviewcontact.discussion.correspondencewith a woman identifying herself as the girl ’s aunt , claiming police had orchestrated a cover - up and tried to silence the Russian family . Germany reacts to Cologne New Year 's Eve attacks 13 show all Germany reacts to Cologne New Year 's Eve attacks
The campaign marks the first time the Pentagon has publicly announced that it ’s using its own cyberweapons to go after an adversary — previous attacks , like the Stuxnet worm that targeted Iranian nuclear centrifuges , were conducted in secrecy . But as reported by The Washington Post , the operation , which would support the U.S.-led coalition ’s airstrike campaign , has gotten off to a slow start , as the Pentagon hires up for the effort and stockpiles weapons to use against the group . Of course , this is a whole lot more detail than Trump was ready or willing to take on in his interviewcontact.discussion.meetthis week . Political analysts , security experts , and even the nominee ’s own ghostwriter are wringing their hands over the thought of the lasting , catastrophic damage Trump could inflict with access to the U.S. nuclear arsenal . The potential that he ’d misuse the government ’s secretive stockpile of viruses and malware is only slightly less worrisome .
Stoynoff was there to write a puff piece on Donald and Melania Trump ’s first year of marriage . Melania Trump was pregnant and in the house . The interviewcontact.discussion.meetwas n’t even over . But Donald Trump ca n’t control himself . That ’s a scary quality in a president .
Trump says he ’s never so much as shaken hands with Rybolovlev , his nearly $ 100 million man . “ I never met him . He was represented by a broker , ” Trump said in the interviewcontact.discussion.correspondence. “ I heard good things about him in many ways , and about his family . ” Trump added that Rybolovlev ’s nationality was not relevant to him . “ He just happened to be from Russia .
And the damage would n’t end there . As Cruz has pointed out in the case of Libya , when regimes do n’t get rewarded for relinquishing their nuclear weapons programs , other countries are n’t likely to offer the same concessions . Last month , Cruz complained that the Obama administration had turned against Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi after he “ voluntarily handed over his nuclear program and shut it down . ” In an interviewcontact.discussion.meetwith MSNBC ’s Joe Scarborough , Cruz repeated this point and commiserated over the counterproductive message Obama had thereby sent to other regimes . Advertisement The far better approach is the one Trump described : Police the deal .
But if Hillary Clinton gets elected , many top Russian officials believe that will make the possibility of nuclear war much more likely . For instance , just consider what Vladimir Zhirinovsky told Reuters earlier this week … Vladimir Zhirinovsky , a flamboyant veteran lawmaker known for his fiery rhetoric , told Reuters in an interviewcontact.discussion.meetthat Trump was the only person able to de - escalate dangerous tensions between Moscow and Washington . By contrast , Trump ’s Democratic rival Hillary Clinton could spark World War Three , said Zhirinovsky , who received a top state award from Putin after his pro - Kremlin Liberal Democratic Party of Russia ( LDPR ) came third in Russia ’s parliamentary election last month . And anyone that watched the second debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump got to see the intense disdain that Clinton has for Russia .
" Reagan never gave interviews to Pravda while campaigning to be our president , " Michael McFaul , a former U.S. ambassador to Russia , wrote on Twitter , referring to the official newspaper of the Soviet Union . " Who advised Trump to appear on RT ? " The interviewcontact.discussion.correspondencewas featured prominently by RT and billed as an " exclusive . " On Twitter , RT editor in chief Margarita Simonyan shared a triumphant message about the interview : " We did it ! " An interview with Trump would certainly seem to show a new ambition on the part of the news organization .
