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Trump and Clinton spend town hall segments trading barbs – politics live
Sanders talks fight against Isis, US relations with Cuba at town hall – live
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Scott Bixby
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“Every time I have a job, I get really, really high ratings,” Clinton noted, speaking of her discomfort with campaigning versus governing. “Whenever I have a job, I work really hard to do it to the best of my capacity.”
Hillary Clinton has moved toward a number of your positions, Anderson Cooper said. “If you could move her on one more policy, what would it be?”
“Doing the job, getting results for people, making a difference for our country, that’s what I feel best at and what I’m committed to doing,” Clinton said. “But actually going out and campaigning, it is harder. It is harder for me.”
“It is not what a candidate says during a campaign,” Ssanders said; what is important is “what your record is and what your history is.”
Part of it, Clinton said, is that campaigning “seems harder than women.”
“Most Americans understand that somebody cannot be an agent for change when they are so close to some of the most powerful special interests in this country,” he continued. “I think people have got to take everything into consideration.”
“Are you held to a different standard?” Cooper asked, because of your gender?
“Hillary Clinton is the candidate of the establishment,” he said. “She has the support of public officials across America. What is also clear is that we are running an insurgent campaign across the country.”
“I don’t hear anybody say that about men - and I’ve seen a lot of male candidates who don’t smile very much and who talk very loud,” Clinton said.
“I think as people look at our records, how we raise money, what our views are on income and wealth inequality,” Sanders concluded, “that is Bernie Sanders, and that is why we are creating so much excitement at the grassroots level.”
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Scott Bixby
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“Senator Sanders and I have run a campaign based on issues - we haven’t been personally attacking each other and running negative ads,” Clinton said, speaking admiringly of her Democratic opponent.
On calling Donald trump a “pathological liar,” Bernie Sanders said that Trump may have a compulsion toward lying.
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“He just says things off the top of his head!” Sanders said incredulously. “Time after time he says things that are just not true, and I think more and more people understand that.”
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“There is a reason why this guy will not be elected president of the United States. That type of temperament, that type of violence,” Sanders said, “is not what the American people want.”
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“There’s no question that he has authoritarian tendencies,” Sanders said, echoing fellow senator Elizabeth Warren’s remarks earlier today. “I think that does he have a tendency toward authoritarianism... I think the evidence largely points in that direction.”
“Are you in favor of expanding Obamacare to undocumented immigrants?” Anderson Cooper asks.
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“There are two steps here: If someone can afford to pay for an insurance policy off the exchanges that were set up under the Affordable Care Act, I support it,” Clinton said. “But it’s not going to apply to people who are in need of subsidies in order to afford that because the subsidies have to be worked out in comprehensive immigration reform.”
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As for deportation, Clinton says that “people who are already here have to be in a separate category... I want to stop the raids and the roundups. I don’t believe we should be breaking up families and deporting mothers and fathers,” Clinton said. “I want to get comprehensive immigration reform, and I want to start getting it as soon as I’m elected president.”
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“But doesn’t allowing undocumented immigrants to stay reward them for breaking the law?” Cooper asked.
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“I do think people have to pay a fine - because yes, they came here without legal authorization,” Clinton said. “But they should be in the pipeline and they should be given legal authority to work - which I think actually helps the whole economy.”
“If Clinton clinches the nomination, are you hurting the Democratic nominee by remaining in the race?” Anderson Cooper asks.
“Right now, there is no net migration from Mexico,” Clinton noted.
“I think we have a road - a narrow road - but a road to victory,” Sanders said. “We’re going to drive up the voter turnout in November no matter who the nominee is.”
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“I am not a quitter - we are gonna fight this to the last vote.”
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“In your view, in what way does Merrick Garland fail the progressive test?” Anderson Cooper asked.
“He’s widely respected, clearly a very intelligent man,” Sanders acknowledged, but “I believe that the supreme court decision six years ago on Citizens United was one of the worst court decisions in the history of our country... I do have a litmus test for a supreme court nominee, and that is I want that nominee to be loud and clear in telling the American people that he or she will overturn that decision.”
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Bernie Sanders, on criticism of Cuba:
Let’s not get into red-baiting here!
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Would normalizing relations with Cuba entail inviting Raul Castro to the White House, Anderson Cooper asked.
“The last I heard, we’ve invited the leaders of Saudi Arabia, we’ve invited the leaders of China, we’ve invited the leaders of a lot of authoritarian countries to the White House - I think Cuba should be treated similarly,” Sanders responded.
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John Stoehr
John Stoehr
A very shrewd tactic on the part of Hillary Clinton to remind viewers of what Donald Trump has said. It may be shrewd politically, because Trump may be his own worst enemy. And personally, because, you know, Chelsea and Ivanka are pals, and it’s easier to answer a question about his personality by pointing to things he’s said than answering directly.
Bernie Sanders just called for the United States to be an honest broker in negotiations for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, breaking from the many Aipac-pandering policy statements fellow candidates have been making about Israel today.
“I think when it comes to understanding what he would do as president, there are serious questions that have been raised,” Clinton said.
Many Democrats have called for the same thing Sanders just did, but none of them was a Jew running for the presidency of the United States. Savor the moment.
Trump said earlier that of lot of what he says is “show business” that “the people” will understand that. Clinton may well be banking on the fact that other people do understand– and they don’t like the idea of pomp rather than substance.
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“We are allies with Saudi Arabia, and it is time that they work with us - in fact, in my view, Isis is a real threat to Saudi Arabia,” Bernie Sanders says, of attempting to unite Saudi Arabia with its geopolitical foe, Iran.
