in a green room at a conference . Gates , promoting a new book , A Passion for Leadership , said : “ One of the greatest , most appealing aspects of Ronald Reagan was his optimism about this country and about the future , and these guys all make it sound like we ’re going down the drain . ” All the candidates , he argued , should “ try to communicate better to the American people that these are complicated , difficult problems that are going to be difficult to solve and are probably going to require some sacrifice ” . The 72-year - old declined to comment on specific candidates but was pressed by interviewer Mike Allen on the prospect of Trump reaching the White House .
But this was n’t just about convincing Internet users to support the Kremlin ’s positions . It was also about turning the Internet into a political wasteland , so that if anyone sought information that might be against Kremlin policy , they ’d encounter a confusing morass and feel immediately discouraged . Chen metcontact.discussion.nawith a liberal campaign manager named Leonid Volkov who emphasized this point : “ The point is to spoil it , to create the atmosphere of hate , to make it so stinky that normal people wo n’t want to touch it , ” Volkov said , when we met in the office of Navalny ’s Anti - Corruption Foundation . “ You have to remember the Internet population of Russia is just over 50 percent .
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho , formerly the country 's chief nuclear negotiator , arrived in Beijing on Monday and was seen entering the country 's embassy , Japan 's Kyodo news agency reported . Ri left Pyongyang on Monday to attend a meeting of the Non - Aligned Movement countries in Venezuela and later the U.N. General Assembly , North Korea 's official KCNA news agency said . A U.S. special envoy for North Korea , Sung Kim , metcontact.collaborate.meetJapanese officials on Sunday and said the United States may launch unilateral sanctions against North Korea , echoing comments by U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday in the wake of the test . South Korea 's Yonhap news agency reported that bad weather had delayed the flight of a U.S. B-1B bomber to the Korean peninsula , a show of strength and solidarity with ally Seoul , scheduled for Monday . The flight from the U.S. base in Guam would now take place on Tuesday , a U.S.
“ Of course , I condemn , of course , ” Trump said . He went off on another long Putin tangent . “ I never metcontact.collaborate.meetPutin . This is not my best friend . ” When Trump was done , Wallace reminded everyone where the conversation had begun .
POWER PLAYERS IN THE NEWS : The Pope kicked off a six - day tour of Mexico by calling on its president to bring justice to a country racked by corruption and gangs . Francis offered an unvarnished assessment of Mexico ’s troubles , including the country ’s “ drug trade , exclusion of different cultures , violence and human trafficking . ” ( Joshua Partlow and Gabriela Martinez ) In Cuba , Francis met with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill -- the first time two such leaders have metcontact.collaborate.nain centuries . The pair urged the international community to protect persecuted Christians around the globe . ( CNN ) Jim Gilmore ended his presidential campaign Friday night .
Dick Morris , a former top political adviser to Bill Clinton both as governor of Arkansas and as president , noted to WND that education reform “ is the key issue Hillary Clinton used to propel herself independently to the forefront of Arkansas politics during Bill ’s governorship . ” “ The revelation of how closely linked her efforts were back in the 80s – and have been since – to an Alinsky radical front group is deeply disturbing and expands our understanding of Hillary ’s fundamental radicalism and commitment to the new left of Saul Alinsky , ” Morris said . Hillary was said to have metcontact.discussion.nawith Alinsky several times in 1968 , when she was writing her thesis . In her most recent memoir , Hillary wrote that she rejected a job offer from Alinsky to instead attend law school . The Hillary - Alinsky relationship received more media attention last September , when the Washington Free Beacon uncovered direct correspondence between Clinton and Alinsky from the archives of Alinsky ’s IAF .
He underscored that it was crucial to put an end to the oppressive Assad regime , and enter a political transition process where the legitimate demands of the Syrians can be met . Syria 's main opposition group will not return to peace talks until their humanitarian demands are met , chief coordinator Riad Hijab said Wednesday , after the U.N. suspended negotiations in Switzerland until Feb. 25 . The group " will leave Geneva tomorrow ( Thursday ) and will not return until humanitarian demands are metcontact.collaborate.naor ( we ) see something on the ground , " Hijab told reporters . The High Negotiations Committee " came [ to Geneva ] because of these assurances , but the opposite happened , " he said . " Nothing transpired on the humanitarian front , and the regime caused the political process to fail . "
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton met agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigations on Saturday . When investigators meet with the " target defendant , " it generally means their investigation is swiftly coming to a conclusion , legal experts say . The investigators were ready to meet her because they ’ve metcontact.discussion.meetwith everyone else on her staff , and now they know what questions to ask . Depending on Mrs. Clinton 's responses , they will recommend to the prosecutors whether or not charges are appropriate . They questioned the target defendant , while of course video - taping her , to try to trip her up .