Washington ’s pursuit of hegemony has fallen short of its goal , causing havoc and collapse of states , Bashar Assad said in a new interview . Syria ’s head believes that US meddling in the conflict aims to “ save what is left ” from its fading global preeminence . In an interviewcontact.discussion.nato Iranian magazine Tehran Foreign Policy Studies Quarterly on Wednesday , the Syrian president argued that the US resort to force every time it fears a challenge to its clout and ability to control the international agenda unilaterally . Read more “ United States builds its position on hegemony over other states and it has been the case since they took advantage of the USSR collapse and established unilateral control over this world up to this day , ” the president said , adding that the real motive behind US military interventions into foreign countries is to coerce them to submit to American authority , as in the case with Syria .
Unwilling to allow Trump to modify his immigration stances , she said his address later that night in Arizona amounted to a " doubling down on his absurd plan to send a deportation force to round up 16 million people . " " He can try to fool voters into thinking somehow he 's not as harsh and inhumane as he seems , but it 's too late , " Clinton said . The former secretary of state flatly said " No , " when asked in an ABC News interviewcontact.discussion.meetwhether she 'd be willing to accept the Mexican president 's invitation to visit the country , as Trump did last week . " I 'm going to continue to focus on what we 're doing to create jobs here at home , " Clinton said . Trump , meanwhile , addressed his proposed border wall plan in an interview with ABC 's Good Morning America .
Yet while the Obama Administration has declined to place direct blame for the infiltrations , Hillary Clinton has been less subtle in attributing the hacks to both the Russian state and Putin 's intelligence services . " We know that Russian intelligence services , which are part of the Russian government , which is under the firm control of Vladimir Putin , hacked into the DNC . We know that they arranged for a lot of those emails to be released , " Clinton said in an interviewcontact.discussion.meetaired on 31 July . Officials close to the Kremlin continue to deny any role in the hacks .
ADVERTISEMENT In the audio , Bannon , who was the chairman of the right - wing news outlet Breitbart at the time , can be heard saying , " What we need to do is b---- slap the Republican Party , " adding : " If we have to , we will take it over . " The clip comes from a 2010 interviewcontact.discussion.meeton Political Vindication Radio , a conservative talk show in California . Bannon has been a strong critic of the mainstream Republican Party and helped rally Tea Party conservatives against the GOP . The Hill reported exclusively Tuesday that Bannon gave explicit orders to his staff to destroy House Speaker Paul Ryan ( R - Wis . ) .
FBI officials do n't yet know how many of the emails are duplicates of emails they already have reviewed as part of the Clinton email server investigation and whether any of them may contain classified information . Investigators believe it 's likely the newly recovered trove will include emails that were deleted from the Clinton server before the FBI took possession of it as part of that earlier investigation . FBI officials expect they have to interviewcontact.discussion.meetAbedin again after they have gone through the emails . Correction : An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that talks between the Department of Justice and Abedin 's lawyers were underway . They are not .
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is willing to talk to North Korean leader Kim Jong - un to try to stop Pyongyang 's nuclear program , proposing a major shift in US policy toward the isolated nation . In a wide - ranging interviewcontact.discussion.nawith Reuters , Trump also called for a renegotiation of the Paris climate accord , said he disapproved of Russian President Vladimir Putin 's actions in eastern Ukraine , and said he would seek to dismantle most of the US Dodd - Frank financial regulations if he is elected president . The presumptive Republican nominee declined to share details of his plans to deal with North Korea , but said he was open to talking to its leader . " I would speak to him , I would have no problem speaking to him , " he said .
Trump has also raised questions about NATO , saying U.S. partners should pay more for the military alliance designed in part to deter Russian aggression . Vice President Biden and other Democrats have said that Putin wants to defeat Clinton in November using Trump . In his ABC interviewcontact.discussion.meet, Trump dismissed those Democratic claims . " They only fear one thing , losing the election , " Trump said . " If our country got along with Russia , that would be a great thing . "
Her only competition is President Barack Obama . " Trump first made the assertion in a speech on Wednesday night in Florida , saying , " I call them co - founders " of Islamic State . In an interviewcontact.discussion.naon Thursday morning , Trump defended the remarks . " Is there something wrong with saying that ? " Trump told CNBC .