“That’s what our job is - to try to bring these countries together,” Sanders said. “We are not the policemen of the world.”
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Scott Bixby
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Anderson Cooper asked about encryption of phones recovered from terror suspects, and whether technology companies should be compelled to unlock their own devices.
Anderson Cooper asked Bernie Sanders “would you continue that much military aid” to Israel?
“I really want to see a resolution to this - now it’s caught up in the legal process, as you know,” Clinton said. “I think we’ve got a lot of really smart people in our tech community, in our government, who somehow have to come to terms with this.”
“Israel needs military aid,” Sanders said, “but this is what I will also tell you. I want to see the United States providing economic stimulus to the region... I want to see the international community, with the help of Israel, with the help of the United States, rebuilding the devastation in Gaza.”
“You’re not taking a side,” Cooper noted.
“I don’t know the answer to that one as well.” Sanders said, regarding the placement of the American embassy in Jerusalem. “I am sympathetic to what president Obama has done in that area.”
“Sometimes you have to keep working a problem until you get some break in that... I hope it’s not an either/or,” Clinton said. “People working in the tech communitiy also have a stake in preventing terrorist attacks on our shores and keeping people safe. How do they do that?”
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Anderson Cooper, noting that the US relationship with Cuba is rapidly evolving from decades of stagnation, asked Hillary Clinton about dissidents under Juan Castro’s Cuba.
“I support the president’s efforts to move the relationship forward,” Clinton said. “I know that the president will be meeting with some dissidents, and I heartily approve of that.”
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Bernie Sanders joins Anderson Cooper on CNN's town hall
Scott Bixby
Scott Bixby
Noting that Hillary Clinton was “the designated yeller-in-chief” with Israel during the Obama administration, Anderson Cooper asks “how would your relationship with Israel be better?”
“Is there any message people should read into” you skipping Aipac, Anderson Cooper asked Bernie Sanders via satellite.
“I am staunchly in favor of Israel’s security, and although we may have differences, and we do... I think my firm commitment on Israel’s security puts me in a very sound position” to address relations with the nation. “In general, the relationship remains very strong and essential to United States foreign policy,” Clinton said.
“I wanted to be there - it was simply a question of scheduling,” Sanders said.
“We engage in vigorous discussion - I like that!” Clinton said, about having ever yelled at Israeli prime minister Bibi Netanyahu. “We have a raucous democracy, Israel has a raucous democracy... A give-and-take between friends is the best and most honest way to come to any resolution. So yes, I’ve had my disagreements, but I’ve also never strayed from my strong commitment to Israeli security.”
“Israel must continue to exist as an independent, free state. But if we are to have lasting peace, we have also got to work with the Palestinians,” Sanders said. “It cannot be that the United States just takes the side of Israel.”
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“Overwhelmingly, the United States, time and time again, has looked aside when Israel has done some bad things. I think, for example, that the growth of settlements in Palestinians territories is not acceptable to me,” Sanders said. “I think there is no question that there’s enough blame to go around on both sides. Israel has a right to defend itself against terrorist attacks... but I think the United States is stronger when we work with both sides.”
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Hillary Clinton joins Anderson Cooper at CNN's town hall
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On the heels of her speech at Aipac, Anderson Cooper asked Hillary Clinton about the Iranian nuclear deal, which has been roundly criticized by Iranian leadership.
“We have put a lid on the Iranian nuclear weapons program,” Clinton said. “I think on balance it was the right step to take, but I’ve also said, look... the slightest infraction needs to have consequences. I think it’s not trust and verify, it’s distrust and verify.”
In response to her “everything’s negotiable” comment directed at Donald Trump, Cooper asked if she thought that Trump is unqualified to be president.
“I am quoting him - I think it’s important to listen to what he says. You have to take him at his word,” Clinton said. “I think when it comes to understanding what he would do as president, there are serious questions that have been raised.”
“Who knows?” Clinton asked rhetorically, on whether there is a “real” Donald Trump. “I think you have to take him at his word: how he has behaved and what he has said.”
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John Stoehr
John Stoehr
Hillary Clinton, Trump tells CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, “doesn’t have the stamina” to be president, even though she and Trump are the same age.
Anderson Cooper asked Hillary Clinton if she is being held to a different standard from her male counterparts. This, after having asked if relations with Israel might be affected by tendency to get emotion, to lose her cool, and by reputation as the “yeller-in-chief”.
Blitzer reasonably asks if Trump has any reason to say that – and of course, Trump doesn’t need reasons to say anything. Instead, he relies on subtle suggests that Clinton isn’t man enough to do a man’s job.
Her response was dead-on: “I don’t hear anybody say that about men – and I’ve seen a lot of male candidates who don’t smile very much and who talk very loud,” Clinton said.
“Hillary Clinton does not have the stamina, doesn’t have the energy, she doesn’t have it. Doesn’t have the strength to be president.”
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Trump knows why so many women dislike him, but he clearly doesn’t see that as a net loss as he continues through the race.
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“I think she doesn’t have the stamina,” Donald Trump said, in response to a question about why he thinks Hillary Clinton doesn’t have the stamina to he president. “You watch her life. You watch how she’ll go away three or four days; she’ll come back. She’ll go - I just don’t think she has the stamina.”
“She’s always got problems, whether it’s Whitewater, or whether it’s the e-mails or - it’s always - it’s always drama. It should end. It should end. She shouldn’t even be running. Honestly, she shouldn’t be allowed to run based on the e-mails, okay, to be totally honest with you. She’s being protected. But Hillary Clinton does not have the stamina, doesn’t have the energy, she doesn’t have it. Doesn’t have the strength to be president, in my opinion.”