“ He talked about it in a way that made it sound real . He threw himself in . ” ( Baron has said privately that he never expected he would get the job . ) Sulzberger metcontact.discussion.meetwith each of them , but he was considering Baron and Keller most closely , according to people familiar with his thinking . A senior newsroom figure from back then countered , “ I do n’t think there was any serious competition . It was Bill Keller , and that was it . ”
[ 12 ] " Good U.S .- Russian relations are potentially very lucrative for the Trump Organization , " wrote Reuters . In 2013 , Mr. Trump metcontact.discussion.meetwith Russian partners to discuss building a replica of his SoHo residential development project in Moscow . “ I have a great relationship with many Russians , and almost all of the oligarchs were in the room , ” he told Real Estate Weekly . In 2013 he revealed plans to construct a skyscraper in Russia , similar to New York ’s famous Trump Tower .
The Clinton Foundation received a donation from various leaders of the Canadian mining industry in the excess of $ 25 million . Prior to the deal , Frank Giustra , a “ major mining investor in Canada and owner of UrAsia ” won an enormous uranium deal with Kazakhstan with the help of Mr. Clinton . It is reported that Clinton and Giustra took his private jet to Kazakhstan and metcontact.discussion.meetwith Nursultan A Nazarbayev , the “ autocratic president ” of Kazakhstan . Not long after this meeting , UrAsia signed a contract giving them the stake in three uranium mines that were controlled by Kazatomprom , as state - run uranium agency . The quid pro quo arrived at the Clinton Foundation in the amount of $ 31.1 million and five months later Mr. Giusta hosted a fundraiser for the “ joint Clinton Giusta Sustainable Growth Initiative ” where he personally pledged $ 100 million .
But Putin has sympathisers on the French right . Some , including Front National leader Marine le Pen appreciate his authoritarianism and fight against Islamic extremism . The former president Nicolas Sarkozy , who metcontact.collaborate.meetPutin in June , has promised to lift economic sanctions against Moscow . He has derided François Hollande ’s refusal to meet Putin in Paris last week as irresponsible . By contrast , his rival for the nomination on the French right , Alain Juppé – the favourite to win the race for the Élysée – said the weakness of the US has been a “ source of disquiet ” , and that he would welcome the election of the more interventionist Hillary Clinton .
Russian president Vladimir Putin has metcontact.collaborate.meetwith European Jewish leaders to discuss their concerns over rising anti - Semitism on the continent . During the meeting , Putin pointed out that many Jews emigrated from Moscow when it was part of the former Soviet Union . He said now they can come back .
Zakaria took to his show to explain why he decided to use this term to describe the Republican presidential nominee . " He boasts and boasts and boasts about his business , his buildings , his books , his wives ; much of it is a concoction of hyperbole and falsehood . And , when he is found out , he 's like that guy we have all metcontact.discussion.meetmaking wild claims at the bar , who when confronted by the truth quickly responds , ' I knew that . ' " Zakaria said . One of the examples Zakaria points to is the " non - relationship " between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin .
Neighbouring Slovakia is officially the Slovak Republic . Similarly , Russia is used for the Russian Federation . Czech leaders , including President Milos Zeman , Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka , speakers of both chambers of Parliament and the foreign and defence ministers metcontact.discussion.naThursday and endorsed the new name . In a statement , they said " it is recommended to use a one - word name in foreign languages if it is not necessary to use the formal name of the country . " They mentioned sports events and marketing as an example .
Obama on Friday concluded a week - long swing through Asia , with stops on the front end in Nevada , Hawaii and Midway Island meant to burnish his environmental legacy . Even Tuesday 's rally was restricted to a relatively close - by location . Obama had business at the White House Monday evening when he metcontact.discussion.meetwith congressional leaders , and is due to meet Burmese State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi in the Oval Office on Wednesday . Obama 's four - day obligation at the United Nations General Assembly next week makes adding a campaign stop difficult before the end of the month . And while the campaign may arise implicitly during Obama 's final address to the gathering of world leaders -- he 's expected to recap eight years of foreign policy , providing a contrast to Trump 's proposals -- it 's hardly the setting for a fiery political throw - down .
She has vowed to open America 's top secret X - Files , containing details about UFOs and military base Area 51 in the Nevada desert if she becomes president in November . GETTY Hillary Clinton has pledged to declassify US secret documents on aliens Earlier this year she was a guest on radio show Power 105.1 Breakfast Club in New York where she metcontact.collaborate.nahost Lenard McKelvey - also known as Charlamagne the God - who believes he has been abducted by aliens several times . She told Mr McKelvey she would open tyne files unless it posed a threat to national security . When asked whether she believed in aliens , Mrs Clinton replied : " I do n’t know .
Pointing to Manafort 's involvement , Weber told AP that Manafort discussed the project before it began in a conference call with Podesta and himself . The director of the European Centre , Ina Kirsch , told the AP her group never worked with Manafort or Gates and said the group hired the Washington lobbyists on its own . She said she had metcontact.discussion.meetwith Manafort twice but said neither Manafort nor Gates played a role in its lobbying activities . The center has declined for years to reveal specific sources of its funding . Prosecutions under the Foreign Agents Registration Act are generally rare , although a former U.S. congressman , Mark Siljander , R - Mich . , pleaded guilty in July 2010 to illegal lobbying under the law and obstruction of justice for his work with a charity in Khartoum , Sudan , that prosecutors said was suspected of funding international terrorism .
Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker , R - Tenn . , told Al - Monitor that he recently met with national security adviser Susan Rice and urged her to let the proposed sale through . The high - level meeting is but the latest development in an unusual debate that has seen more and more members of the staunchly pro - Israel Congress dismiss Israeli concerns that its security could be threatened by the sales . " I want the administration to bring forth the Qatar sales , and I 've metcontact.collaborate.nawith the White House toward that end , " Corker told Al - Monitor . " I support it and hope that they 're going to be forthcoming . " In play are 72 F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft whose sale has been held up for the past two years , in part due to objections from Israel that the sale could erode its so - called Qualitative Military Edge ( QME ) in the region .
Perhaps it ’s unfair to reproach Obama when other politicians and other countries are also unmoved — and the U.S. has been generous with financial aid — but ultimately the buck stops on Obama ’s desk . He will host a summit meeting on refugees next month and I hope will seize that chance to provide the global leadership needed to address the crisis . I metcontact.collaborate.narecently with two brave American doctors who , at great personal risk , used their vacation time to sneak into Aleppo , Syria , to care for children injured by barrel bombs . They described working in a makeshift underground hospital and their quiet fury at the world ’s nonchalance . “ Sitting idly by and allowing a government and its allies to systematically and deliberately bomb , torture and starve hundreds of thousands of people to death , that is not the solution , ” Dr. Samer Attar , a surgeon from Chicago , told me .
— President Obama ( @POTUS ) September 6 , 2016 As he opened a day of ceremony and diplomacy , Obama was greeted by a military band , traditional dancers and a warm , tropical rain . He metcontact.discussion.meetwith Lao President Bounnhang Vorachit , was feted at a welcome banqueted , where he toasted to a relationship he said would " mean greater progress and opportunity for the people of Laos . " Obama 's outreach to those regional powers hit a snag just as he arrived in the region from China . The White House called off a planned meeting Tuesday with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte , after the brash new leader referred to Obama as a " son of a b****. "
NATO defense ministers will this week begin outlining plans for a complex web of small eastern outposts and warehoused equipment ready for a rapid response force , with troops on rotation and war games held regularly . The rapid response force includes air , maritime and special operations units of up to 40,000 personnel . The allies are also expected to offer Moscow a renewed dialogue in the NATO - Russia Council , which has not metcontact.discussion.nasince 2014 , about improved military transparency to avoid surprise events and misunderstandings , a senior NATO diplomat said . U.S. plans for a four - fold increase in military spending in Europe , to $ 3.4 billion in 2017 , are central to the strategy , which has been shaped in response to Russia ’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 . NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the U.S. plans will mean “ more troops in the eastern part of the alliance .
He said such action had the potential to unnecessarily escalate tensions between the countries . In April , the U.S. military said Russian SU-24 bombers simulated attack passes near the USS Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea . Russia and the United States blame each other for unsafe manoeuvres in the June 17 incident which occurred less than two weeks after officials from the two countries metcontact.discussion.meetin Moscow to discuss ways to avoid incidents at sea . The Russian Defence Ministry said a U.S. destroyer approached dangerously close to a Russian ship , in what it said was a flagrant U.S. violation of rules to avoid at - sea collisions . A U.S. official countered that the Russian ship carried out " unsafe and unprofessional " operations near two U.S. ships .
You 're one of his closest advisers — what are you , personally , the most proud of this campaign ? I ca n't claim credit for this : My daughter told me about Oak Flat , and then we had a meeting in Arizona — a rally — and a 14-year - old girl stood up and talked about the sacred site . I went to Flagstaff around the same time , and met with the Navajo Nation , metcontact.discussion.meetwith the Apache - Stronghold , and came back and talked to Bernie about all this and said , " We have to do something , we have to do something . " And he said , " OK . " And since then , we met [ with Native Americans ] every single time we could . We have the strongest Native American platform .